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May 2005, no. 271
Welcome to the May 2005 issue of
Australian Book Review.
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Memoir
Playing with Water
by Kate Llewellyn
by
Judy Armstrong
Cultural Studies
Imagining Australia: Literature and culture in the new new world
edited by Judith Ryan and Chris Wallace-Crabbe
by
Lisa Gorton
Theatre
John Rickard reviews productions of ‘The Ham Funeral’ and ‘Journal of the Plague Year’
by
John Rickard
Fiction
Alison Says
by Suzanne Hawley
by
Lisa Temple
Australian History
Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier violence and stolen Indigenous children in Australian history
edited by A. Dirk Moses
by
Marilyn Lake
Education
Pam MacIntyre reviews four books
by
Pam Macintyre
Natural History
The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia
by Michael F. Braby
by
Peter Menkhorst
Fiction
Affection
by Ian Townsend
by
Peter Pierce
Travel
A Month of Sundays
by James O'Loghlin
by
Phil Brown
Journalism
Absurdistan: A bumpy ride through some of the world's scariest, weirdest places
by Eric Campbell
by
Philip Clark
Education
The Writing Experiment: Strategies for innovative creative writing
by Hazel Smith
by
Rick Hosking
History
Washout: On the academic response to the fabrication of Aboriginal history
by John Dawson
by
Robert Manne
Children's Non-Fiction
Money Smart Kids
by Dianne Bates
&
Hoosh! Camels in Australia
by Janeen Brian
by
Robyn Sheahan-Bright
Children's Fiction
Stephanie Owen Reeder reviews five books
by
Stephanie Owen Reeder
Memoir
Who Says I Can't?: A Memoir
by Catherine DeVrye
by
Robert Reynolds
Politics
Islam and the West: Reflections from Australia
edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh and Samina Yasmeen
by
Samiul Hasan
Art
Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 herald exhibition of French and British contemporary art
by Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller (with Judith Pugh)
by
Sarah Thomas
International Studies
The Tragedy of the Middle East
by Barry Rubin
by
Shahram Akbarzadeh
Memoir
Father and Daughter
by Muriel Mathers
by
Shirley Walker
Children's and Young Adult Fiction
Slaughterboy
by Odo Hirsch
by
Stephanie Trigg
Journalism
In the Shadow of Swords: On the trail of terror from Afghanistan to Australia
by Sally Neighbour
by
Vivienne Kelly
Commentary
Commentary | Travellers' tales by Bridget Griffen-Foley
by
Bridget Griffen-Foley
Poem
‘Mulberries and the Death of the Literary Novel’, a new poem by Alan Gould
by
Alan Gould
Poem
‘She Lets Go’, a new poem by Brendan Ryan
by
Brendan Ryan
Poem
‘The Last Gruppetti’, a new poem by Peter Porter
by
Peter Porter
Advances
Advances - May 2005
by
Hidden Author
Letters
Letters - May 2005
by
Hidden Author
Letters
‘Letter from Baltimore’ by Angus Trumble
by
Angus Trumble
Essay
La Trobe University Essay | ‘Spasms of Assertion: The Politics and Aesthetics of Blogging’ by Richard Johnstone
by
Richard Johnstone
Commentary
‘National News’ by Graeme Powell
by
Graeme Powell
Fiction
The Stone Ship
by Peter Raftos
by
Carolyn Tétaz
Politics
Anti-Americanism
edited by Andrew Ross and Kristen Ross
by
Brendon O'Connor
Indigenous Studies
RENE BAKER FILE #28/E.D.P.
by Rene Powell and Bernadette Kennedy
by
Ceridwen Spark
Short Stories
Vincenzo's Garden
by John Clanchy
by
Christina Hill
Poetry
Punch On Punch Off
by Geoff Goodfellow
&
Fontanelle
by Andrew Lansdown
by
David Gilbey
Literary Studies
Dickens and Empire: Discourses of class, race and colonialism in the works of Charles Dickens
by Grace Moore
by
Graham Tulloch
Politics
The Persuaders: Inside the hidden machine of political advertising
by Sally Young
by
Grant Bailey
Fiction
The Marsh Birds
by Eva Sallis
by
Irene Drumm
Biography
Bombay to Bloomsbury: A biography of the Strachey family
by Barbara Caine
by
Ian Britain
International Studies
An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and other histories of Sumatra
by Anthony Reid
by
John Monfries
Commentary
‘Gallery Notes’ by Jaynie Anderson
by
Jaynie Anderson
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