January–February 2018, no. 398

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
Full Contents
Biography
Miłosz: A biography by Andrzej Franaszek, edited and translated by Aleksandra Parker and Michael Parker
Politics
No Front Line: Australia’s special forces at war in Afghanistan by Chris Masters
by Kevin Foster
Politics
The Pivot of Power: Australian prime ministers and political leadership 1949–2016 by Paul Strangio, Paul ‘t Hart, and James Walter
Memoir
Adventures of a Young Naturalist:: The Zoo Quest expeditions by David Attenborough
Education
No End of a Lesson: Australia’s unified national system of higher education by Stuart Macintyre, André Brett, and Gwilym Croucher
by Paul Giles
Law
The Campaign against the Courts:: A history of the judicial activism debate by Tanya Josev
Biology
The Secret Life of Whales: A marine biologist’s revelations by Micheline Jenner
by Rachael Mead
Cricket
Feeling is the Thing that Happens in 1000th of a Second by Christian Ryan & Lillee & Thommo by Ian Brayshaw
Film
The Best Film I Never Made: And other stories about a life in the arts by Bruce Beresford
Opera
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart by Mitchell Cohen
Open Page
Open Page with Chris Masters
Medicine
How to Survive a Plague: The story of how activists and scientists tamed AIDS by David France
Literary Studies
That’s the Way It Crumbles: The American conquest of English by Matthew Engel
by Bruce Moore
Literary Studies
A New Literary History of Modern China edited by David Der-Wei Wang
Philosophy
Does Anything Really Matter?: Essays on Parfit on objectivity edited by Peter Singer
Australian History