March 2019, no. 409
2019 Porter Prize Shortlist
Reviewed by Australian Book Review
Progressive New World: How settler colonialism and transpacific exchange shaped American reform by Marilyn Lake
Reviewed by Ian Tyrrell
Letters to the Editor - March 2019
Reviewed by Marilyn Lake
Civilizing Torture: An American tradition by W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Reviewed by Prudence Flowers
The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the future of liberalism by Russell Blackford
Reviewed by Ceridwen Spark
Beyond Words: A year with Kenneth Cook by Jacqueline Kent
Reviewed by Susan Sheridan
Born to Rule? by Paddy Manning
Reviewed by Paul Williams
Visualising Human Rights edited by Jane Lydon
Reviewed by Alison Stieven-Taylor
A New History of the Irish in Australia by Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall
Reviewed by Michael McGirr
Lucida Intervalla by John Kinsella
Reviewed by Francesca Sasnaitis
Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany
Reviewed by James Ley
The Year of The Beast by Steven Carroll
Reviewed by Kerryn Goldsworthy
You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian
Reviewed by Amy Baillieu
Zebra & other Stories by Debra Adelaide
Reviewed by David Haworth
Fusion by Kate Richards
Reviewed by Chris Murray
The Last Wave by Gillian Best
Reviewed by Rose Lucas
Hare's Fur by Trevor Shearston
Reviewed by Jack Callil
The Boy from Brunswick: Leonard French, A biography by Reg MacDonald
Reviewed by Sheridan Palmer
Fryderyk Chopin: A life and times by Alan Walker
Reviewed by Paul Kildea
A Certain Idea of France: The life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson
Reviewed by Rémy Davison
The Years by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer
Reviewed by Gemma Betros
The Feather Boy & Other Poems by Judith Rodriguez
Reviewed by Jennifer Strauss
Green Shadows and Other Poems by Gerald Murnane
Reviewed by Geoff Page
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power by Stephen Greenblatt
Reviewed by David McInnis
The Thinking Woman by Julienne van Loon
Reviewed by Johanna Leggatt
The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain by Gina Rippon
Reviewed by Nick Haslam
Imperfect: How our bodies shape the people we become by Lee Kofman
Reviewed by Tali Lavi
Troll Hunting: Inside the world of online hate and its human fallout by Ginger Gorman
Reviewed by Jacinta Mulders
The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature by John Whittier Treat
Reviewed by Mark Gibeau
Call Them by Their True Names: American crises (and essays) by Rebecca Solnit
Reviewed by Daniel Juckes
No Place Like Home: Repairing Australia’s housing crisis by Peter Mares
Reviewed by Tom Bamforth