Robyn Ferrell All essays by Robyn Ferrell Review: Robyn Ferrellon John Keane The Shortest History of Democracy by John Keane Black Inc 240pp Published February 2022 ISBN: 9781760642563 ‘The Friend of Contingency’ Democracy, John Keane tells us, is the friend of contingency. Aug. 2022 • Australian literature • Non-fiction • Politics Review: Robyn Ferrellon Eleanor Hogan Into the Loneliness: The unholy alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates by Eleanor Hogan New South Books 448pp Published March 2021 ISBN: 9781742236599 Three Kinds of Loneliness These figures in Into the Loneliness are imbued with pathos and pity of a more particular, feminine frailty, no doubt more realistic. But this may be the strange effect of a woman biographing women subjects. Aug. 2021 • Australian literature • Non-fiction