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September 2019, no. 414
September 2019, no. 414
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Fiction
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
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
Before I Forget: An early memoir
by Geoffrey Blainey
Reviewed by
Brenda Niall
Hearing Maud
by Jessica White
Reviewed by
Rachel Robertson
Politics
A Thousand Small Sanities: The moral adventure of liberalism
by Adam Gopnik
Reviewed by
Russell Blackford
Biography
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
Alexander von Humboldt: Selected writings
by Andrea Wulf
Reviewed by
Tom Griffiths
Letters
Letters to the Editor - September 2019
Commentary
‘Things that never were: Contradictions in the 2019 federal election' by Dennis Altman
by
Dennis Altman
Poetry
The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem
by Jeremy Noel-Tod
Reviewed by
John Hawke
Poem
'Night Flight', a new poem by Sarah Holland-Batt
by
Sarah Holland-Batt
'Advantages of Stopovers', a new poem by Michael Farrell
by
Michael Farrell
Advances
News from the Editor's Desk - September 2019
Architecture
Capital Designs: Australia House and visions of an imperial London
by Eileen Chanin
Reviewed by
Jim Davidson
Interview
Open Page with Helen Garner
Jolley Prize
'The Point-Blank Murder'
by
Sonja Dechian
Jolley Prize 2019 (Shortlisted): 'Miracle Windows'
by
Raaza Jamshed
Jolley Prize 2019 (Shortlisted): 'Rubble Boy'
by
True Crime
The Night Dragon
by Matthew Condon
Reviewed by
Ben Smith
Shakespeare
How the Classics Made Shakespeare
by Jonathan Bate
Reviewed by
David McInnis
Music
The Silent Musician: Why Conducting Matters
by Mark Wigglesworth
Reviewed by
Paul Kildea
Society
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
Epiphany
Epiphany: 'Becoming Electra' by Jane Montgomery Griffiths
by
Jane Montgomery Griffiths
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