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January–February 2025, no. 472

January–February 2025, no. 472

In the January-February issue, we feature our annual Arts Highlights, as nominated by twenty-one critics and arts professionals. We also reveal the 2025 Peter Porter Poetry Prize shortlisted poems. Matthew Lamb reviews a book on Elon Musk, Eve Vincent assesses Rick Morton’s deep dive into Robodebt, and Mark Finnane has a fascinating article on the new phenomenon of Citational Justice in academic research.  Julie Janson reviews a book of provocative Indigenous visions, Nick Hordern weighs Geoff Raby’s account of the Russia/China struggle, and Jonathan Ricketson reviews the adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novels. There’s Toby Davidson on Francis Webb, Georgina Arnott on Judith Wright, and reviews of works by Robert Fisk, Joe Aston, John Farnham, Inga Simpson, Kim Carr, Al Pacino, and more.

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Advances

Advances – January–February 2025

by Australian Book Review
Media

Character Limit: How Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac

by Matthew Lamb
Politics

On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st century by Tony Blair

by Gordon Pentland
Science

The Best Australian Science Writing 2024 edited by Jackson Ryan and Carl Smith

by Diane Stubbings
Oceans

The High Seas: Ambition, power and greed on the unclaimed ocean by Olive Heffernan

by Killian Quigley
Memoir

A Long March by Kim Carr

by Joel Deane
Memoir

Sonny Boy: A memoir by Al Pacino

by Jordan Prosser