December 2017, no. 397

December 2017, no. 397

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Politics

Max Holleran reviews 'Democracy in Chains: The deep history of the radical right’s stealth plan' for America by Nancy MacLean

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Art

John Rickard reviews 'Collecting for the Nation: The Australiana Fund' edited by Jennifer Sanders

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Books of the Year

2017 Books of the Year

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Essay Collection

'Picnic at Hanging Rock fifty years on' by Marguerite Johnson

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Fiction

Beejay Silcox reviews 'Border Districts' by Gerald Murnane

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Science and Technology

Danielle Clode reviews 'Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker' by A.N. Wilson

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Sport

Ryan Cropp reviews 'The Death and Life of Australian Soccer' by Joe Gorman

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Literary Studies

Andrew Fuhrmann reviews 'A Long Saturday: Conversations' by George Steiner and Laure Adler

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Poetry

Peter Kenneally reviews 'These Things Are Real' by Alan Wearne

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Poetry

Gregory Day reviews 'The Best Australian Poems 2017' edited by Sarah Holland-Batt

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Australian History

Michael Winkler reviews 'Australian Gypsies: Their secret history' by Mandy Sayer

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Society

Dan Dixon reviews 'Moral Panic 101: Equality, acceptance and the Safe Schools scandal (Quarterly Essay 67)' by Benjamin Law

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History

Amanda Nettelbeck reviews 'The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the settlers and the protectors' by Bain Attwood

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History

Gemma Betros reviews 'Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year' by Peter Brooks

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Fiction

Barry Reynolds reviews 'Bad to Worse' by Robert Edeson

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Fiction

Fiona Wright reviews 'Drawing Sybylla' by Odette Kelada

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Fiction

Catherine Noske reviews 'Terra Nullius' by Claire G. Coleman

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Fiction

Jay Daniel Thompson reviews 'Dancing Home' by Paul Collis

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Fiction

Gillian Dooley reviews 'The Pacific Room' by Michael Fitzgerald

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Fiction

Anna MacDonald reviews 'Half Wild' by Pip Smith

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Fiction

Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews 'Atlantic Black' by A.S. Patrić

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Fiction

Felicity Plunkett reviews 'Demi-Gods' by Eliza Robertson

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Poem

'Swan' by Zoë Brigley Thompson

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Poem

'Ithaca Road' by Philip Mead

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Memoir

James McNamara reviews 'How Not To Be A Boy' by Robert Webb and 'This Is Going To Hurt: Secret diaries of a junior doctor' by Adam Kay

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Memoir

Ceridwen Spark reviews 'The Book of Thistles' by Noëlle Janaczewska

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Memoir

Susan Wyndham reviews 'Can You Hear the Sea? My Grandmother’s Story' by Brenda Niall

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Memoir

Kevin Foster reviews 'The First Casualty' by Peter Greste

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Asian Studies

David Fettling reviews 'Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s decline: From Obama to Trump and beyond' by Gideon Rachman

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China

David Brophy reviews 'The Souls of China: The return of religion after Mao' by Ian Johnson

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Politics

Richard Walsh reviews 'Wednesdays with Bob' by Bob Hawke and Derek Rielly

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Politics

Frank Bongiorno reviews 'The Dismissal Dossier: Everything you were never meant to know about November 1975' by Jenny Hocking

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Politics

Shaun Crowe reviews 'Please Explain: The rise, fall and rise again of Pauline Hanson' by Anna Broinowksi and 'Rogue Nation: Dispatches from Australia’s populist uprisings and outsider politics' by Royce Kurmelovs

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Environment

Kathrin Bartha reviews 'Facing Gaia: Eight lectures on the new climatic regime' by Bruno Latour, translated by Catherine Porter

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Letters

Letters to the Editor - December 2017

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Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - December 2017

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Sport

'When sport and politics collide' by Kieran Pender

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Commentary

'Victory for Equality' by Peter Rose

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