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March 2009, no. 309
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Letters – March 2009
by
Australian Book Review
Advances
Advances – March 2009
by
Australian Book Review
'Lost Property', a new poem by Tracy Ryan
by
Tracy Ryan
Commentary
Commentary | I am the kind of person: Philip Roth and indignation by James Ley
by
James Ley
Literary Studies
Literary Activists: Writer-Intellectuals and Australian Public Life
by Brigid Rooney
by
Susan Lever
Fiction
Incandescence
by Greg Egan
by
Alice Gorman
Art
The Art of Australia, Volume 1: Exploration to Federation
by John McDonald
by
David Hansen
Fiction
The Rainy Season
by Myfanwy Jones
by
Rebecca Starford
Politics
The Statue of Liberty: How Australians Can Take Back Their Rights
by Geoffrey Robertson
by
Patrick Allington
Essay Collection
Serious Frolic: Essays on Australian Humor
edited by Fran de Greon and Peter Kirkpatrick
by
Robert Phiddian
Politics
Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East
by Gilles Kepel
by
Shahram Akbarzadeh
Religion
Superstition: Belief in The Age of Science
by Robert L. Park
by
Tamas Pataki
Commentary
Commentary | ‘So close and yet so far: Reading Australia across the Pacific’ by Nicholas Birns
by
Nicholas Birns
Politics
The Responsibility to Protect: End mass atrocity crimes once and for all
by Gareth Evans
by
Allan Gyngell
Philosophy
Trouble With Strangers: A study of ethics
by Terry Eagleton
by
Anthony Elliott
Philosophy
The Life You Can Save: Acting now to end world poverty
by Peter Singer
by
Anthony J. Langlois
Poetry
Speed & Other Liberties
by Andrew Sant
by
Anthony Lawrence
History
The Other Anzacs: Nurses at war, 1914–18
by Peter Rees
by
Beverley Kingston
Fiction
The Virtuoso
by Sonia Orchard
by
Carol Middleton
Non-fiction
Charles Darwin
by Tim M. Berra
&
Darwin’s Armada
by lain McCalman
by
David Lumsden
Memoir
Shots
by Don Walker
by
Dean Biron
Literary Studies
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry
by James Chandler and Maureen N. McLane
by
Deirdre Coleman
Memoir
The Land I Came Through Last
by Robert Gray
by
Ian Templeman
Fiction
Stray Dog Winter
by David Francis
by
Chad Habel
Fiction
The Museum
by Julian Halls
by
Jay Daniel Thompson
Cultural Studies
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture
by Kam Louie
by
Joan Grant
Politics
Blind Conscience
by Margot O’Neill
by
Jonathon Otis
Politics
John Howard and the Conservative Tradition
by Norman Abjorensen
by
Judith Brett
Poetry
The Other Way Out
by Bronwyn Lea
by
Lyn McCredden
Law
William Blackstone: Law and Letters in The Eighteenth-Century
by Michael Kirby
by
Michael Kirby
Children's Non-Fiction
Mike Shuttleworth reviews four children's non-fiction books
by
Mike Shuttleworth
Fiction
Pescador's Wake
by Katherine Johnson
by
Peter Pierce
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
ABR Poetry Prize Shortlist 2009
by
Australian Book Review
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