How to resolve AdBlock issue? 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.
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ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Jolley Prize 2016 (Shortlist): 'Ash' by Anthony Lawrence
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Jolley Prize 2016 (Winner): 'Glisk' by Josephine Rowe
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Jolley Prize 2016 (Shortlist): 'The Water Calligrapher's Women' by Jonathan Tel
by Jonathan Tel
Australian History
The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their craft by Tom Griffiths
by Mark McKenna
Letters
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 1926–1929 edited by edited by Rena Sanderson, Sandra Spanier, and Robert W. Trogdon
Music
Beethoven for a Later Age: The journey of a string quartet by Edward Dusinberre
by Paul Kildea
Economics
Chronicles: On our troubled times by by Thomas Piketty, translated by Seth Ackerman
by Simon Tormey
Politics
Firing Line: Australia's path to war (Quarterly Essay 62) by James Brown
Fiction
Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers by Ryan O’Neill
by David Wright
Letters
Passions of a Mighty Heart: Selected letters of G.W.L. Marshall-Hall edited by Suzanne Robinson
by John Arnold
Indigenous Studies