June 2025, no. 476
From frontier wars to artificial intelligence, the June issue of ABR explores Australia’s past and present – and what it all means for our future. In this first issue from Editor Georgina Arnott, we include a special long-form essay by philosopher and author Raimond Gaita on the irreducible humanity of others. Rebecca Strating reports on how Trump’s America is reshaping our global region and John Byron explains why the federal election result was not as emphatic as we might think. The June issue features Natasha Sholl’s stunning Calibre essay ‘The Chirp/The Scream’, and reviews by Kate Fullagar, André Dao, Clinton Fernandes, Emma Dawson, Kerryn Goldsworthy, and Marilyn Lake on books about the Middle East, national myth, and the careers of Jenny Macklin and Mary Fortune. We review fiction by James Bradley, Jennifer Mills, Matthew Hooton, poetry by Alan Wearne, theatre, books about Melanesia, Australian music, ‘inconvenient’ women, and much more.
June’s cover artwork is by Alice Lindstrom.
