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.
CALL OF THE OUTBACK: THE REMARKABLE STORY OF ERNESTINE HILL, NOMAD, ADVENTURER AND TRAILBLAZER by Marianne van Velzen
Reviewed by Susan Sheridan
Waiting by Philip Salom
Reviewed by Michael McGirr
On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Reviewed by Mark Edele
John le Carré: The Biography by Adam Sisman
Reviewed by Barney Zwartz
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Harold Bloom
Reviewed by James Ley
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
Reviewed by Benjamin Madden
Our Magic Hour by Jennifer Down
Reviewed by Gretchen Shirm
Where the Trees Were by Inga Simpson
Reviewed by Rhyll McMaster
Endurance: Australian Stories of Drought by Deb Anderson
Reviewed by Emily O'Gorman
How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley
Reviewed by Adrian Walsh
The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History edited by Joseph C. Miller
Reviewed by Norman Etherington
The History of Emotions: An Introduction by Jan Plamper
Reviewed by Stephanie Trigg
Pentridge: Behind the Bluestone Walls by Don Osborne
Reviewed by David Nicholls
How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People by Sudhir Hazareesingh
Reviewed by Colin Nettelbeck
Private Lives, Public History by Anna Clark
Reviewed by Billy Griffiths
Australia’s Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s by Stuart Macintyre
Reviewed by Colin Golvan
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
Reviewed by Christopher Menz
The Media and the Massacre, Port Arthur 1996-2016 by Sonya Voumard
Reviewed by Carol Middleton
The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times by A.C. Grayling
Reviewed by Simon Caterson
In Brazil: Encountering Festivals, Gods, and Heroes in one of the World's Most Seductive Nations by Fran Bryson
Reviewed by Kevin Rabalais
Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music by Vincent Giroud
Reviewed by Michael Morley
On Life-Writing edited by Zachary Leader
Reviewed by Richard Freadman
The Long Run by Catriona Menzies-Pike
Reviewed by Gillian Dooley
Sing Fox to Me by Sarah Kanake
Reviewed by Alex Cothren
An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire
Reviewed by Jay Daniel Thompson
The Canonbury Tales by Don Aitkin
Reviewed by Carol Middleton
That Devil’s Madness by Dominique Wilson
Reviewed by Marie O'Rourke
Letters to the Editor - April 2016
Reviewed by Hidden Author