April 2016, no. 380

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.

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Full Contents

Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - April 2016

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Open Page

Open Page with George Megalogenis

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Poem

Excerpt from 'Doors, Stairwells, Courtyards' by Jakob Ziguras

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Poem

'Kangarilla, Summer, 2016' a new poem by Verity Laughton

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Letters

Letters to the Editor - April 2016

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Fiction

Marie O'Rourke reviews 'That Devil's Madness' by Dominique Wilson

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Fiction

Carol Middleton reviews 'The Canonbury Tales' by Don Aitkin

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Fiction

Jay Daniel Thompson reviews 'An Isolated Incident' by Emily Maguire

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Fiction

Alex Cothren reviews 'Sing Fox to Me' by Sarah Kanake

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Memoir

Gillian Dooley reviews 'The Long Run' by Catriona Menzies-Pike

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Biography

Richard Freadman reviews 'On Life-Writing' edited by Zachary Leader

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Biography

Michael Morley reviews 'Nicholas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music' by Vincent Giroud

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Travel

Kevin Rabalais reviews 'In Brazil: Encountering Festivals, Gods, and Heroes in one of the World's Most Seductive Nations' by Fran Bryson

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Poetry

Peter Kenneally reviews 'The Fox Petition' by Jennifer Maiden, 'Breaking the Days' by Jill Jones and 'Exhumed' by Cassandra Atherton

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Philosophy

Simon Caterson reviews 'The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times' by A.C. Grayling

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Media

Carol Middleton reviews 'The Media and the Massacre, Port Arthur 1996-2016' by Sonya Voumard

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Food

Christopher Menz reviews 'Food in Art: From Prehistory to the Renaissance' by Gillian Riley

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Australian History

Colin Golvan reviews 'Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s' by Stuart Macintyre

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Australian History

Billy Griffiths reviews 'Private Lives, Public History' by Anna Clark

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French Studies

Colin Nettelbeck reviews 'How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People' by Sudhir Hazareesingh

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True Crime

David Nichols reviews 'Pentridge: Behind the Bluestone Walls' by Don Osborne

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History

Stephanie Trigg reviews 'The History of Emotions: An Introduction' by Jan Pampler and translated by Keith Tribe

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History

Norman Etherington reviews 'The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History' Edited by Joseph C. Miller

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Media

Adrian Walsh reviews 'How Propaganda Works' by Jason Stanley

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Environmental Studies

Emily O'Gorman reviews 'Endurance: Australian Stories of Drought' by Deb Anderson

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Indigenous Studies

Rhyll McMaster reviews 'Where the Trees Were' by Inga Simpson

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Fiction

Gretchen Shirm reviews 'Our Magic Hour' by Jennifer Down

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Poetry

Benjamin Madden reviews 'The Poems of T.S. Eliot, Volume 1: Collected and Uncollected Poems' and 'The Poems of T.S. Eliot, Volume 2: Practical Cats and Further Verses' edited by Christopher Ricks

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Literary Studies

James Ley reviews 'The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime' by Harold Bloom

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Biography

Barney Zwartz reviews 'John le Carré' by Adam Sisman

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Stage Door

Stage Door | Michael Shmith interviews Leo Schofield

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Russian History

Mark Edele reviews 'On Stalin's Team' by Sheila Fitzpatrick

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Fiction

Michael McGirr reviews 'Waiting' by Philip Salom

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Biography

Susan Sheridan reviews 'Call of the Outback' by Marianne van Velzen

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Commentary

Reading Australia: 'The Female Eunuch' by Germaine Greer

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