September 2019, no. 414
September 2019, no. 414
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Fiction
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The Pillars by Peter Polites
Reviewed by Crusader Hillis -
Here Until August: Stories by Josephine Rowe & This Taste for Silence: Stories by Amanda O’Callaghan
Reviewed by Bronwyn Lea -
The Rich Man’s House by Andrew McGahan
Reviewed by James Bradley -
The Returns by Philip Salom
Reviewed by Brenda Walker -
Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
Reviewed by Naama Grey-Smith -
From Here on, Monsters by Elizabeth Bryer
Reviewed by James Halford -
Shepherd by Catherine Jinks
Reviewed by David Whish-Wilson -
Being Various: New Irish short stories edited by Lucy Caldwell
Reviewed by Chris Flynn -
The Old Lie by Claire G. Coleman
Reviewed by Alison Whittaker
History
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Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the present day by Sheri Berman
Reviewed by Rémy Davison -
Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself: The mass suicides of ordinary Germans in 1945 by Florian Huber, translated by Imogen Taylor
Reviewed by Alexander Wells
Memoir
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Before I Forget: An early memoir by Geoffrey Blainey
Reviewed by Brenda Niall -
Hearing Maud by Jessica White
Reviewed by Rachel Robertson
Politics
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A Thousand Small Sanities: The moral adventure of liberalism by Adam Gopnik
Reviewed by Russell Blackford
Biography
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Henrik Ibsen: The man and the mask by Ivo de Figueiredo, translated by Robert Ferguson
Reviewed by Kári Gíslason -
Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, architect of the modern century by Mark Lamster
Reviewed by Patrick McCaughey -
Jean Blackburn: Education, feminism and social justice by Craig Campbell and Debra Hayes
Reviewed by Ilana Snyder
Essays
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Alexander von Humboldt: Selected writings by Andrea Wulf
Reviewed by Tom Griffiths
Commentary
Poetry
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The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem by Jeremy Noel-Tod
Reviewed by John Hawke
Poem
Architecture
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Capital Designs: Australia House and visions of an imperial London by Eileen Chanin
Reviewed by Jim Davidson
Interview
Jolley Prize
True Crime
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The Night Dragon by Matthew Condon
Reviewed by Ben Smith
Shakespeare
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How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
Reviewed by David McInnis
Music
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The Silent Musician: Why Conducting Matters by Mark Wigglesworth
Reviewed by Paul Kildea
Society
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See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill & Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo by Mithu Sanyal
Reviewed by Zora Simic -
How to Defend Australia by Hugh White
Reviewed by Chengxin Pan -
Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing by David Leser
Reviewed by Paul Dalgarno -
The Age of Consent: Young people, sexual abuse and agency edited by Kate Gleeson and Catharine Lumby
Reviewed by Dean Biron
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