Cirrus@Austlit

'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.' (Publication summary)