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March 2024, no. 462

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 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

Literary Studies

The Bloomsbury Handbook to J.M. Coetzee edited by Andrew van der Vlies and Lucie Valerie Graham

Fiction

One Another by Gail Jones

Fiction

The Great Undoing by Sharlene Allsopp

Fiction

My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown

Fiction

Politica by Yumna Kassab

Poetry

Ghosts of Paradise by Stephen Edgar

Poetry

Mishearing by David Musgrave & AfterLife by Kathryn Lomer

Non-fiction

Critical Hits: Writers on gaming and the alternate worlds we inhabit edited by Carmen Maria Machado and J. Robert Lennon

Society

Kin: Family in the 21st century by Marina Kamenev