August 2014, no. 363

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.

Capital in the Twenty-first Century by Thomas Piketty

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My Brother Jack at fifty

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A Million Windows by Gerald Murnane

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Kicking the Kremlin by Marc Bennetts & Putin and the Oligarch by Richard Sakwa

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Jacks and Jokers by Matthew Condon

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IN MY MOTHER’S HANDS: A DISTURBING MEMOIR OF FAMILY LIFE by Biff Ward

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DON DUNSTAN, INTIMACY AND LIBERTY: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY by Dino Hodge

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WARNING: THE STORY OF CYCLONE TRACY by Sophie Cunningham

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Voyaging in Strange Seas: The Great Revolution in Science by David Knight

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The Wonders by Paddy O’Reilly

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Bark by Lorrie Moore

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Cadence: Travels with Music: A Memoir by Emma Ayres

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Letters to the Editor

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News from the Editor's Desk

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The Commonwealth Games: Extraordinary Stories Behind the Medals by Brian Oliver

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Menzies at War by Anne Henderson

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Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World by Philip Pettit

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Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile, 1900–1941 by John C.G. Rohl

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Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert by John Drury

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Antipodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of U.S. Literature by Paul Giles

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'The Bluetongue as an Answer to the Anxiety of Reputation', a new poem by Andy Kissane

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'Photograph – Mekong Delta, 1965', a new poem by Katherine Gallagher

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'The Invigilator', a new poem by Simon Armitage

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The Yellow Papers by Dominique Wilson

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Hedda Gabler

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Christopher Menz visits the 'Mid-Century Modern' exhibition at NGV

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Behind the Doors: An Art History from Yuendumu by Philip Jones with Warlukurlangu Artists

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Amanda Laugesen on the slow death of Australian slang

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A War of Words: The Man Who Talked 4000 Japanese into Surrender by Hamish McDonald

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FORBIDDEN MUSIC: by Michael Haas & HOLLYWOOD AND HITLER by Thomas Doherty

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Ecstacies and Elegies: Poems by Paul Carter

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Devadatta’s Poems by Judith Beveridge

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Workshopping the Heart: New and Selected Poems by Jeri Kroll

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Stone Postcard by Paul Magee

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Radiance by Andy Kissane

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Claustrophobia by Tracy Ryan

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The Return by Silvia Kwon

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Wild Things by Brigid Delaney

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Granta 127: Japan edited by Yuka Igarashi et al.

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I Have a Dog by Charlotte Lance & Imagine a City by Elise Hurst

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Open Page with Sophie Cunningham

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