August 2014, no. 363

Welcome to our August issue – packed with good reading: reviews, commentary, new poetry, arts commentary. Few recent books have achieved such renown and influence as Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-first Century’; Mark Triffitt reviews it for us. We have reviews of new fiction by Gerald Murnane and Lorrie Moore; and biographies of Don Dunstan, George Herbert and Wilhelm II. Kevin Rabalais writes about ‘My Brother Jack’ on its fiftieth birthday. Finally, among our poets this month is soon-to-be-visiting UK poet Simon Armitage.
Full Contents
Russia
Kicking the Kremlin by Marc Bennetts & Putin and the Oligarch by Richard Sakwa
Biography
DON DUNSTAN, INTIMACY AND LIBERTY: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY by Dino Hodge
Sport
The Commonwealth Games: Extraordinary Stories Behind the Medals by Brian Oliver
Literary Studies
Antipodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of U.S. Literature by Paul Giles
by Philip Mead
Art
Behind the Doors: An Art History from Yuendumu by Philip Jones with Warlukurlangu Artists
by Colin Golvan
Japan
A War of Words: The Man Who Talked 4000 Japanese into Surrender by Hamish McDonald
Hollywood
FORBIDDEN MUSIC: by Michael Haas & HOLLYWOOD AND HITLER by Thomas Doherty
Picture Books