May 2018, no. 401

Welcome to the May issue! Highlights include:
- 'Once Again: Outside in the House of Art' by Kirsten Tranter
- Alan Atkinson on a new study of the Bible in Australia
- Morag Fraser on a new book of essays by Marilynne Robinson
- Billy Griffiths on Australia's overdue republic
- Shaun Crowe on a new book of essays by Robert Manne
- Pam Brown is Poet of the Month
- Justine Ettler is our Open Page guest
Full Contents
Literary Studies
Outsiders: Five women writers who changed the world by Lyndall Gordon
Indigenous Studies
Against Native Title by Eve Vincent & Crosscurrents by Katie Glaskin
Essays
Reason and Lovelessness: Essays, encounters, reviews 1980–2017 by Barry Hill
United States
Fortress America: How we embraced fear and abandoned democracy by Elaine Tyler May
by Max Holleran
Fiction
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater
Poetry
Who Reads Poetry: 50 views from Poetry Magazine edited by Fred Sasaki and Don Share
Poet of the Month
Pam Brown is Poet of the Month
Open Page
Open Page with Justine Ettler
Music
Destiny: The extraordinary career of pianist Eileen Joyce by David Tunley, Victoria Rogers, and Cyrus Meher-Homji
by Paul Watt
Literary Studies
What the Victorians made of Romanticism: Material artifacts, cultural practices, and reception history by Tom Mole
by Michael Falk
Society
The face that launched a thousand lawsuits: The American women who forged a right to privacy by Jessica Lake
by Marama Whyte