
June–July 2014, no. 362
Edward Snowden and the NSA – there has been no more riveting or consequential story in recent years. Much of the coverage has been reflexive and tendentious. In the June–July issue of ABR, James Der Derian reviews four books on the subject, including Luke Harding and Glenn Greenwald’s accounts of Snowden’s defection. Also, Neal Blewett reviews Bob Carr’s controversial diaries, and adds a twist of his own. Other contributors include Sheila Fitzpatrick, Bill Gammage, Jennifer Maiden, Richard Toye – and ABR Roving Blogger Fiona Gruber.
The Glass Kingdom by Chris Flynn
by Tony Birch
Meeting the Devil: A book of memoir from the London Review of Books edited by William Heinemann
The Snowden Files by Luke Harding & No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald
Diary of A Foreign Minister by Bob Carr
by Neal Blewett
The Claimant by Janette Turner Hospital
Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
N by John A. Scott
by Don Anderson
Crucible: An Australian First World War novel by J. P. McKinney
by Rodney Hall
Saree by Su Dharmapala
Prisoner X by Rafael Epstein
The Tainted Trail of Farah Jama by Julie Szego
by Ray Cassin
Dangerous Allies by Malcolm Fraser, Cain Roberts
In Defence of War by Nigel Biggar
An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris
by Peter Heerey
Animal Death edited by Jay Johnston, Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
by Sam Cadman
Calcutta: Two years in the city by Amit Chaudhuri
The literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor by Jonathan Rose
by Richard Toye
Australia and the Vietnam war by Peter Edwards
by David Horner
The unexpected professor: An Oxford life in books by John Carey
by Colin Steele
Dare me!: the life and work of Gerald Glaskin by John Burbidge
Music in the castle of heaven: A portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach by John Eliot Gardiner
Roman Bridges by
by Simon West
Happenings by
Breakfast with Lucian: A portrait of the artist by Geordie Greig
by Peter Hill
inside the dream palace: The life and times of New York's legendary Chelsea hotel by Sherill Tippins
by Ian Dickson
Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the emergence of identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
by Luke Horton
The Bloomsbury cookbook: Recipes for life, love and art by Jans Ondaatje Rolls
by Gay Bilson
Chasing Shadows by Leila Yusaf Chung
by Sonia Nair
The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham
by Nathan Smith
How I became the Mr Big of people smuggling by Martin Chambers
Meatloaf in Manhattan by Robert Power
by Ben Smith
Murder in the telephone exchange by June Wright
Between my Father and the King by Janet Frame
Australian Poetry Journal: Vol. 3, No. 2 edited by Bronwyn Lea
by Des Cowley