March 2024, no. 462
The March issue of ABR opens with a volley of letters following Kevin Foster’s lively review of David McBride’s memoirs in the previous issue. The cover feature is a major essay from pioneering gay rights scholar Dennis Altman on being gay, eighty and a secular Australian Jew at a time of great violence and tension in the Middle East. Patrick Mullins wrestles with two books on Robert Menzies, and Clinton Fernandes shows why the European Union is founded on white myth. Nathan Hollier tells the remarkable story of Indonesia’s Buru novels – and Australia’s crucial role in them – and we review Gail Jones’s new novel. There are interviews with federal minister Andrew Leigh, historian Frank Bongiorno, and pianist-writer Anna Goldsworthy.
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Politics
The Penitent State: Exposure, mourning, and the biopolitics of national healing by Paul Muldoon
Politics
The Menzies Watershed edited by Zachary Gorman & Menzies versus Evatt by Anne Henderson
Classics
Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox & The Iliad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
Literary Studies
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the salvation of philosophy by Wolfram Eilenberger, translated by Shaun Whiteside
Europe
Eurowhiteness: Culture, empire and race in the European project by Hans Kundnani
History
Making Empire: Ireland, imperialism, and the early modern world by Jane Ohlmeyer
Literary Studies
Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend: Australian women’s war fictions by Donna Coates
by Sue Kossew
Literary Studies
The Bloomsbury Handbook to J.M. Coetzee edited by Andrew van der Vlies and Lucie Valerie Graham
by Tim Mehigan
Non-fiction
Critical Hits: Writers on gaming and the alternate worlds we inhabit edited by Carmen Maria Machado and J. Robert Lennon
by Chris Flynn
Natural History
What the Trees See: A wander through millennia of natural history in Australia by Dave Witty
by Ashley Hay
History
British Internment and the Internment of Britons: Second World War camps, history and heritage edited by Gilly Carr and Rachel Pistol
by Seumas Spark