August 2016, no. 383
The highlights of the August Fiction issue are the three stories shortlisted in the prestigious $12,500 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. Other highlights include an extract from poet Michael Aiken's ABR Laureate's Fellowship project: Satan Repentant. Also in the issue, we have Peter Mares on Manus and Nauru, Ilana Snyder on American Jewish divisions about Israel, Neal Blewett on The Killing Season Uncut, Simon Tormey on Thomas Piketty's new work, and Bruce Moore reflects on the new Australian National Dictionary. Novelists reviewed in this issue include Annie Proulx, Louise Erdrich, Katherine Brabon, Mark O'Flynn, Zoë Morrison, and Liam Pieper. Historian Tom Griffiths is our Open Page guest.
The Killing Season Uncut by Sarah Ferguson, with Patricia Drum
by Neal Blewett
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
Hegel's Owl: The life of Bernard Smith by Sheridan Palmer
The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their craft by Tom Griffiths
by Mark McKenna
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 1926–1929 edited by edited by Rena Sanderson, Sandra Spanier, and Robert W. Trogdon
Beethoven for a Later Age: The journey of a string quartet by Edward Dusinberre
by Paul Kildea
Collected Poems by by Vikram Seth
The Memory Artist by Katherine Brabon
Avalanche: A love story by Julia Leigh
by Rose Lucas
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
by Sarah Myles
Offshore: Behind The wire on Manus and Nauru by Madeline Gleeson
by Peter Mares
Chronicles: On our troubled times by by Thomas Piketty, translated by Seth Ackerman
by Simon Tormey
The Last Days of Ava Langdon by Mark O’Flynn
Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh
Music and Freedom by Zoë Morrison
The Healing Party by Micheline Lee
Black Teeth by Zane Lovitt
by Dean Biron
Passions of a Mighty Heart: Selected letters of G.W.L. Marshall-Hall edited by Suzanne Robinson
by John Arnold
The last love song: A biography of Joan Didion by Tracy Daugherty
On Bowie by Simon Critchley
by Doug Wallen
The Lucky Country? Reinventing Australia by Ian Lowe
Tom Hughes QC: A cab on the rank by Ian Hancock
by Peter Heerey
The Toymaker by Liam Pieper
by Laurie Steed
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
Growing Wild by Michael Wilding
Native Title from Mabo to Akiba: A Vehicle for Change and Empowerment? edited by Sean Brennan et al.
The Book of the People: How to Read the Bible by by A.N. Wilson
Ultimate Questions by Bryan Magee
by Craig Taylor