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
Full Contents
Climate Change
The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Jolley Prize 2017 (Winner): 'Pheidippides' by Eliza Robertson
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Jolley Prize 2017 (Shortlisted): 'The Leaching Layer' by Dominic Amerena
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Jolley Prize 2017 (Shortlisted): 'Butter' by Lauren Aimee Curtis
Indigenous Studies
Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney by Paul Irish
Australian History
Australian Lives: An intimate history by Anisa Puri and Alistair Thomson
Essays
A Historian for all Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton edited by Stuart Macintyre, Lenore Layman, and Jenny Gregory
Essays
How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, equality, and nature by George Monbiot
Economics
Adults in the Room: My battle with Europe’s deep establishment by Yanis Varoufakis
by Simon Tormey
Medicine
Anaesthesia: The gift of oblivion and the mystery of consciousness by Kate Cole-Adams
Politics
The Violent American Century: War and Terror since World War II by John W. Dower
Publisher of the Month
Publisher of the Month with Louise Adler
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