May 2025, no. 475
ABR marks the end of an era as Peter Rose publishes his final issue after twenty-four transformative years as Editor. We feature Peter’s final Diary and tributes from senior contributors, including new Editor Georgina Arnott, and we announce the creation of the Peter Rose Editorial Cadetship. Also in the issue, we announce the winners of the 2025 Calibre Essay Prize, now worth $10,000, and feature the winning essay. Simon Tormey investigates ‘British politics in an era of poly-crisis’ and ABR turns its eye to colonial legacies as it considers Näku Dhäruk by Clare Wright and Unsettled by Kate Grenville. We review books about second-wave feminist Beatrice Faust, Henry James, and Dante, the Hong Kong exhibition Picasso/Asia, and books by Colm Tóibín, Robert Dessaix, Sonia Orchard, Bill Gates, Josephine Rowe, Gregory Day and more.
Full Contents
Acts of community: Reflections on Peter Rose’s time as Editor
Groomed: A memoir about abuse, the search for justice and how we fail to keep our children safe by Sonia Orchard
Ellmann’s Joyce: The biography of a masterpiece and its maker by Zachary Leader
On Writers and Writing by Henry James and edited by Michael Gorra & Henry James Comes Home by Peter Brooks
Colonials, Expatriates, Radicals, Moderns and Postmoderns: Essays in Australian literature by Michael Wilding
The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Gallant and edited by Garth Risk Hallberg
The Great Transformation: China’s road from revolution to reform by Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian
The Ancients: Discovering the world’s oldest surviving trees in wild Tasmania by Andrew Darby
The Lost Orchid: A story of Victorian plunder and obsession by Sarah Bilston
From Convict Printers to Book Arcades: A history of the book in Australia, Volume I: 1788-1890 edited by Wallace Kirsop, Elizabeth Webby and Judy Donnelly
Publishers of the Month with Linsay and John Knight
Jesus Wept: Seven popes and the battle for the soul of the Catholic Church by Philip Shenon
The Wild Reciter: Poetry and popular culture in Australia 1890 to the present by Peter Kirkpatrick
