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November 2009, no. 316
Welcome to the November 2009 issue of
Australian Book Review
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ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Film
Film Adaptation and its Discontents: From Gone With The Wind to The Passion of The Christ
by Thomas Leitch
by
John Byron
Western Australia
Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia
edited by Jenny Gregory and Jan Gothard
by
Stuart Macintyre
Art
I Blame Duchamp: My Life’s adventures in art
by Edmund Capon
by
Patrick McCaughey
Open Page
Open Page with Andrea Goldsmith
by
Australian Book Review
Memoir
The Point of the Baton: Memoir of a conductor
by John Hopkins (with William Cottam)
by
Michael Shmith
Poem
'Judith Wright Arts Centre' a poem by Michael Hofmann
by
Michael Hofmann
Poem
'Arrival' a poem by Judith Bishop
by
Judith Bishop
Poem
'To Music' a poem by Thomas Shapcott
by
Thomas Shapcott
Fiction
Lovestong
by Alex Miller
by
Judith Armstrong
Fiction
Chris Womersley reviews 'Truth' by Peter Temple
by
Chris Womersley
Commentary
Mateship, Friendship and National Identity
by
Ronald A. Sharp
Commentary
The Unsentimental Bloke: Kenneth Cook and Wake in Fright
by
Jacqueline Kent
Advances
Advances - November 2009
by
Australian Book Review
Military History
Bardia: Myth, Reality and the Heirs of Anzac
by Craig Stockings
by
Karl James
Fiction
Paradise Updated
by Mic Looby
by
Belinda Burns
Fiction
The Contract
by Brett Hoffmann
by
Tony Smith
Picture Books
A survey of recent children's picture books by Stephanie Owen Reeder
by
Stephanie Owen Reeder
Journal
Paul Hetherington reviews 'The Warwick Review, Volume III No. 1, March 2009' edited by Michael Hulse
by
Paul Hetherington
Poetry
Harbour City Poems: Sydney in Verse 1788–2008
edited by Martin Langford
by
Gregory Kratzmann
Australian Fiction
The Australian Long Story
edited by Mandy Sayer
by
Kate McFadyen
Non-fiction
Reframing Darwin: Evolution and art in Australia
edited by Jeanette Hoorn
by
Jane Goodall
History
The Shortest History of Europe
by John Hirst
by
Wilfrid Prest
Politics
The Life and Death of Democracy
by John Keane
by
Dennis Altman
Fiction
Fill Out This Application and Wait Over There
by Ruth Starke
by
Chris Thompson
Fiction
Spiel
by David Sornig
by
Melinda Harvey
Poetry
Crab & Winkle: East Kent & Elsewhere, 2006–2007
by Laurie Duggan
by
Michael Farrell
Fiction
Sons of the Rumour
by David Foster
by
James Ley
Travel
Between Stations
by Kim Cheng Boey
by
Alison Broinowski
Fiction
Smoke in The Room
by Emily Maguire
by
Kate Holden
History
A History of Australian Defence and Foreign Policy 1901–23: Volume Two – Australia and World Crisis, 1914 – 1923
by Neville Meaney
by
Hugh White
Biography
Queen Elizabeth: The Queen Mother: The Official Biography
by William Shawcross
by
Barry Everingham
Climate Change
Why We Disagree About Climate Change
by Mike Hulme
&
Quarry Vision
by Guy Pearse
by
Rosaleen Love
Literary Studies
Literary Melbourne: A Celebration of writing and ideas
edited by Stephen Grimwade
by
Kylie Mirmohamadi
Poetry
Killing the Black Dog
by Les Murray
by
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Business
Killer Company: James Hardie exposed
by Matt Peacock
by
Peter McLennan
Psychology
In Two Minds: Tales of a psychotherapist
by Paul Valent
by
Sarah Kanowski
Poetry
Apples With Human Skin
by Nathan Shepherdson
by
Kevin Gillam
Commentary
'Curating Oz Lit: Creating the Australian Classics Library' by Robert Dixon
by
Robert Dixon
Letters
Letters - November 2009
by
Australian Book Review
Food
Of Sugar and Snow: The History of ice cream making
by Jeri Quinzio
by
Gay Bilson
Memoir
Piano Lessons
by Anna Goldsworthy
by
Claudia Hyles
Politics
The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the end of the liberal consensus
by Peter Sutton
by
David Trigger
Australian Fiction
The Right
by Matthew Karpin
by
Jeffrey Poacher
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