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May 2008, no. 301
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Unnerving integrity
by
Nicholas Birns
High ideals
by
Robert Gibson
Without a shell
by
Kate McFadyen
Fiction
The Spare Room
by Helen Garner
by
Peter Rose
Fiction
James Ley reviews
Breath
by Tim Winton
by
James Ley
Memoir
Unstill Life
by Judith Pugh
&
Self-Portrait of the Artist’s Wife
by Irena Sibley
by
Vivien Gaston
Indigenous Studies
Macquarie PEN anthology of Aboriginal literature
edited by Anita Heiss and Peter Minter
by
Jaya Savige
Literary Studies
J.M. Coetzee reviews 'The Modernist Papers' by Frederic Jameson
by
J.M. Coetzee
History
History’s Children: History Wars in the Classroom
by Anna Clark
by
John Hirst
Religion
Seduced by Grace: Contemporary spirituality, gay experience and Christian faith
by Michael Bernard Kelly
by
John Rickard
Memoir
Births Deaths Marriages
by Georgia Blain
&
The After Life
by Kathleen Stewart
by
Shirley Walker
Memoir
Stanley and Sophie
by Kate Jennings
by
Michael Williams
Poem
‘Invisible Hinges’ by Chris Andrews
by
Chris Andrews
Poem
‘Poem’ by Philip Mead
by
Philip Mead
Poem
'Who Can Say When Her Time Is?' by Jill Jones
by
Jill Jones
Non-fiction
Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation
by Antonia Finnane
by
Gloria Davies
Very white men
by
Warwick Anderson
Poetry
As We Draw Ourselves
by Barry Hill
by
Martin Duwell
Biography
I am Melba
by Ann Blainey
by
Michael Shmith
Advances - May 2008
by
Australian Book Review
Australian History
The bellwether state
by
David Moore
Biography
Triumph over the past
by
Yossi Klein
Poetry
Generation of '08?
by
Maria Takolander
Australian History
Secret war business
by
Russell McGregor
War
Burdens of war
by
Hugh White
Non-fiction
Dark territory
by
Julian Burnside
Australian History
Surface collectors
by
Maria Nugent
From the Archives
Body, Brain and the New Science of Communication: Turns of Phrase, Figures of Speech
by
Ian Gibbins
John Button
by
Morag Fraser
Winner takes all
by
Patrick Allington
Children's Non-Fiction
Happy ending
by
Stephanie Owen Reeder
Young Adult Fiction
Living in limbo
by
Maya Linden
Letters
Letters
by
Australian Book Review
Literary Studies
How Fiction Works
by James Wood
by
Stephanie Bishop
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