November 2018, no. 406
Follow the leader: Democracy and the rise of the strongman (Quarterly Essay 71) by Laura Tingle
Reviewed by Paul Strangio
Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
Reviewed by Varun Ghosh
2018 Arts Highlights of the Year
Reviewed by ABR Arts
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world by Clare Wright
Reviewed by Maggie MacKellar
Europe: A Natural History by Tim Flannery
Reviewed by David Garrioch
Speaking Up by Gillian Triggs
Reviewed by Jane Cadzow
A Second Chance: The making of Yiddish Melbourne by Margaret Taft and Andrew Markus
Reviewed by Tali Lavi
Boys Will Be Boys by Clementine Ford
Reviewed by Astrid Edwards
Bibi: The turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu by Anshel Pfeffer
Reviewed by Louise Adler
Writers on Writers: Ceridwen Dovey on J.M. Coetzee by by Ceridwen Dovey
Reviewed by Felicity Plunkett
Crossing the Line: How Australian cricket lost its way by Gideon Haigh
Reviewed by Kieran Pender
Debussy: A painter in sound by Stephen Walsh
Reviewed by Paul Kildea
What Matters?: Talking value in Australian Culture by Julian Meyrick, Robert Phiddian, and Tully Barnett
Reviewed by Gabriella Coslovich
Rusted Off: Why country Australia is fed up by Gabrielle Chan
Reviewed by Shaun Crowe
Island Off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of statecraft in Australian foreign policy by Clinton Fernandes
Reviewed by David Brophy
The Four Flashpoints: How Asia goes to war by Brendan Taylor
Reviewed by Daniel Flitton
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Tóibín
Reviewed by Simon Caterson
Upstate by James Wood
Reviewed by Brenda Niall
Shell by Kristina Olsson
Reviewed by Susan Wyndham
Half the Perfect World: Writers, dreamers and drifters on Hydra, 1955–1964 by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell
Reviewed by Brian Matthews
When I Saw the Animal by Bernard Cohen
Reviewed by Anthony Lynch
Matryoshka by Katherine Johnson
Reviewed by Alice Nelson
An American Language: The history of Spanish in the United States by Rosina Lozano
Reviewed by Timothy Verhoeven
The River in the Sky by Clive James
Reviewed by Geoff Page
My Life, Our Times by Gordon Brown
Reviewed by Simon Tormey
'Recital', a new poem by Judith Bishop
Reviewed by Judith Bishop
Melodrome by Marcelo Cohen, translated by Chris Andrews
Reviewed by Alice Whitmore
The Making of Martin Sparrow: After the flood comes the reckoning by Peter Cochrane
Reviewed by David Whish-Wilson