Australian Book Review

May 2018, no. 401

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May 2018, no. 401

Also in this issue

2018 Calibre Essay Prize (runner-up): 'Once Again: Outside in the House of Art'

Alan Atkinson reviews 'The Bible in Australia: A cultural history' by Meredith Lake

Morag Fraser reviews 'What Are We Doing Here?: Essays' by Marilynne Robinson

Chris Flynn reviews 'Property' by Lionel Shriver

News from the Editor's Desk - May 2018

Billy Griffiths reviews 'This Time: Australia’s republican past and future' by Benjamin T. Jones

Shaun Crowe reviews 'On Borrowed Time' by Robert Manne

Dorothy Driver reviews 'Outsiders: Five women writers who changed the world' by Lyndall Gordon

Richard J. Martin reviews '"Against Native Title": Conflict and Creativity in Outback Australia' by Eve Vincent and 'Crosscurrents: Law and society in a native title claim to land and sea' by Katie Glaskin

Gillian Dooley reviews 'A Sand Archive' by Gregory Day

Patrick McCaughey reviews 'Reason and Lovelessness: Essays, encounters, reviews 1980–2017' by Barry Hill

'Natality' by Anne Elvey

'The Field' by Ian Patterson

'Four Rooms' by Julie Manning

Ross McKibbin reviews 'Fall Out: A year of political mayhem' by Tim Shipman

Andrew Broertjes reviews 'Franklin D. Roosevelt: A political life' by Robert Dallek

Max Holleran reviews 'Fortress America: How we embraced fear and abandoned democracy' by Elaine Tyler May

Amy Baillieu reviews 'Flames' by Robbie Arnott

Shannon Burns reviews 'Relatively Famous' by Roger Averill

Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover reviews 'Crime and Punishment' by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater

Lisa Bennett reviews 'A pple and Knife' by Intan Paramaditha, translated by Stephen J. Epstein

Josephine Taylor reviews 'The Lucky Galah' by Tracy Sorensen

Gretchen Shirm reviews 'You Belong Here' by Laurie Steed

Anna MacDonald reviews 'The Fortress' by S.A. Jones

David McCooey reviews 'Who Reads Poetry: 50 views from Poetry Magazine' edited by Fred Sasaki and Don Share

Benjamin Ivry reviews 'Our Life Grows' by Ryszard Krynicki, translated by Alissa Valles

David Dick reviews 'Archipelago' by Adam Aitken and 'Present' by Elizabeth Allen

James Bennett reviews 'Normality: A critical genealogy' by Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens

Brigitta Olubas reviews 'Bronwyn Oliver: Strange things' by Hannah Fink

Pam Brown is Poet of the Month

Open Page with Justine Ettler

James Ley reviews 'Why Dylan Matters' by Richard F. Thomas

Paul Watt reviews 'Destiny: The extraordinary career of pianist Eileen Joyce' by David Tunley, Victoria Rogers, and Cyrus Meher-Homji

John Arnold reviews 'The People’s Force: A History of Victoria Police' by Robert Haldane

Joan Fleming reviews 'Domestic Interior' by Fiona Wright and 'The Tiny Museums' by Carolyn Abbs

Michael Falk reviews 'What the Victorians made of Romanticism: Material artifacts, cultural practices, and reception history' by Tom Mole

Marama Whyte reviews 'The face that launched a thousand lawsuits: The American women who forged a right to privacy' by Jessica Lake

Christopher Allen reviews 'Keeping Their Marbles: How the treasures of the past ended up in museums ... and why they should stay there' by Tiffany Jenkins

David Rolph reviews 'Ma’am Darling: Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret' by Craig Brown

Dion Kagan reviews 'Desire: A memoir' by Jonathan Dollimore