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June 2025, no. 476

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. 

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Full Contents

Advances

Advances – June 2025

by Australian Book Review
Letters

Letters – June 2025

by Diane Stubbings and Kym Houghton
Technology

The Shortest History of AI by Toby Walsh

Memoir

Making Progress: How good policy happens by Jenny Macklin with Joel Deane

Memoir

Searching for Charmian by Suzanne Chick

Literary Studies

Shakespeare’s Tragic Art by Rhodri Lewis

Fiction

Landfall by James Bradley

Fiction

Everything Lost, Everything Found by Matthew Hooton

Fiction

Salvage by Jennifer Mills

Fiction

The Sun Was Electric Light by Rachel Morton

Melanesia

Melanesia: Travels in Black Oceania by Hamish McDonald

Music

The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia edited by Amanda Harris and Clint Bracknell

Poetry

Mixed Business by Alan Wearne

Poetry

The Drop Off by David Stavanger

Poetry

Greatest Hits: Poems 1968-2021 by Tim Thorne

Interview

Open Page with Susan Hampton

by Australian Book Review
Fiction

Flesh by David Szalay