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Absolutely Revolting

March 2018, no. 399

March 2018, no. 399

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Publisher of the Month

Publisher of the Month with Rod Morrison

Essay Collection

ABR RAFT Fellowship: 'God and Caesar in Australia' by Paul Collins

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Music

Ian Dickson reviews 'Close to the Flame: The life of Stuart Challender' by Richard Davis

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Photography

Kevin Rabalais reviews 'Avedon: Something Personal' by Norma Stevens and Steven M.L. Aronson

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Photography

Helen Ennis reviews 'Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife' by Pamela Bannos

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Classics

Greta Hawes reviews 'Revisiting Delphi: Religion and storytelling in Ancient Greece' by Julia Kindt

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History

Kate Griffiths reviews 'Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States' by James C. Scott

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Memoir

Dennis Altman reviews 'Logical Family: A memoir' by Armistead Maupin

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Essay Collection

Susan Sheridan reviews 'Elizabeth Harrower: Critical essays' edited by Elizabeth McMahon and Brigitta Olubas

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Literary Studies

Paul Genoni reviews 'The Drover's Wife' edited by Frank Moorhouse

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Fiction

Jill Jones reviews 'The Man Who Took To His Bed' by Alex Skovron

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Fiction

James Bradley reviews 'Dyschronia' by Jennifer Mills

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Fiction

Susan Lever reviews 'Off the Record' by Craig Sherborne

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Fiction

Gillian Dooley reviews 'Mrs M: An imagined history' by Luke Slattery

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Fiction

Tali Lavi reviews 'The Tattooist Of Auschwitz' by Heather Morris

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Fiction

Brenda Niall reviews 'The Shepherd’s Hut' by Tim Winton

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Fiction

Jay Daniel Thompson reviews 'The Lebs' by Michael Mohammed Ahmad

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Peter Porter Poetry Prize

2018 Porter Prize Shortlist

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Poetry

David McCooey reviews 'Renga: 100 poems' by John Kinsella and Paul Kane

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Poetry

Bruce Moore reviews 'Beowulf' translated by Stephen Mitchell

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Anthologies

Lucas Thompson reviews 'The Best Australian Essays 2017' edited by Anna Goldsworthy

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Education

Kirk Graham reviews 'How To Be An Academic: The thesis whisperer reveals all' by Inger Mewburn

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Anthologies

The Best Australian Science Writing 2017

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International Studies

David Fettling reviews 'Blood and Silk: Power and conflict in modern Southeast Asia' by Michael Vatikiotis

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Essay Collection

David Brophy reviews 'Without America: Australia in the New Asia' (Quarterly Essay 68) by Hugh White

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Indigenous Studies

Philip Jones reviews 'Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901' by Tim Rowse

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Psychology

Nick Haslam reviews 'Freud: The making of an illusion' by Frederick Crews

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Politics

Varun Ghosh reviews 'Collusion: How Russia helped Trump win the White House' by Luke Harding

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Politics

Barbara Keys reviews 'Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics' by Lawrence O’Donnell

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Politics

Natalie J. Doyle reviews 'Revolution' by Emmanuel Macron, translated by Jonathan Goldberg and Juliette Scott and 'The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron: The extraordinary rise and risk' by Adam Plowright

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Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - March 2018

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Politics

Gideon Haigh reviews 'Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House' by Michael Wolff

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Australian History

Deborah Zion reviews 'Ethics Under Fire: Challenges for the Australian army' edited by Tom Frame and Albert Palazzo

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Shakespeare

David McInnis reviews 'Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness' by Rhodri Lewis

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Military History

Martin Crotty reviews 'Palestine Diaries: The light horsemen’s own story, battle by battle' by Jonathan King

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Classics

Christopher Allen reviews 'Palmyra: An irreplaceable treasure' by Paul Veyne, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan

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