October 2013, no. 355

October 2013, no. 355

Welcome to the October issue! The ABR Elizabeth Jolley Prize is now firmly established as one of Australia’s most prestigious and lucrative short story competitions. 1200 people entered this year. Our judges have whittled them down to a shortlist of three stories, and we publish them in the new issue. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in Sydney on 28 October. Otherwise, it’s a peak season for new fiction, and several major new novels are reviewed – Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (James Ley), Alex Miller’s Coal Creek (Brian Matthews), Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam, and Roger McDonald’s The Following. In our Theatre column, Ben Eltham finds little to like in David Williamson’s new play, Rupert.

Australian Love Poems 2013 edited by Mark Tredinnick

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MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood

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Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men took America into the War and into the World by Michael Fullilove

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Jolley Prize 2013 (Shortlist): 'The Five Truths of Manhood' by Rebekah Clarkson

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The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape by Andrew deWaard and R. Colin Tait

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Jolley Prize 2013 (Winner): 'Leaving Elvis' by Michelle Michau-Crawford

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Jolley Prize 2013 (Shortlist): 'The Accident' by Kim Mahood

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

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The New Front Page: New Media and the Rise of the Audience by Tim Dunlop

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Letters to the Editor

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A History of Silence by Lloyd Jones

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News from the Editor's Desk

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Coal Creek by Alex Miller

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The New Front Page: New Media and the Rise of the Audience by Tim Dunlop

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Why Priests?: A Failed Tradition by Garry Wills

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The Following by Roger McDonald

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What Was Left by Eleanor Limprecht

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Holiday in Cambodia by Laura Jean McKay

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Dark Horse by Honey Brown

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Trust Me: Australians and their Politicians by Jackie Dickenson

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'Steady Fetters', a new poem by Emma Lew

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'Laugh', a new poem by Thomas Shapcott

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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Fourth Edition edited by Roland Greene et al.

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Stone Scar Air Water by Judy Johnson

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Rupert

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William Morris Textiles by Linda Parry

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What Maisie Knew

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The Undivided Past: History Beyond our Differences by David Cannadine

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Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell in and out of Love with Vladimir Putin by Ben Judah

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The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes by Steven Nadler

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The Local Wildlife by Robert Drewe

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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan

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Melbourne: City of Words by John McLaren

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Westerly 58:1 edited by Delys Bird and Tony Hughes-d’Aeth

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The Boy Colonel: Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Marks, the Youngest Battalion Commander in the AIF by Will Davies

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Antipodes, Vol. 27, No.1 edited by Nicholas Birns

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Ruth Starke reviews new titles in Children's Fiction

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Cry Blue Murder by Kim Kane and Marion Roberts

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Open Page with Sheila Fitzpatrick

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