Australian Book Review

September 2017, no. 394

September 2017, no. 394

Welcome to the September issue! Highlights include:

Same-Sex Marriage - Yes for Equality
Philip Jones’s Fellowship Essay ‘Beyond Songlines’
John Rickard on Judith Brett’s biography of Alfred Deakin
Brian Matthews on Jim Davidson’s memoir
Sue Kossew on J.M. Coetzee’s essays
James Ley reviews The Choke by Sofie Laguna
Richard Walsh (Allen & Unwin) is Publisher of the Month
'The same-sex marriage debate' by Peter Rose

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Advances

An open letter on same sex marriage

by Australian Book Review

Publisher of the Month

Publisher of the Month with Richard Walsh

Essay Collection

Mark Williams reviews 'Can You Tolerate This?: Personal essays' by Ashleigh Young

by Mark Williams

Literary Studies

Colin Nettelbeck reviews 'A History of Modern French Literature: From the sixteenth century to the twentieth century' edited by Christopher Prendergast

by Colin Nettelbeck

Poetry

Joan Fleming reviews 'The Blue Decodes' by Cassie Lewis and 'redactor' by Eddie Paterson

by Joan Fleming

Poetry

Anthony Lawrence reviews 'Selected Poems 1968–2014' by Paul Muldoon

by Anthony Lawrence

Poetry

Ian Dickson reviews 'Robert Lowell: Setting the river on fire: A study of genius, mania and character' by Kay Redfield Jamison

Education

Robert Phiddian reviews 'Speaking of Universities' by Stefan Collini

by Robert Phiddian

Science and Technology

Nick Haslam reviews 'The Secret Life of The Mind: How our brain thinks, feels, and decides' by Mariano Sigman

Science and Technology

Robyn Williams reviews 'Radio Astronomer: John Bolton and a new window on the universe' by Peter Robertson

by Robyn Williams

Economics

Geoffrey Blainey reviews 'A Little History of Economics' by Niall Kishtainy

by Geoffrey Blainey

Poem

'Art Detective' by Lucy Dougan

Memoir

Brian Matthews reviews 'A Führer for a Father: The Domestic Face of Colonialism' by Jim Davidson

by Brian Matthews

Gender

Tali Lavi reviews 'Stop Fixing Women: Why building fairer workplaces is everybody’s business' by Catherine Fox

Jewish Studies

Elisabeth Holdsworth reviews 'Jewish Anzacs: Jews in the Australian military' by Mark Dapin

by Elisabeth Holdsworth

Military History

Seumas Spark reviews 'The Shadow Men: The leaders who shaped the Australian Army from the Veldt to Vietnam' edited by Craig Stockings and John Connor

by Seumas Spark

United States

Andrew Broertjes reviews 'The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton' by William E. Leuchtenburg

by Andrew Broertjes

Politics

Shaun Crowe reviews 'Reboot: A democracy makeover to empower Australia’s voters' by Richard Walsh

Australian History

Billy Griffiths reviews 'The Vandemonian War: The secret history of Britain’s Tasmanian invasion' by Nick Brodie

by Billy Griffiths

Politics

Colin Wight reviews 'The End of Europe: Dictators, demagogues, and the coming Dark Age' by James Kirchick

Politics

Lyndon Megarrity reviews 'The Show: Another side of Santamaria’s movement' by Mark Aarons and John Grenville

by Lyndon Megarrity

Fiction

Sonia Nair reviews 'The Hope Fault' by Tracy Farr

Fiction

Patrick Holland reviews 'Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria: A novel in thirty-four cantos' by Brian Castro

by Patrick Holland

Fiction

Johanna Leggatt reviews 'Australia Day' by Melanie Cheng

by Johanna Leggatt

Fiction

Josephine Taylor reviews 'The Gulf' by Anna Spargo-Ryan

by Josephine Taylor

Fiction

Shannon Burns reviews 'The Town' by Shaun Prescott

by Shannon Burns

Fiction

Patrick Allington reviews 'A New England Affair' by Steven Carroll

by Patrick Allington

Fiction

Susan Midalia reviews 'Pulse Points' by Jennifer Down

by Susan Midalia

Israel

Danielle Celermajer reviews 'Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, leader, statesman' by Itamar Rabinovich

by Danielle Celermajer

Fiction

Phoebe Weston-Evans reviews 'So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood' by Patrick Modiano, translated by Euan Cameron

by Phoebe Weston-Evans

Essay Collection

'Beyond Songlines' by Philip Jones

by Philip Jones

Fiction

Fiona Wright reviews 'Common People' by Tony Birch

by Fiona Wright

Fiction

James Ley reviews 'The Choke' by Sofie Laguna

Essay Collection

Sue Kossew reviews 'Late Essays: 2006–2017' by J.M. Coetzee

Biography

John Rickard reviews 'The Enigmatic Mr Deakin' by Judith Brett

by John Rickard

Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - September 2017

by Australian Book Review

Commentary

'The same-sex marriage debate' by Peter Rose