November 2018, no. 406

November 2018, no. 406

Welcome to the November issue of ABR! Highlights include:

• Review of the Month: Paul Strangio on Laura Tingle’s new Quarterly Essay Follow the Leader on Australian politics
• Beejay Silcox’s new Fellowship essay on the evolution of misery literature and trauma voyeurism in fiction
• Arts Highlights of the Year: twenty-nine critics nominate their most memorable events across the arts
• Astrid Edwards reviews Clementine Ford’s new book Boys Will Be Boys
• Jane Cadzow reviews the new memoir from Gillian Triggs
• Varun Ghosh on Bob Woodward’s book on Donald Trump
• Maggie MacKellar on Clare Wright’s new history of women’s progress in Australia

Follow the leader: Democracy and the rise of the strongman (Quarterly Essay 71) by Laura Tingle

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'The art of pain: Writing in the age of trauma' by Beejay Silcox

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Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

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2018 Arts Highlights of the Year

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You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world by Clare Wright

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Europe: A Natural History by Tim Flannery

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News from the Editor's Desk - November 2018

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Speaking Up by Gillian Triggs

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A Second Chance: The making of Yiddish Melbourne by Margaret Taft and Andrew Markus

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Boys Will Be Boys by Clementine Ford

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Bibi: The turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu by Anshel Pfeffer

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Writers on Writers: Ceridwen Dovey on J.M. Coetzee by by Ceridwen Dovey

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Crossing the Line: How Australian cricket lost its way by Gideon Haigh

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Debussy: A painter in sound by Stephen Walsh

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What Matters?: Talking value in Australian Culture by Julian Meyrick, Robert Phiddian, and Tully Barnett

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Rusted Off: Why country Australia is fed up by Gabrielle Chan

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Island Off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of statecraft in Australian foreign policy by Clinton Fernandes

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The Four Flashpoints: How Asia goes to war by Brendan Taylor

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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Tóibín

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Upstate by James Wood

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Shell by Kristina Olsson

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Half the Perfect World: Writers, dreamers and drifters on Hydra, 1955–1964 by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell

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When I Saw the Animal by Bernard Cohen

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Matryoshka by Katherine Johnson

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'"Coming On The Hudson": Weehawken' a new poem by August Kleinzahler

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An American Language: The history of Spanish in the United States by Rosina Lozano

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David McCooey reviews three poets at the height of their powers

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The River in the Sky by Clive James

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My Life, Our Times by Gordon Brown

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'Recital', a new poem by Judith Bishop

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Melodrome by Marcelo Cohen, translated by Chris Andrews

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The Making of Martin Sparrow: After the flood comes the reckoning by Peter Cochrane

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Open Page with Gideon Haigh