March 2019, no. 409

March 2019, no. 409
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Full Contents

Peter Porter Poetry Prize

2019 Porter Prize Shortlist

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Poem

'Flight from Manus' by Behrouz Boochani

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Commentary

'The resilience of non-fiction publishing' by Dominic Kelly

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History

Ian Tyrrell reviews Progressive New World by Marilyn Lake

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Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - January-February 2019

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Letters

Letters to the Editor - March 2019

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History

Prudence Flowers reviews Civilizing Torture: An American tradition by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

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Politics

Ceridwen Spark reviews The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the future of liberalism by Russell Blackford

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Memoir

Susan Sheridan reviews Beyond Words: A year with Kenneth Cook by Jacqueline Kent

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Politics

Paul Williams reviews Born to Rule? by Paddy Manning

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Photography

Alison Stieven-Taylor reviews Visualising Human Rights edited by Jane Lydon

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History

Michael McGirr reviews A New History of the Irish in Australia by Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall

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Fiction

Francesca Sasnaitis reviews Lucida Intervalla by John Kinsella

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Fiction

James Ley reviews Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany

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Fiction

Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews The Year of The Beast by Steven Carroll

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Fiction

Amy Baillieu reviews You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian

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Fiction

David Haworth reviews Zebra & other Stories by Debra Adelaide

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Open Page

Open Page with Debra Adelaide

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David Whish-Wilson reviews three new crime novels

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Fiction

Chris Murray reviews Fusion by Kate Richards

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Fiction

Rose Lucas reviews The Last Wave by Gillian Best

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Fiction

Jack Callil reviews Hare's Fur by Trevor Shearston

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Biography

Sheridan Palmer reviews The Boy from Brunswick: Leonard French, A biography by Reg MacDonald

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Biography

Paul Kildea reviews Fryderyk Chopin: A life and times by Alan Walker

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Biography

Rémy Davison reviews A Certain Idea of France: The life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson

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Biography

Gemma Betros reviews The Years by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer

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Poetry

Jennifer Strauss reviews The Feather Boy & Other Poems by Judith Rodriguez

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Poetry

Geoff Page reviews Green Shadows and Other Poems by Gerald Murnane

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Shakespeare

David McInnis reviews Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power by Stephen Greenblatt

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Commentary

Johanna Leggatt reviews The Thinking Woman by Julienne van Loon

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Science and Technology

Nick Haslam reviews The Gendered Brain by Gina Rippon

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Commentary

Tali Lavi reviews Imperfect: How our bodies shape the people we become by Lee Kofman

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Commentary

Jacinta Mulders reviews Troll Hunting by Ginger Gorman

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International Studies

Mark Gibeau reviews The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature by John Whittier Treat

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Essay Collection

Daniel Juckes reviews Call Them by Their True Names: American crises (and essays) by Rebecca Solnit

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Commentary

Tom Bamforth reviews No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s housing crisis by Peter Mares

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