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May 2009, no. 311
Welcome to the May 2009 issue of
Australian Book Review.
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Fiction
Ransom
by David Malouf
by
Peter Rose
Fiction
Reunion
by Andrea Goldsmith
by
Judith Armstrong
Children's Fiction
Anna Ryan-Punch reviews four children's books
by
Anna Ryan-Punch
Reviews
Turtle
by Gary Bryson
by
Rjurik Davidson
Reviews
The Book of Emmett
by Deborah Forster
by
Jay Daniel Thompson
Reviews
Red Dress Walking
by S.A. Jones
by
Hannah Kent
Poem
'Bushfire Elegy' a poem by Joel Deane
by
Joel Deane
Poem
'Uncommitted Annotation' a poem by Peter Porter
by
Peter Porter
Poem
'say ...' a poem by Michael Farrell
by
Michael Farrell
Letters
Letters - May 2009
by
Australian Book Review
Advances
Advances - May 2009
by
Australian Book Review
Commentary
'‘In for “Higher Art” I’d Go’' At the National Portrait Gallery' by Humphrey McQueen
by
Humphrey McQueen
Commentary
'The Bard’s the Bard for a’ that: Robert Burns in Australia' by Graham Tulloch
by
Graham Tulloch
Commentary
'Revisiting Xavier Herbert’s Capricornia' by Elizabeth Webby
by
Elizabeth Webby
Cultural Studies
The Uses of Digital Literacy
by John Hartley
by
Ilana Snyder
Commentary
'A Lawson for our times' by Brian Matthews
by
Brian Matthews
Fiction
The Summer Exercises
by Ross Gibson
by
Marion May Campbell
Politics
The Best Australian Political Writing 2009
edited by Eric Beecher
by
Jay Daniel Thompson
Travel
The Red Highway
by Nicolas Rothwell
by
Gay Bilson
Non-fiction
The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s Comedies
by Penny Gay
by
Robert Phiddian
Art
The Golden Journey: Japanese art from Australian collections
by James Bennett and Amy Reigle Newland
by
Doug Hall
Religion
The Bible and The People
by Lori Anne Ferrell
by
Andrew McGowan
Poetry
The Complete Poems of T.H. Jones
edited by Don Dale-Jones and P. Bernard Jones
by
Tony Hassall
Memoirs
Innocent Abroad: An intimate account of American peace diplomacy in the Middle East
by Martin Indyk
by
Jonathan Pearlman
Memoir
Hey Mum, what’s a half-caste?
by Lorraine McGee-Sippel
by
Christina Houen
Reviews
Evolution in the Antipodes: Charles Darwin and Australia
by Tom Frame
by
Cameron Shingleton
Reviews
Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction
by Rowan Williams
by
Judith Armstrong
Reviews
Books As History: The importance of books beyond their texts
by David Pearson
by
Gillian Dooley
Poetry
Better Than God
by Peter Porter
by
John Kinsella
Biography
Arthur Miller
by Christopher Bigsby
by
Brian McFarlane
Memoir
Waiting Room: A memoir
by Gabrielle Carey
by
Claudia Hyles
Calibre Prize
Treasure Hunt
by
Rosaleen Love
Children's Fiction
Tashi and the Phoenix
by by Anna and Barbara Fienberg
by
Nigel Pearn
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