March 2016, no. 379
2016 Porter Prize Shortlist
Reviewed by Amanda Joy et al
Battleground: Why the Liberal Party Shirtfronted Tony Abbott by Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen
Reviewed by Frank Bongiorno
Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow by Suzanne Falkiner
Reviewed by Kerryn Goldsworthy
Fear Is the Rider by Kenneth Cook
Reviewed by Andrew Nette
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
Reviewed by Paul Giles
Napoleon’s Roads by David Brooks
Reviewed by Jane Sullivan
Lives of the Great Photographers by Juliet Hacking
Reviewed by Helen Ennis
The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future by David R. Boyd
Reviewed by Ian Lowe
The Rise of the Machines and other love poems by Peter Goldsworthy
Reviewed by Philip Harvey
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
Reviewed by Christopher Allen
Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education by Stanley Fish
Reviewed by Glyn Davis
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O’Brien
Reviewed by Fiona Gruber
The Best American Essays 2015 edited by Ariel Levy & The Best Australian Essays 2015 edited by Geordie Williamson
Reviewed by James McNamara
Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead by Nicholas Birns
Reviewed by Susan Lever
James Merrill: Life and Art by Langdon Hammer
Reviewed by Ian Dickson
Falling and Flying: Poems on Ageing edited by Judith Beveridge and Susan Ogle
Reviewed by David McCooey
Union: 15 Years of Drunken Boat, 50 Years of Writing from Singapore edited by Alvin Pang and Ravi Shankar
Reviewed by Sara Savage
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
Reviewed by Daniel Juckes
Leaving Elvis and Other Stories by Michelle Michau-Crawford
Reviewed by Francesca Sasnaitis
Joy Ride: Lives of the Theatricals by John Lahr
Reviewed by Tim Byrne
Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life by David Cavanagh
Reviewed by Fiona Hile
Yodelling Boundary Riders: Country Music in Australia since the 1920s by Toby Martin
Reviewed by Doug Wallen
Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry by Andrew Nikiforuk
Reviewed by Ruth A. Morgan
The Red Queen by Isobelle Carmody
Reviewed by Benjamin Chandler
Kent MacCarter is Poet of the Month
Reviewed by Hidden Author
Creating Poetry by Ron Pretty
Reviewed by Judith Beveridge
A Little America in Western Australia: The US Naval Communication Station at North West Cape and the Founding of Exmouth by Anthony J. Barker and Michael L. Ondaatje
Reviewed by Seumas Spark
Machine Rules: A Political Primer by Stephen Loosley
Reviewed by Joel Deane
Dancing in My Dreams: Confronting the Spectre of Polio by Kerry Highley
Reviewed by Paul Morgan
The Simplest Words: A Storyteller’s Journey by Alex Miller
Reviewed by Brenda Walker
The Bauhinia Tree: The Life of Kankawa Nagarra Olive Knight by Kankawa Nagarra Olive Knight
Reviewed by Josephine Taylor
The Lifted Brow: No. 28 edited by Stephanie Van Schilt, Ellena Savage, and Gillian Terzis
Reviewed by Joseph Rubbo
Letters to the Editor - March 2016
Reviewed by Hidden Author