June-July 2015, no. 372
Welcome to the June-July double issue! Highlights this month include a major profile of internationally-acclaimed indigenous musician Gurrumul written by Felicity Plunkett as part of her Sidney Myer Fund Fellowship, and new poems by Samuel Wagan Watson and Graham Akhurst. Plus Sheila Fitzpatrick on Lenin, Neil Kaplan on genocide, Danielle Clode on nature writing, and Tony Birch’s Reading Australia essay on Thomas Keneally’s The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. We launch a new feature called ‘Future Tense’ to highlight new and emerging writers – Ellen van Neerven is our first guest. Plus we have reviews of new fiction by Lisa Gorton, Steven Carroll, and Malcolm Knox, and Maxine Beneba Clarke is our Open Page guest.
Forever Young by Steven Carroll
An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians? by Geoffrey Robertson
by Neil Kaplan
Becoming Steve Jobs: How a reckless upstart became a visionary leader by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
by Joel Deane
Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography by Tamás Krausz
The Life of Houses by Lisa Gorton
Climate Shock: The economic consequences of a hotter planet by Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
The Wonder Lover by Malcolm Knox
The Mothers by Rod Jones
by Rose Lucas
Coming Rain by Stephen Daisley
The Poets' Stairwell: A picaresque novel by Alan Gould
The Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa translated by Edith Grossman
by Peter Craven
Suspended Sentences: Three novellas by Patrick Modiano translated by Mark Polizzotti
Crucifixion Creek: The Belltree Trilogy 1 by Barry Maitland
by Viki Dun
Running Out?: Water in Western Australia by Ruth A. Morgan
Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand edited by James Beattie, Emily O'Gorman, and Matthew Henry
Lost Relations: Fortunes of My Family in Australia's Golden Age by Graeme Davison
The Gangster Film: Fatal success in American Cinema by Ron Wilson
by Jake Wilson
Mid-Century Modern Complete by Dominic Bradbury
Trendyville: The Battle for Australia's inner cities by Renate Howe, David Nichols, and Graeme Davison
Dear Life: On Caring for the elderly (Quarterly Essay 57) by Karen Hitchcock
Ransacking Paris: A year with Montaigne and friends by Patti MIller
Cocky's Joy by Michael Farrell
Towards the equator: new and selected poems by Alex Skovron
Suite for Percy Grainger by Jessica L. Wilkinson
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
by Ian Gibbins