May 2024, no. 464
This issue includes the winning essay in the Calibre Essay Prize. Scott Stephens considers clerical narcissism and brutality, and Patrick Mullins reviews a new profile of Peter Dutton, that former copper with a ‘suspicious instinct’. In her review of James Bradley’s Deep Water, Felicity Plunkett asks why we turn away from disaster’s proximity, Tony Hughes-d’Aeth explores an ‘inflexion point in Indigenous letters’, ex-ambassador Geoff Raby ponders ‘Chairman of everything’ Xi Jinping, and Alice Whitmore reviews the new-old Gabriel García Márquez. Essays from Heather Neilson and Maggie Nolan look at Gore Vidal’s posthumous life and the expansion of Australia’s storytelling database, AustLit. We review novels by Charmian Clift, Melanie Joosten, Liam Pieper, Siang Lu; poetry by David Brooks and Omar Sakr; film, music, memoir and more.
Full Contents
Bad Cop: Peter Dutton’s strongman politics (Quarterly Essay 93) by Lech Blaine
Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein debate to the riddle of entanglement by Jim Baggott and John L. Heilbron
Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-male sexual relations, 1400-1750 by Noel Malcolm
No Country for Idealists: The making of a family of subversives by Boris Frankel
The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of memory, mourning and consolation edited by Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project edited by Anne-Marie Te Whiu
Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury by Robert Adamson, edited by Devin Johnston
Troubled Minds: Understanding and treating mental illness by Sidney Bloch and Nick Haslam
Climate Change and International History: Negotiating science, global change, and environmental justice by Ruth A. Morgan
God and the Angel: Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier’s tour de force of Australia and New Zealand by Shiroma Perera-Nathan
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The jazz singer who transformed American song by Judith Tick
Selected Stories by Franz Kafka, translated and edited by Mark Harman
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