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August 2021, no. 434

August 2021, no. 434

The August issue offers readers a feast of fiction, along with the magazine’s usual probing commentary and criticism. The issue features all three stories shortlisted for the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, as well as reviews of new books by Rachel Cusk, Tony Birch, Bill Birtles and ABR Rising Star Sarah Walker. In non-fiction, Stephen Bennetts highlights one of the overlooked contexts for the debate over Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, while Michael Dwyer recounts Australian journalists’ enduring fascination with China. The risks of border crossing are also weighed by Elisabeth Holdsworth and Seumas Spark in their reviews of recent books on the history of transportation. Brenda Walker and Jim Davidson pay tributes to the achievements of Hazel Rowley and Robin Boyd, respectively, and there are poems by Joan Fleming, John Kinsella, and Laurie Duggan – as well as plenty more!


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Full Contents

Essay Collection

In the Land of the Cyclops by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Literary Studies

Burning Man: The ascent of D.H. Lawrence by Frances Wilson

Fiction

Animal by Lisa Taddeo

Short Stories

The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories edited by Margaret Jull Costa

Fiction

The Other Half of You by Michael Mohammed Ahmad

Fiction

The Tribute by John Byron

Fiction

Dark as Last Night by Tony Birch

Fiction

Second Place by Rachel Cusk

Architecture

After The Australian Ugliness edited by Naomi Stead, Tom Lee, Ewan McEoin, and Megan Patty

Essay Collection

The First Time I Thought I Was Dying by Sarah Walker

Literary Studies

Alexander Pope in the Making by Joseph Hone

Shakespeare

Shakespeare and East Asia by Alexa Alice Joubin

Literary Studies

Life as Art: The biographical writing of Hazel Rowley by Della Rowley and Lynn Buchanan

Literary Studies

Along Heroic Lines by Christopher Ricks

Society

Doom by Niall Ferguson & The Premonition by Michael Lewis

Australian History

Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?: The Dark Emu debate by Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe

Letters to the Editor

by Judith Bishop, James Jiang