August 2017, issue no. 393
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
June-July 2017
'Salt Blood' by Michael Adams, winner of the 2017 Calibre Essay Prize
Varun Ghosh reviews two books on Barack Obama's legacy
Robin Gerster reviews Việt Nam: A History from earliest times to the present by Ben Kiernan
Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
May 2017
James McNamara reviews two books on the Trump presidency
Elizabeth McMahon reviews 'A History of New Zealand Literature' edited by Mark Williams
Beejay Silcox reviews '4321' by Paul Auster
Andrew Fuhrmann reviews 'No Way but This: In Search of Paul Robeson' by Jeff Sparrow
