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April 2018, no. 400
W
elcome to the April 400th issue! Highlights include:
Beejay Silcox on Australian magazine culture
Lucas Grainger-Brown’s Calibre Prize-winning essay
Neal Blewett’s review of Kevin Rudd’s memoir
David Brophy on
Silent Invasion
by Clive Hamilton
Poetry by
John Kinsella
,
Gig Ryan
, and
Judith Beveridge
Sarah Sentilles is our Open Page guest
Full Contents
Advances
Editorial on ABR's 400th issue by Peter Rose
by
Peter Rose
Calibre Prize
2018 Calibre Essay Prize (Winner): 'We Three Hundred'
by
Lucas Grainger-Brown
Commentary
'Defying the moment' by Beejay Silcox
by
Beejay Silcox
China
Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia
by Clive Hamilton
by
David Brophy
Memoir
Not for the Faint-hearted: A personal reflection on life, politics and purpose
by Kevin Rudd
by
Neal Blewett
Commentary
'Odysseus and me' by Andrea Goldsmith
by
Andrea Goldsmith
Biography
Simon Leys: Navigator between worlds
by Philippe Paquet, translated by Julie Rose
by
Ian Donaldson
Russian History
Red Flag Unfurled: History, historians, and the Russian Revolution
by Ronald Grigor Suny
by
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Advances
News from the Editor's Desk - April 2018
by
Australian Book Review
Fiction
The Death of Noah Glass
by Gail Jones
by
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Memoir
John Curtin’s War: Volume I
by John Edwards
by
James Walter
Anthropology
Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering ancient Australia
by Billy Griffiths
by
Kim Mahood
Fiction
In the Garden of the Fugitives
by Ceridwen Dovey
by
Ashley Hay
Letters
Letters to the Editor - April 2018
by
Australian Book Review
Russia
Gorbachev: His life and times
by William Taubman
by
Barbara Keys
Biography
Three Duties and Talleyrand’s Dictum:: Keith Waller: Portrait of a working diplomat
by Alan Fewster
by
Geoffrey Blainey
Biography
Truth’s Fool: Derek Freeman and the war over cultural anthropology
by Peter Hempenstall
by
Simon Caterson
Biography
The Boy from Baradine
by Craig Emerson
by
Lyndon Megarrity
Letters
The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume 1: 1940-1956
by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil
by
Felicity Plunkett
Essays
Feel Free: Essays
by Zadie Smith
by
Sarah Holland-Batt
Essays
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
edited by Darryl Pinckney
by
Patrick McCaughey
Essays
The Mother of all Questions: Further feminisms
by Rebecca Solnit
by
Johanna Leggatt
Politics
America Looks to Australia: The hidden role of Richard Casey in the creation of the Australia–America alliance, 1940–1942
by James Prior
by
Rémy Davison
True Crime
A Scandal in Bohemia: The life and death of Mollie Dean
by Gideon Haigh
by
Anna MacDonald
Classics
Mythos
by Stephen Fry
by
Julia Kindt
Fiction
A Stolen Season
by Rodney Hall
by
Brian Matthews
Literary Studies
What Editors Do: The art, craft, and business of book editing
edited by Peter Ginna
by
Richard Walsh
Fiction
The Everlasting Sunday
by Robert Lukins
by
Anna MacDonald
Poem
'Inverting Hölderlin’s "Geh unter, schöne Sonne"' by John Kinsella
by
John Kinsella
Poetry
Interval
by Judith Bishop
by
Jill Jones
Poetry
'Spring Idylls' by Gig Ryan
by
Gig Ryan
Poetry
'The Boathouse' by Judith Beveridge
by
Judith Beveridge
Publisher of the Month
Publisher of the Month with Nathan Hollier
Open Page
Open Page with Sarah Sentilles
Fiction
Incredible Floridas
by Stephen Orr
by
Gregory Day
Russia
The Long Hangover: Putin’s new Russia and the ghosts of the past
by Shaun Walker
by
Kieran Pender
Music
Sticky Fingers: The life and times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone magazine
by Joe Hagan
by
Anwen Crawford
Advances
400th issue subscriber giveaway
by
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