September 2016, no. 384
The highlight of the September issue is distinguished historian Alan Atkinson's searching and timely RAFT Fellowship essay on the Australian national conscience. Other highlights include Glyn Davis on Britain's Europe from birth to Brexit, Beejay Silcox's fly-on-the-wall account of a Donald Trump Rally, Bernadette Brennan on the works of Kim Scott, Simon Caterson on Brett Whiteley, Joy Damousi on the Armenian Genocide, and a poem from New Zealand's poet Laureate Bill Manhire. We review fiction by authors including Steven Amsterdam, Nick Earls, Tara June Winch, Howard Jacobson, and Anna Spargo-Ryan. Michael Shmith interviews Brett Dean for Green Room, and author Fiona Wright is our Open Page guest.
Letter from America
Reviewed by Beejay Silcox
The Easy Way Out by Steven Amsterdam
Reviewed by Fiona Wright
Britain’s Europe: A thousand years of conflict and cooperation by Brendan Simms
Reviewed by Glyn Davis
A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott edited by Belinda Wheeler
Reviewed by Bernadette Brennan
Armenia, Australia and the Great War by Vicken Babkenian and Peter Stanley
Reviewed by Joy Damousi
Our Man Elsewhere: In search of Alan Moorehead by Thornton McCamish
Reviewed by Robin Gerster
Brett Whiteley: Art, life and the other thing by Ashleigh Wilson
Reviewed by Simon Caterson
The Romanovs: 1613–1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Reviewed by Mark Edele
After the Carnage by Tara June Winch
Reviewed by Kerryn Goldsworthy
The Abundance by Annie Dillard
Reviewed by Kevin Rabalais
Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a lady novelist by Anne Boyd Rioux
Reviewed by Brenda Niall
The Worst Woman in Sydney: The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh by Leigh Straw
Reviewed by Rachel Fuller
Position Doubtful: Mapping landscapes and memories by Kim Mahood
Reviewed by Michael Winkler
Farewell to the Father by Tim Elliott
Reviewed by Kári Gíslason
Lonely City: Adventures in the art of being alone by Olivia Laing
Reviewed by Alexandra Mathew
Liberty or Death: The French Revolution by Peter McPhee
Reviewed by Robert Aldrich
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible by William N. Goetzmann
Reviewed by Peter Acton
Life of the Party: How the Remarkable Brownie Wise Built and Lost a Tupperware Party Empire by Bob Kealing
Reviewed by Rachel Fuller
Shylock Is My Name by by Howard Jacobson
Reviewed by Andrea Goldsmith
Dying in the First Person by Nike Sulway
Reviewed by Shannon Burns
The Wisdom Tree: Five Novellas by Nick Earls
Reviewed by Anthony Lynch
The Paper House by Anna Spargo-Ryan
Reviewed by Thuy On
The Bricks that Built the Houses by by Kate Tempest
Reviewed by Barnaby Smith
Movie Journal: The rise of new American cinema 1959–1971 by Jonas Mekas
Reviewed by Philippa Hawker
Art in Britain 1660–1815 by David H. Solkin
Reviewed by Patrick McCaughey
The Vagabond Papers by John Stanley James
Reviewed by John Arnold
A Long Time Coming: Essays on old age by Melanie Joosten
Reviewed by Patrick Allington
In other words: Forty years of essays by Goenawan Mohamad, translated by Jennifer Lindsay
Reviewed by Satendra Nandan
Dawn the Proof by Tony Page
Reviewed by Dennis Haskell
Mr Unpronounceable and the Infinity of Nightmares by Tim Molloy
Reviewed by Max Sipowicz
Letters to the Editor - September 2016
Reviewed by Hidden Author
'Indexing Emily' by Bill Manhire
Reviewed by Bill Manhire
'Smartraveller' by Tracy Ryan
Reviewed by Tracy Ryan