June 2013, no. 352
Welcome to the June issue of ABR – another highly varied one. Emma McEwin – Douglas Mawson’s great-granddaughter – writes about Mawson’s ‘iron gut’ and his fellow Antarctic explorers’ dietary habits, including a queasy penchant for ‘penguins on horseback’. Miriam Cosic reviews the Coetzee–Auster correspondence, and Pascall Prize-winner Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews Lionel Shriver’s new novel. Brian McFarlane is underwhelmed by Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby. Opera is a major theme this month. World-renowned conductor Jeffrey Tate is intrigued by the controversial new biography of Benjamin Britten, and Peter Rose writes about three productions in Melbourne.
Full Contents
New Zealand
The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature edited by Jane Stafford and Mark Williams
Letter Collections
Here and Now: Letters, 2008–2011 by Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee & Distant Intimacy: A Friendship in the Age of the Internet by Frederic Raphael and Joseph Epstein
by Miriam Cosic
Literary Studies
Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist by Brigitta Olubas
by Paul Morgan
Society
Loving This Planet by Helen Caldicott & Waging Peace: Reflections on Peace and War from an Unconventional Woman by Anne Deveson
Cultural Studies
The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War by Lara Feigel
Literary Studies
From a Distant Shore: Australian Writers in Britain 1820–2012 by Bruce Bennett and Anne Pender
by Ros Pesman
Classics
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations by Mary Beard
Education
Taking Stock: The Humanities in Australia edited by Mark Finnane and Ian Donaldson
Fiction
The Drinker by Hans Fallada, translated by Charlotte Lloyd and A.L. Lloyd
Memoir
A Flower Between the Cracks: A Memoir of Love, Hope and Disability by Helen Sage
Journal
Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature, Vol. 26, No. 2 edited by Nicholas Birns
Children's Fiction