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December 1985–January 1986, no. 77
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Cricket
After Stumps Were Drawn: The best of Ray Robinson's cricket writing
edited by Jack Pollard
by
John McCarthy
Commentary
Starters & Writers
by
Mark Rubbo
Fiction
A Family Madness
by Thomas Keneally
by
Ludmilla Forsyth
Fiction
The Morality of Gentlemen
by Amanda Lohrey
&
This Freedom
by John Morrison
by
Laurie Clancy
Commentary
Self-Portrait in Various Prose Styles with Attendant Props and Dad
by
Morris Lurie
Fiction
Foxybaby
by Elizabeth Jolley
by
Brian Dibble
Advances
Abbreviations
by
John Hanrahan
Literary Studies
Overland 100
edited by Stephen Murray-Smith
by
John McLaren
Sport
Trumper: The illustrated biography
by Ashley Mallett
by
Eric Lord
Australian History
Evil Angels: The death of Azaria Chamberlain in the central Australian desert, and the events leading to judgement
by John Bryson
by
Spiro Zavos
Art
Tom Roberts 1856–1931: A catalogue raisonné
by Helen Topliss
by
Jim Davidson
Fiction
Benton’s Conviction
by Geoff Page
by
David Mathews
Fiction
The Search for Harry Allway
by Alex Buzo
by
Karen Harle
Art
City Bushmen: The Heidelberg School and the rural mythology
by Leigh Astbury
by
Jane Clark
Fiction
Good Mates!
by Paul Radley
by
John McLaren
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature
edited by William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton, and Barry Andrews
by
John Hanrahan
Art
Images In Opposition: Australian landscape painting 1801–1890
by Tim Bonyhady
by
Leigh Astbury
Fiction
The Glasshouse
by Natalie Scott
by
Susan Lever
History
Rupert Murdoch: A paper prince
by George Munster
by
Kevin Childs
Literary Studies
Aboriginal Writing Today
edited by Jack Davis and Bob Hodge
by
Tony Scanlon
Politics
The Whitlam Government 1972–1975
by E.G. Whitlam
by
Margaret Jones
Cartoon
Ramming the Shears
by Michael Leunig
by
Vane Lindesay
Poetry
Chris Wallace-Crabbe reviews 'Poems for an Exhibition' by R.H. Morrison, 'Outer Charting' by Hal Colebatch, and 'The Flower Industry' by Andrew Sant
by
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Journalism
Snow Jobs
by Morris Lurie
by
Alexander Buzo
Poetry
The Typewriter Considered As Bee-trap
by Martin Johnston
&
Fast Forward
by Peter Porter
by
Evan Jones
Fiction
Lines Of Flight
by Marion Campbell
&
Postcards from Surfers
by Helen Garner
by
Sandra Moore
Obituary
Obituary for A.A. Phillips – A man of letters
by
John McLaren
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