How to resolve AdBlock issue? 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
Full Contents
Commentary
Follow the leader: Democracy and the rise of the strongman (Quarterly Essay 71) by Laura Tingle
History
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world by Clare Wright
History
A Second Chance: The making of Yiddish Melbourne by Margaret Taft and Andrew Markus
by Tali Lavi
Commentary
Bibi: The turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu by Anshel Pfeffer
by Louise Adler
Literary Studies
Writers on Writers: Ceridwen Dovey on J.M. Coetzee by by Ceridwen Dovey
Art
What Matters?: Talking value in Australian Culture by Julian Meyrick, Robert Phiddian, and Tully Barnett
Politics
Island Off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of statecraft in Australian foreign policy by Clinton Fernandes
by David Brophy
Literary Studies
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Tóibín
Literary Studies
Half the Perfect World: Writers, dreamers and drifters on Hydra, 1955–1964 by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell
History
An American Language: The history of Spanish in the United States by Rosina Lozano
Fiction
The Making of Martin Sparrow: After the flood comes the reckoning by Peter Cochrane
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