April 2016, no. 380
Welcome to our April issue – with a gory Stalin on the cover. Mark Edele reviews the new book on Stalin by distinguished Soviet historian (and ABR regular) Sheila Fitzpatrick. Elsewhere, Kevin Rabalais writes about Brazil, Miriam Cosic revisits The Female Eunuch, and George Megalogenis is our guest on Open Page. Arts Update features prominently, with reviews of The Daughter, The Lady in the Van, and Picnic at Hanging Rock and Michael Shmith interviews Leo Schofield for Stage Door.
Full Contents
Biography
CALL OF THE OUTBACK: THE REMARKABLE STORY OF ERNESTINE HILL, NOMAD, ADVENTURER AND TRAILBLAZER by Marianne van Velzen
Russian History
On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick
by Mark Edele
Literary Studies
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Harold Bloom
by James Ley
Poetry
The Poems of T.S. Eliot, Volume one: collected and uncollected poems edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue & The Poems of T.S. Eliot, Volume two: practical cats and further verses edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue
History
The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History edited by Joseph C. Miller
French Studies
How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People by Sudhir Hazareesingh
Australian History
Australia’s Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s by Stuart Macintyre
by Colin Golvan
Food
The Edible Monument: The Art of Food for Festivals book edited by Marcia Reed & Food in Art: From Prehistory to the Renaissance by Gillian Riley
Philosophy