Australian Book Review

August 2019, no. 413

August 2019, no. 413

Also in this issue

Bruce Pascoe reviews On Identity and Australia Day by Stan Grant

2019 Calibre Essay Prize (Winner): 'Nah Doongh’s Song' by Grace Karskens

Publisher of the Month with Rachel Bin Salleh

The White Girl

Sandra R. Phillips

Ellen van Neerven reviews The Yield by Tara June Winch

'So much at stake: Forging a treaty with authority and respect' by Sarah Maddison and Dale Wandin

'Behrouz Boochani and the politics of naming' by Omid Tofighian

Omid Tofighian

Open Page with Bruce Pascoe

'Walgajunmanha All Time', a new poem by Charmaine Papertalk Green

Epiphany: 'A Night at the Opera' by Deborah Cheetham

'Living in the Indigenous space' by Lynette Russell

Artist’s Statement from Brenda L. Croft

Brenda L. Croft

Anna Clark reviews Australia’s First Naturalists: Indigenous peoples’ contribution to early zoology by Penny Olsen and Lynette Russell

Bruce Moore reviews Australia’s Original Languages: An introduction by R.M.W. Dixon

Richard J. Martin reviews The Colonial Fantasy: Why white Australia can’t solve black problems by Sarah Maddison

Michael Winkler reviews A Stolen Life: The Bruce Trevorrow case by Antonio Buti and My Longest Round by Wally Carr and Gaele Sobott

Stephen Dedman reviews Bowraville by Dan Box

Kelly D. Wiltshire reviews A Little History of Archaeology by Brian Fagan

Dan Dixon reviews Trick Mirror: Reflections on self-delusion by Jia Tolentino

Judith Bishop reviews The Gang Of One: Selected poems by Robert Harris

Paul Giles reviews Permanent Revolution: The reformation and the illiberal roots of liberalism by James Simpson

Robin Gerster reviews Postcolonial Heritage and Settler Well-Being: The historical fictions of Roger Mcdonald by Christopher Lee

Keyvan Allahyari reviews Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s–1940s by David Carter and Roger Osborne

Patrick Allington reviews Bodies of Men by Nigel Featherstone

'Don’t Feel Sorry About It', a new poem by Robert Harris

Euzebiusz Jamrozik reviews Defeating the Ministers of Death: The compelling history of vaccination by David Isaacs

Julia Kindt reviews Socrates in Love: The making of a philosopher by Armand D’Angour

News from the Editor's Desk - August 2019

'Songline contraband', a new poem by Samuel Wagan Watson

Samuel Wagan Watson

Ilana Snyder reviews Antisemitism: Here and now by Deborah Lipstadt

James Halford reviews Mouthful of Birds: Stories by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell

Phoebe Weston-Evans reviews Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, translated by Frank Wynne

David Haworth reviews Growing Up Aboriginal In Australia edited by Anita Heiss

Chris Flynn reviews Minotaur by Peter Goldsworthy

Paul Williams reviews Plots And Prayers: Malcolm Turnbull’s demise and Scott Morrison’s ascension by Niki Savva