August 2017, no. 393

Welcome to the August Fiction issue! Highlights include:

The three shortlisted stories in this year’s Jolley Prize
Peter Rose on same-sex marriage
Darius Sepehri’s Calibre Prize essay ‘To Speak of Sorrow’
Tom Griffiths reviews a new book on the climate catastrophe
Bernadette Brennan on Sarah Sentilles’s hymn for the victims of war
Interviews with Louise Adler and Gregory Day

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Full Contents

Politics

Bernadette Brennan reviews 'Draw Your Weapons' by Sarah Sentilles

by Bernadette Brennan

Climate Change

Tom Griffiths reviews 'The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable' by Amitav Ghosh

by Tom Griffiths

Fiction

Robert Dessaix reviews 'House of Names' by Colm Tóibín

by Robert Dessaix

ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize

Jolley Prize 2017 (Winner): 'Pheidippides' by Eliza Robertson

by Eliza Robertson

ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize

Jolley Prize 2017 (Shortlisted): 'The Leaching Layer' by Dominic Amerena

by Dominic Amerena

ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize

Jolley Prize 2017 (Shortlisted): 'Butter' by Lauren Aimee Curtis

by Lauren Aimee Curtis

Calibre Prize

2017 Calibre Essay Prize (Second prize): 'To Speak of Sorrow' by Darius Sepehri

by Darius Sepehri

Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - August 2017

by Australian Book Review

Poem

'Little Fly' by Fay Zwicky

by Fay Zwicky

Indigenous Studies

Alan Atkinson reviews 'Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney' by Paul Irish

by Alan Atkinson

Essays

Ryan Cropp reviews 'Donald Horne: Selected writings' edited by Nick Horne

by Ryan Cropp

Australian History

Agnes Nieuwenhuizen reviews 'Australian Lives: An intimate history' by Anisa Puri and Alistair Thomson

by Agnes Nieuwenhuizen

Essays

Wilfrid Prest reviews 'A Historian for all Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton' edited by Stuart Macintyre, Lenore Layman, and Jenny Gregory

by Wilfrid Prest

Memoir

Tali Lavi reviews 'Once We Were Sisters' by Sheila Kocher

by Tali Lavi

Essays

David Schlosberg reviews 'How Did We Get Into This Mess? Politics, equality, nature' by George Monbiot

by David Schlosberg

Politics

Mark Chou reviews ‘Democracy: Stories from the long road to freedom’ by Condoleezza Rice

by Mark Chou

Fiction

David Latham reviews 'The Circle and the Equator' by Kyra Giorgi

by David Latham

Economics

Simon Tormey reviews ‘Adults in the room: My battle with Europe’s deep establishment’ by Yanis Varoufakis

by Simon Tormey

Poem

'[sanctum sanctorum our windowless attic]' by Jaydn de Wald

Fiction

Tony Hughes-d’Aeth reviews 'Taboo' by Kim Scott

by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth

Fiction

Miriam Cosic reviews 'On the Java Ridge' by Jock Serong

by Miriam Cosic

Fiction

Shannon Burns reviews 'The Lost Pages' by Marija Peričić

by Shannon Burns

Poetry

Geoff Page reviews 'Transparencies' by Stephen Edgar

by Geoff Page

Medicine

Ceridwen Spark reviews 'Anaesthesia: The gift of oblivion and the mystery of consciousness' by Kate Cole-Adams

by Ceridwen Spark

Russia

Iva Glisic reviews 'Who Lost Russia?: How the world entered a new Cold War' by Peter Conradi

by Iva Glisic

Politics

Alison Broinowski reviews 'The Violent American Century: War and Terror since World War II' by John W. Dower

by Alison Broinowski

Publisher of the Month

Publisher of the Month with Louise Adler

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