April 2024, no. 463
This April ABR considers the importance of talk. In his cover essay, historian Frank Bongiorno argues that the Albanese government’s storytelling, not just its actions, directs the ‘possibilities of politics’. Sheila Fitzpatrick gives a moving portrait of her friendship with ‘recording angel’ Katerina Clark and G. Geltner pushes us to rethink our Middle-Ages chatter. Sascha Morrell comes around to the ‘winks and nudges’ in a major new biography of Frank Moorhouse and Frances Wilson insists Hilary Mantel will speak for herself in death. Glyn Davis tells us about a floating university and Morag Fraser puzzles over mothers. There’s Michael Hofmann on Nam Le’s 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, Stuart Kells on rogue corporations, and Robyn Arianrhod on the moon.
Full Contents
The New World Disorder: How the West is destroying itself by Peter R. Neumann, translated by David Shaw
A Memoir of My Former Self: A life in writing by Hilary Mantel, edited by Nicholas Pearson
The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in laughter, love and resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
Mothers of the Mind: The remarkable women who shaped Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and Sylvia Plath by Rachel Trethewey
The Floating University: Experience, empire, and the politics of knowledge by Tamson Pietsch
The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten ancient creatures that make us human by Julia Kindt
Rogue Corporations: Inside Australia’s biggest business scandals by Quentin Beresford
The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on effective altruism, engaged Buddhism, and how to build a better world by Peter Singer and Shih Chao-Hwei
Expanding Mindscapes: A global history of psychedelics by Erika Dyck and Chris Elcock
Pursuit of the New: Louise Hanson-Dyer, publisher and collector edited by Kerry Murphy and Jennifer Hill
Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK by Brett Mason
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