June 2025, no. 476
From frontier wars to artificial intelligence, the June issue of ABR explores Australia’s past and present – and what it all means for our future. In this first issue from Editor Georgina Arnott, we include a special long-form essay by philosopher and author Raimond Gaita on the irreducible humanity of others. Rebecca Strating reports on how Trump’s America is reshaping our global region and John Byron explains why the federal election result was not as emphatic as we might think. The June issue features Natasha Sholl’s stunning Calibre essay ‘The Chirp/The Scream’, and reviews by Kate Fullagar, André Dao, Clinton Fernandes, Emma Dawson, Kerryn Goldsworthy, and Marilyn Lake on books about the Middle East, national myth, and the careers of Jenny Macklin and Mary Fortune. We review fiction by James Bradley, Jennifer Mills, Matthew Hooton, poetry by Alan Wearne, theatre, books about Melanesia, Australian music, ‘inconvenient’ women, and much more.
Full Contents
The Great Betrayal: The struggle for freedom and democracy in the Middle East by Fawaz A. Gerges
Nation, Memory, Myth: Gallipoli and the Australian imaginary by Steve Vizard
My Fellow Americans: Presidents and their inaugural addresses edited by Yuvraj Singh
Outrageous Fortunes: The adventures of Mary Fortune, crime-writer, and her criminal son by Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex
Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The extraordinary lives of medieval women by Hetta Howes
Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the twentieth-century novel by Edwin Frank
Inconvenient Women: Australian radical writers 1900-1970 by Jacqueline Kent
The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia edited by Amanda Harris and Clint Bracknell
Culture is Not an Industry: Reclaiming art and culture for the common good by Justin O’Connor
An Unlikely Survival: The politics of welfare in Australia since 1950 by John Murphy
When Nothing Feels Real: A journey into the mystery illness of depersonalisation by Nathan Dunne
