January–February 2017, no. 388

Welcome to our January–February issue! Highlights of the double issue include:
- Klaus Neumann on refugees
- Angelo Loukakis on Don Watson
- Gabriel García Ochoa – Letter from Mexico
- Publisher of the Month – our new Q & A
- Three new ABR Writers’ Fellowships, each worth $7,500
Full Contents
Biography
Dr James Barry: A woman ahead of her time by Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield
by James Dunk
Fiction
The Transmigration of Bodies and Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman
Dance
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian ballet from the rule of the tsars to today by Simon Morrison
History
Empire of Things: How we became a world of consumers, from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first by Frank Trentmann
History
The Age of Genius: The seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind by A.C. Grayling
Military History
Double Diamonds: Australian commandos in the Pacific War 1941-45 by Karl James
by Kevin Foster
Publisher of the Month
Michael Heyward is Publisher of the Month
Norway
Trillion Dollar Baby: How Norway Beat the Oil Giants and Won a Lasting Fortune by Paul Cleary
by Adrian Walsh
Essays