July 2025, no. 477
This July, ABR looks at major global shifts underway. Sheila Fitzpatrick reports from Europe on the changing face of World War II commemorations and James Curran examines the ledger in Australia’s relationship with the United States. We announce the ABR Science Fellow and feature reviews of books about Antarctica, carbon, rivers, and genetics. Geoff Raby, Shan Windscript, and Nick Hordern review revelatory new titles on Russia, China, and Ukraine, and our fiction reviewers consider novels by Gail Jones, Isabel Allende, Jane Caro, and more. ABR publishes ‘Consolation of Clouds’ by Robin Boord, which was placed third in the 2025 Calibre Essay Prize, Felicity Plunkett reviews Antigone Kefala’s poetry and fiction, and Kirli Saunders is Poet of the Month.
Full Contents
The Southern Frontier: Australia, Antarctica and Empire in the Southern Ocean world by Rohan Howitt
Striking Ore: The rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara by Alexis Vassiley
The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian relations in the nineteenth century by Barbara Emerson
A Bunker in Kyiv: The astonishing story of the people’s army defying Putin by John Lyons with Sylvie Le Clezio
Bombard the Headquarters!: The Cultural Revolution in China by Linda Jaivin
Jilya: How one Indigenous woman from the remote Pilbara transformed psychology by Tracy Westerman
My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende translated from Spanish by Francis Riddle
Silent Catastrophes: Essays in Austrian literature by W.G. Sebald, translated from German by Jo Catling
Dysphoria Mundi: A diary of planetary transition by Paul B. Preciado
Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and institutions from the Black Death to Covid by Sheilagh Ogilvie
Gull Force: Australian POWs on Ambon and Hainan, 1941-45 by Joan Beaumont
