October 2017, issue no. 395
November 2010 no. 326
Peter Rose on Remembering Gore Vidal
It was David Marr who commented that the key character in Gore Vidal’s first memoir, Palimpsest (1995), was not Jimmie Trimble, the boy whom Vidal loved when they were at school ... More
News from the Editor's Desk
Art talk
We suspect that this issue of ABR, at eighty pages in the print edition, is our longest yet. There were so many books to accommodate, plus a welcome new cohort ... More
Peter Craven, Richard Broinowski
No statues for critics
Dear Editor,
I am sorry that Judith Armstrong should have such difficulty follow ... More
A welcome extension to the National Gallery of Australia
Lightness and clarity
by Christopher Menz
The initial idea was for a new front door at the National Gallery of Australia. At least that is how Ron Radfor ... More
Also in this issue
Terence Maloon (ed.): Paths to Abstraction
Daniel ThomasKathie Sutherland: Brett Whiteley
Vivien GastonMartin Gayford: Man with a Blue Scarf
Angus TrumbleIan Britain (ed.): The Donald Friend Diaries
Patrick McCaugheyCarol Jerrems
Natalie KingPeter Galassi: Henri Cartier-Bresson
Helen EnnisMaria Zagala: A Beautiful Line
Justin ClemensHelen Ennis: Frank Hurley's Antarctica
Isobel CrombieVivien Johnson: Once Upon a Time in Papunya
Ian McLeanPeter Ward: Khai Liew
Wendy WalkerRobyn Maxwell: Life, Death and Magic
Carol CainsRob Haysom: Arnold Shore
Felicity St John MooreMatthew Richardson: The West and the Map of the World
John ThompsonRichard Beresford: Victorian Visions
Christopher MenzJeff Sparrow (ed.): Overland 200
Patrick AllingtonLloyd Jones: Hand Me Down World
Jo CaseRoger McDonald: When Colts Ran
Peter PiercePhilip Roth: Nemesis
Murray WaldrenKate Holden: The Romantic
Felicity PlunkettMaggie Mackellar: When it Rains
Bernadette BrennanThe Blind Minotaur
Judith BishopAnna Krien: Into the Woods
Peter MaresMungo MacCallum: Punch and Ludy
Joel DeaneDelia Falconer: Sydney
Rhyll McMasterHarvey G. Cohen: Duke Ellington's America
Michael MorleyR.S. White: John Keats
Peter OttoPeter Steele: A Local Habitation
Philip HarveyA survey of children's picture books
Stephanie Owen ReederRecent Issues
September 2017
Philip Jones discusses the Bruce Chatwin phenomenon in 'Beyond Songlines'
Peter Rose on the same-sex marriage debate
John Rickard on Judith Brett's long awaited biography of Alfred Deakin
August 2017
The three shortlisted stories in this year’s Jolley Prize
Darius Sepehri’s Calibre Prize essay ‘To Speak of Sorrow’
Tom Griffiths reviews a new book on the climate catastrophe
Bernadette Brennan on Sarah Sentilles’s hymn for the victims of war
