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July–August 2007, no. 293
Welcome to the July–August 2007 issue of
Australian Book Review
.
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Letters
Letters – July–August 2007
by
James Ley, John Heard, Geordie Williamson, D.G. Rogers, Beryl Doble, and Jane Woollard
Australian History
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900
by Andrew Roberts
by
Geoffrey Blainey
Fiction
National Treasure
by Michael Wilding
by
Brian Matthews
Letters
Comment - John Leonard on the 2006 Anne Elder Award
by
John Leonard
Biography
Autobiography of My Mother: 2nd edition
by Meg Stewart
by
Gay Bilson
Society
A Social History of Dying
by Allan Kellehear
by
Anthony Elliott
YA Fiction
GriEVE
by Lizzie Wilcock
&
What Does Blue Feel Like?
by Jessica Davidson
by
Rebecca Starford
Journals
Griffith Review 16
edited by Julianne Schultz
&
HEAT 13
edited by Ivor Indyk
by
Georgina Arnott
Biography
Kevin Rudd
by Robert Macklin
&
Kevin Rudd
by Nicholas Stuart
by
Neal Blewett
Journals
Blast: Poetry and other critical writing, issue 4
edited by Ann Nugent
by
Steve Evans
Politics
His Master’s Voice: The corruption of public debate under Howard (Quarterly Essay 26)
by David Marr
by
Patrick Allington
Short Stories
Loyalties: Stories
by Laurie Clancy
by
Shirley Walker
Biography
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the margin of my time
by Clive James
by
Morag Fraser
'Bellbirds' a poem by Peter Rose
by
Peter Rose
'A Very Forgiving Medium', a poem by Peter Porter
by
Peter Porter
Letter collection
With Love and Fury
edited by Patricia Clarke and Meredith McKinney
&
Portrait of a Friendship
edited by Bryony Cosgrove
by
Lisa Gorton
Poetry
The Shorter Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus
by Gaius Valerius Catullus, translated by A.D. Hope
by
David Brooks
Film
Romulus, My Father
by
Nick Prescott
Poetry
It Feels Like Disbelief
by Paul Hetherington
by
Paul Kane
Advances
Advances July-August 2007
by
Australian Book Review
Poem
Fat Ben Jonson
by
Kate Middleton
Poetry
Helen of Troy and Other Poems
by Dimitris Tsaloumas
by
Nicholas Birns
Poetry
Flashing Eyes and Floating Hair: A reading of Gwen Harwood’s pseudonymous poetry
by Cassandra L. Atherton
by
Jennifer Strauss
Commentary
La Trobe University Essay | 'The ups, the downs: My life as a biographer' by Hazel Rowley
by
Hazel Rowley
Politics
Allied and Addicted
by Alison Broinowski
by
Michael Wesley
Picture Books
Tyger! Tyger!
by Elizabeth Stanley
by
Stephanie Owen Reeder
Fiction
Feather Man
by Rhyll McMaster
by
Christina Hill
Economics
The Soulful Science: What economists really do and why it matters
by Diane Coyle
by
Peter McLennan
Language
Translating Lives: Living with two languages and cultures
edited by Mary Besemeres and Anna Wierzbicka
by
Gillian Dooley
Literary Studies
Water From the Moon: Illusion and reality in the works of Australian novelist Christopher Koch
by Jean-François Vernay
by
Chad Habel
Indigenous Studies
Divided Nation: Indigenous Affairs and the Imagined Public
by Murray Goot and Tim Rowse
by
Anthony Moran
Politics
Don't Panic!: Nearly Everything is Better Than You Think
by Mark Cully
by
Mark Cully
Poetry
The Sweeping Plain
by Michael Sharkey
by
Andrew Burns
Poetry
Uplands
by Louise Crisp
by
Janet Upcher
Biology
The Evolution Revolution: Design Without Intelligence
by Ken McNamara and John Long
by
Ian Gibbins
Biography
The Feasts and Seasons of John F. Kelly
by Robert Pascoe
by
Michael McGirr
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