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March 2025, no. 473

March 2025, no. 473

ABR looks at lives and their legacies. Timothy J. Lynch reviews a biography of Ronald Reagan, Sheila Fitzpatrick another on Angela Merkel, and Simon Tormey surveys a memoir by Boris Johnson. We have Susan Sheridan on Joan Lindsay, Glyn Davis on great leaders, and James Walter on Robert Menzies. Our cover features You Yang Ponds by Fred Williams and Christopher Allen reviews The Diaries of Fred Williams, 1963-1970 by Patrick McCaughey. Ebony Nilsson unearths letters sent to Menzies during the Petrov Affair and Andrea Goldsmith addresses her ‘unread books’.  We review works by Fredric Jameson and Colm Tóibín, about Indie porn, films The Brutalist and Babygirl, a poetry collection from Eileen Chong, fiction by Olga Tokarczuk and much more.

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Advances

Advances – March 2025

by Australian Book Review
Letters

Letters – March 2025

by Misha Ketchell, Mark Finnane, et al.
Biography

Reagan: His life and legend by Max Boot

by Timothy J. Lynch
Biography

Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021 by Angela Merkel with Beate Baumann translated from the German by Alice Tetley-Paul et al.

by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Biography

Unleashed by Boris Johnson

by Simon Tormey
Politics

Let’s Tax Carbon: And other ideas for a better Australia by Ross Garnaut

by Joel Deane
Politics

Australia: The politics of degraded democracy by William Maley

by Dominic Kelly
Politics

The Menzies Ascendency: Fortune, stability, progress 1954-1961 edited by Zachary Gorman

by James Walter