Australian Book Review

April 2017, no. 390

April 2017, no. 390

Welcome to the April issue! Highlights include:

Colin Golvan on Albert Namatjira’s copyright
Elizabeth McMahon on NZ literature
Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews The Refugees
Open Page with Ashley Hay
Andrew Fuhrmann on Paul Robeson
News from the Editor’s desk

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Law

John Eldridge reviews 'On Fantasy Island: Britain, Europe and Human Rights' by Conor Gearty

by John Eldridge

Poetry

Susan Sheridan reviews 'New and Selected Poems of Anna Wickham' edited by Nathanael O’Reilly

by Susan Sheridan

Poetry

Geoff Page reviews 'The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry' by John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan (eds)

History

Colin Nettelbeck reviews 'Les Parisiennes: How the women of Paris lived, loved, and died in the 1940s' by Anne Sebba

by Colin Nettelbeck

History

Christopher Allen reviews 'Imperial Triumph: The Roman world from Hadrian to Constantine' by Michael Kulikowski

by Christopher Allen

Fiction

Benjamin Chandler reviews 'The Change Trilogy: The Silent Invasion' by James Bradley

by Benjamin Chandler

Fiction

Anna MacDonald reviews 'The Trapeze Act' by Libby Angel

by Anna MacDonald

Fiction

Sara Savage reviews 'The Permanent Resident' by Roanna Gonsalves

Fiction

Blanche Clark reviews 'The Restorer' by Michael Sala

by Blanche Clark

Fiction

Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews 'The Refugees' by Viet Thanh Nguyen

by Kerryn Goldsworthy

Fiction

Fiona Wright review 'From the Wreck' by Jane Rawson

by Fiona Wright

Open Page

Open Page with Ashley Hay

Poet of the Month

Paul Hetherington is Poet of the Month

Critic of the Month

Felicity Plunkett is Critic of the Month

Biography

Patrick McCaughey reviews 'Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilization' by James Stourton

by Patrick McCaughey

Biography

Andrew Fuhrmann reviews 'No Way but This: In Search of Paul Robeson' by Jeff Sparrow

by Andrew Fuhrmann

Biography

Kevin Foster review 'Valiant For Truth: The life of Chester Wilmot, war correspondent' by Neil McDonald with Peter Brune

by Kevin Foster

History

Mark Edele reviews 'Stalin and the Scientists: A History of triumph and tragedy 1905–1953' by Simon Ings

Science and Technology

Nick Haslam reviews 'A Day in the Life of the Brain: The neuroscience of consciousness from dawn till dusk' by Susan Greenfield

Memoir

Suzy Freeman-Greene reviews 'The Political is Personal: A 20th century memoir' by Judith Buckrich

by Suzy Freeman-Greene

Memoir

Alison Broinowski reviews 'Subtle Moments: Scenes on a life’s journey' by Bruce Grant

by Alison Broinowski

Religion

Michael McGirr reviews 'The Tempest-Tossed Church: Being a Catholic today' by Gerard Windsor

by Michael McGirr

Poem

'Ship', a new poem by Paul Hetherington

by Paul Hetherington

Society

Paul Morgan reviews 'Peak: Reinventing middle age' by Patricia Edgar and Don Edgar

Biography

Katy Gerner reviews 'Hamilton Hume: Our greatest explorer' by Robert Macklin

Memoir

Gillian Dooley reviews 'After' by Nikki Gemmell

by Gillian Dooley

Literary Studies

Tali Lavi review 'Behind the Text: Candid conversations with Australian creative nonfiction writers' by Sue Joseph

Literary Studies

Gillian Dooley reviews 'Australian Literary Studies' edited by Julieanne Lamond

by Gillian Dooley

Fiction

Brenda Walker reviews 'Old Growth' by John Kinsella

by Brenda Walker

Fiction

Beejay Silcox reviews '4321' by Paul Auster

by Beejay Silcox

Politics

Dennis Altman reviews 'Disposable Leaders: Media and leadership coups from Menzies to Abbott' by Rodney Tiffen

by Dennis Altman

Memoir

Diana Bagnall reviews 'The Case Against Fragrance' by Kate Grenville

by Diana Bagnall

Society

Deborah Zion reviews 'Time to Die' by Rodney Syme

by Deborah Zion

Society

Mark McKenna reviews 'Illicit Love: Interracial sex and marriage in the United States and Australia' by Ann McGrath

by Mark McKenna

History

Alan Atkinson reviews 'Scurvy: The disease of discovery' by Jonathan Lamb

by Alan Atkinson

Literary Studies

Paul Giles reviews 'The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 9: The world novel in English to 1950' edited by Ralph Crane, Jane Stafford, and Mark Williams

Literary Studies

Elizabeth McMahon reviews 'A History of New Zealand Literature' edited by Mark Williams

by Elizabeth McMahon

Letters

Letters to the Editor - April 2017

by Austrlian Book Review

Advances

News from the Editor's desk - April 2017

by Australian Book Review

Commentary

'The Copyright of Albert Namatjira' by Colin Golvan

by Colin Golvan