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September 2022, no. 446

September 2022, no. 446

Welcome to the September issue of ABR. This month we look outwards, with articles on international politics and international relations. Our cover features include two compelling articles on Afghanistan by Kieran Pender and Kevin Foster, while James Curran examines Australia’s complicated relations with China. Elsewhere in the issue, Sheila Fitzpatrick reviews a new biography of Vladimir Putin and Luke Stegemann reviews two other books on Russia, including Fitzpatrick’s latest history of the Soviet Union. Alison Broinowski examines a new book by former foreign minister Gareth Evans. Also in the issue are reviews of new fiction from Sophie Cunningham, Siang Lu and Paul Daley along with Michael Hofmann’s appraisal of Elizabeth Hardwick’s uncollected essays. Other highlights include Tara McEvoy on Seamus Heaney in Australia and Michael Garbutt on Paris’s Museum of Mankind.

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Full Contents

Memoir

Unknown: A refugee’s story by Akuch Kuol Anyieth

Open Page

An interview with Robbie Arnott

by Australian Book Review
Economics

The New Economics: A manifesto by Steve Keen

Memoir

Bench and Book by Nicholas Hasluck

History

The Cowra Breakout by Mat McLachlan

Memoir

Life with Birds: A suburban lyric by Bronwyn Rennex

Poetry

Harvest Lingo: New poems by Lionel Fogarty

Poetry

Beginning in Sight by Theodore Ell & Trap Landscape by Nicholas Powell

Biography

Persons of Interest: An intimate account of Cecily and John Burton by Pamela Burton with Meredith Edwards

Lohrey by Julieanne Lamond

Fiction

Cut by Susan White & The Registrar by Neela Janakiramanan

Fiction

Jesustown: A novel by Paul Daley

Fiction

The Whitewash by Siang Lu

Fiction

This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham

Fiction

Tiepolo Blue by James Cahill

Essay Collection

The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick edited by Alex Andriesse

Russia

The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick & Collapse by Vladislav M. Zubok

Russia

Putin: His life and times by Philip Short

Letters to the Editor

by Tracy Ryan, Jim Dal, Naim Kassar and Stephen Kimber
Advances

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