January–February 2018, no. 398

January–February 2018, no. 398

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Art

Christopher Menz reviews 'Featherston' by Geoff Isaac

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Opera

Michael Halliwell reviews 'The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart' by Mitchell Cohen

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Society

Alex Tighe reviews 'Tinkering: Australians reinvent DIY culture' by Katherine Wilson

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Film

Desley Deacon reviews 'The Best Film I Never Made: And other stories about a life in the arts' by Bruce Beresford

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Anthologies

Dan Dixon review 'The Best of The Lifted Brow: Volume Two' edited by Alexander Bennetts

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Cricket

Bernard Whimpress reviews 'Feeling is the Thing that Happens in 1000th of a Second: A season of cricket photographer Patrick Eagar' by Christian Ryan and 'Lillee & Thommo: The deadly pair’s reign of terror' by Ian Brayshaw

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Biology

Rachael Mead reviews 'The Secret Life of Whales: A marine biologist’s revelations' by Micheline Jenner

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Law

John Eldridge reviews 'The Campaign against the Courts: A history of the judicial activism debate' by Tanya Josev

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Education

Paul Giles reviews 'No End of a Lesson: Australia’s unified national system of higher education' by Stuart Macintyre, André Brett, and Gwilym Croucher

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Media

Blanche Clark reviews 'Dissent: The student press in 1960s Australia' by Sally Percival Wood

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Fiction

Rachael Mead reviews 'Seabirds Crying in the Harbour Dark' by Catherine Cole

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Fiction

Anna MacDonald reviews 'Her' by Garry Disher

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Australian History

Lucas Thompson reviews 'Mirror Sydney' by Vanessa Berry

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Poem

Herr Doktor Tulp’s Interrogation (1942)

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Poetry

Toby Fitch reviews 'Brink' by Jill Jones and 'Passage' by Kate Middleton

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Biography

Peter Goldsworthy reviews 'Miłosz: A biography' by Andrzej Franaszek, edited and translated by Aleksandra Parker and Michael Parker

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Fiction

Lisa Bennett reviews 'The Art of Navigation' by Rose Michael

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Biography

Brian McFarlane reviews 'Anthony Powell: Dancing to the music of time' by Hilary Spurling

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Literary Studies

2017 Publisher Picks

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Fiction

Lilit Thwaites reviews 'All My Goodbyes' by Mariana Dimópulos, translated by Alice Whitmore

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Anthology

Rachel Robertson reviews 'The Best Australian Stories 2017' edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke

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Fiction

Lisa Gorton reviews 'Dunbar' by Edward St Aubyn

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Fiction

Brenda Niall reviews 'Mrs Osmond' by John Banville

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Memoir

Danielle Clode reviews 'Adventures of a Young Naturalist: The Zoo Quest expeditions' by David Attenborough

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Memoir

Susan Wyndham reviews 'The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992' by Tina Brown

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Memoir

Mimi Biggadike reviews 'Coming to my Senses: The making of a counterculture cook' by Alice Waters

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Memoir

Richard Walsh reviews 'Memoirs' by Mike Willesee

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Memoir

Brenda Niall reviews 'A Life of My Own' by Claire Tomalin

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Literary Studies

David McCooey reviews 'David Malouf and the Poetic: His earlier writings' by Yvonne Smith

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Politics

Kevin Foster reviews 'No Front Line: Australia’s special forces at war in Afghanistan' by Chris Masters

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Politics

Frank Bongiorno reviews 'The Pivot of Power: Australian prime ministers and political leadership 1949–2016' by Paul Strangio, Paul ‘t Hart, and James Walter

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History

Barbara Keys reviews 'The Cold War: A world history' by Odd Arne Westad

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Biography

Michael Winkler reviews 'Tracker: Stories of Tracker Tilmouth' by Alexis Wright

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Letters

Letters to the Editor - January-February 2018

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Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - January-February 2018

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Medicine

Robert Reynolds reviews 'How to Survive a Plague: The story of how activists and scientists tamed AIDS' by David France

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United States

Andrew Broertjes reviews 'Richard Nixon: The life' by John A. Farrell

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Australian History

John Arnold reviews 'La Trobe: Traveller, writer, governor' by John Barnes

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Literary Studies

Bruce Moore reviews 'That’s the Way It Crumbles: The American conquest of English' by Matthew Engel

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Literary Studies

Nicholas Jose reviews 'A New Literary History of Modern China' edited by David Der-Wei Wang

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Philosophy

Janna Thompson reviews 'Does Anything Really Matter?: Essays on Parfit on objectivity' edited by Peter Singer

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Australian History

Francesca Sasnaitis reviews 'Beautiful Balts: From displaced persons to new Australians' by Jayne Persian

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