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November 2007, no. 296
Welcome to the November 2007 issue of
Australian Book Review
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ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Art
George W. Lambert Retrospective: Heroes & icons
by Anne Gray
by
Patricia Fullerton
Media
The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer
by Paul Barry
&
Who Killed Channel 9?
by Gerald Stone
by
Margaret Simons
Art
Australian Pastoral: The making of a white landscape
by Jeannette Hoorn
by
Daniel Thomas
Biography
Courage: Eight portraits
by Gordon Brown
by
John Button
Poetry
Event
by Judith Bishop
by
Rose Lucas
Fiction
Landscape of Farewell
by Alex Miller
by
Shirley Walker
History
Napoleon: The path to power 1769–1799
by Philip Dwyer
by
David Garrioch
Australian History
Ochre And Rust: Artefacts and encounters on Australian frontiers
by Philip Jones
by
Mary Eagle
Australian History
The Australians: Insiders and outsiders on the national character since 1770
edited by John Hirst
by
John Rickard
Diaries
The Diaries of Donald Friend, Vol. 4
edited by Paul Hetherington
by
Paul Brunton
Fiction
The Fern Tattoo
by David Brooks
by
Judith Armstrong
Fiction
The Lost Dog
by Michelle de Kretser
by
Geordie Williamson
Gay Studies
What Happened To Gay Life?' by Robert Reynolds
by Robert Reynolds
by
Andy Quan
Poem
'Mary Shelley', a poem by Maria Takolander
by
Maria Takolander
Biography
Nolan on Nolan: Sidney Nolan in his own words
edited by Nancy Underhill
by
Damian Smith
Commentary
'How ignorant we are' by Jaynie Anderson
by
Jaynie Anderson
Reveries: Photography and mortality
by Helen Ennis
by
Isobel Crombie
River
by
Judith Beveridge
Poetry
Field Guide
by
Ian Gibbins
Poetry
Old/New World: New & selected poems
by Peter Skrzynecki
by
Anthony Lynch
Letters
Letters to the Editor
by
Virginia Lowe, Ruth Starke, Thea Biesheuvel
Art
Bertram Mackennal: The Fifth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project
by Deborah Edwards
by
Christopher Menz
Memoir
Bad Hair Days
by Pamela Bone
by
Gregory Kratzmann
Art
Australian Impressionism
edited by Terence Lane
by
Vivien Gaston
Art
Christopher Menz reviews 'Julie Blyfield' by Stephanie Radok and Dick Richards
by
Christopher Menz
Photography
Alisa Bunbury reviews 'A Century in Focus: South Australian Photography 1840s-1940s' by Julie Robinson and Maria Zagala
by
Alisa Bunbury
Advances
Advances November 2007
by
Australian Book Review
Biography
Against the Grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian history and politics
edited by Stuart Macintyre and Sheila Fitzpatrick
by
Nick Fischer
Poetry
Petra White reviews 'Parts of Speech' by Angela Gardner
by
Petra White
Printed Images in Colonial Australia 1801-1901
edited by Roger Butler
&
Printed Images by Australian Artists 1885-1955
edited by Roger Butler
by
John McPhee
Journals
Antipodes, vol. 21, no. 1, 2007
edited by Nicholas Birns
&
Southerly, vol. 67, no. 1-2, 2007
edited by David Brooks and Noel Rowe
by
Ian Templeman
War
The New American Militarism
by Andrew J. Bacevich
&
Unintended Consequences
by Kenneth J. Hagan and Ian J. Bickerton
by
Richard Broinowski
Australian History
Designing Australia's Cities: Culture, commerce, and the city beautiful 1900–1930
by Robert Freestone
by
Richard Aitken
Memoirs
Gillian Dooley reviews 'The Woman on the Mountain' by Sharyn Munro
by
Gillian Dooley
Reviews
Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight
by Nick Earls and Rebecca Sparrow
by
Ruth Starke
Fiction
UTS Writers' Anthology
edited by Tricia Barton et al.
by
Matthew Clayfield
Media
Inside Spin: The Dark underbelly of the the PR industry
by Bob Burton
by
Grant Bailey
Cartoons
Man of Steel: A Cartoon history of the Howard years
edited by Russ Radcliffe
by
Robert Phiddian
Fiction
Napoleon's Double
by Antoni Jach
by
Margaret Sankey
History
Nature as Model: Salomon De Caus and early seventeenth century landscape design
by Luke Morgan
by
Charles Zika
Non-fiction
Right Book, Right Time: 500 Great reads for teenangers
by Agnes Nieuwenhuizen
by
Nigel Pearn
Art
The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art
by Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch and Emily McCulloch Childs
by
Susan Lowish
Essay Collection
‘Another Colosse on hand'
by
Clive Probyn
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