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.
Full Contents
United States
Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men took America into the War and into the World by Michael Fullilove
Film
The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape by Andrew deWaard and R. Colin Tait
by Jake Wilson
Poetry
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Fourth Edition edited by Roland Greene et al.
Russia
Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell in and out of Love with Vladimir Putin by Ben Judah
Philosophy
The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes by Steven Nadler
Military History
The Boy Colonel: Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Marks, the Youngest Battalion Commander in the AIF by Will Davies
by Jo Scanlan