Nicholas Jose
The bar is set high
It was a great pleasure to read this year’s Calibre winning and commended essays in ABR. The essays written by Jane Goodall, Kevin Brophy and Rosa-leen Love continue the impressive tradition inaugurated by Elisabeth Holdsworth with her memorable work that won the first Calibre Prize. The bar is set high.
... (read more)Eurasia without Borders: The dream of a leftist literary commons 1919–1943 by Katerina Clark
The Gleaner Song by by Song Lin, translated by Dong Li & Vociferate | 詠 by Emily Sun
One Day I’ll Remember This: Diaries 1987–1995 by Helen Garner
The China Journals: Ideology and intrigue in the 1960s by Hugh Trevor-Roper, edited by Richard Davenport-Hines
A New Literary History of Modern China edited by David Der-Wei Wang
To celebrate the best books of 2017 Australian Book Review invited nearly forty contributors to nominate their favourite titles. Contributors include Michelle de Kretser, Susan Wyndham, James Ley, Geordie Williamson, Jane Sullivan, Tom Griffiths, Mark Edele, and Brenda Niall.
... (read more)Originally published in German, Albrecht Dümling’s The Vanished Musicians: Jewish refugees in Australia (Peter Lang), a fascinating compendium of Jewish musicians who found refuge in Australia in the 1930s and 1940s, is now available in Australian Diana K. Weekes’s excellent translation ...
... (read more)'Bobbin Up was written in 1958 during eight weeks of the coldest Sydney winter on record', recalled Dorothy Hewett in her introduction to the Virago Modern Classics reprint of her ...
... (read more)Books of the Year is always one our most popular features. Find out what our 41 contributors liked most this year – and why.
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