Welcome to the January–February issue! Highlights include:
- 2017 Publisher Picks
- Michael Winkler reviews Alexis Wright's book on 'Tracker' Tilmouth
- Peter Goldsworthy on a new biography of Czesław Miłosz
- Barbara Keys on Odd Arne Westad's new history of the Cold War
- Kevin Foster on Chris Masters' new book on the ADF
- Memoirs by Claire Tomalin, Mike Willesee, and Tina Brown
- Chris Masters is our Open Page guest
January–February 2018, no. 398
Michael Winkler reviews 'Tracker: Stories of Tracker Tilmouth' by Alexis Wright
Michael Winkler
In Alexis Wright’s novel Carpentaria (2006), Girlie claims, ‘If you ever want to find out about anything in your vicinity, you have to talk to the mad people.’ There are a l More
2017 Publisher Picks
Madonna Duffy et al
To complement our 2017 ‘Books of the Year’, we invited several senior publishers to nominate their favourite books – all published by other companies.
MorePeter Goldsworthy reviews 'Miłosz: A biography' by Andrzej Franaszek, edited and translated by Aleksandra Parker and Michael Parker
Peter Goldsworthy
About halfway through this thick biography of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Czesław Miłosz (and halfway through the century of horrors that his life experiences uncannily track and are wi More
Lisa Gorton reviews 'Dunbar' by Edward St Aubyn
Lisa Gorton
‘Leir the sonne of Baldud, was admitted ruler over the Britaines, in the year of the world 3105’ (Holinshed’s Chronicles, 1577). Shakespeare’s play King Lear is s More
