July 2024, no. 466

The July issue of ABR features journalist Nicole Hasham’s searing Calibre essay on the Pilbara’s pockmarked mining landscape. Historian Joan Beaumont travels to Ambon, asking whether the ever-growing number of Australian war pilgrims reflects a turn towards ‘postmemory’. Timothy J. Lynch considers America’s unending conflict with itself, Ben Wellings writes about another fractured union in the United Kingdom, and Jessica Lake examines the use of defamation in sexual assault cases. There is new poetry from John Kinsella, Julie Manning, and Andrew Sant, and we review Seamus Heaney’s letters, new poetry from Judith Bishop, fiction by Colm Tóibín, Francesca de Tores, Dylin Hardcastle, Percival Everett, theatre, music, television and more.
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United States
The Forever War: America’s unending conflict with itself by Nick Bryant
United Kingdom
Fractured Union: Politics, sovereignty and the fight to save the United Kingdom by Michael Kenny
by Ben Wellings
Journalism
Stories That Want To Be Told: The Long Lede anthology by Arlie Alizzi et al.
by Theodore Ell
Gender
Trans Figured: On being a transgender person in a cisgender world by Sophie Grace Chappell
Literary Studies