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November 2010, no. 326
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Society
Not For Profit: Why democracy needs the humanities
by Martha C. Nussbaum
by
Stuart Macintyre
Advances
News from the Editor's Desk
by
Australian Book Review
Letters
Letters to the Editor - November 2010
by
Australian Book Review
Features
A welcome extension to the National Gallery of Australia
by
Christopher Menz
Art
Brett Whiteley: A sensual line 1957–67
by Kathie Sutherland
by
Vivien Gaston
Biography
Man with a Blue Scarf: On sitting for a portrait
by Martin Gayford
by
Angus Trumble
Features
Patrick McCaughey reviews 'The Donald Friend Diaries' by Ian Britain
by
Patrick McCaughey
Features
Desert Country
by Nici Cumpston with Barry Patton
&
Yiwarra Kuju
by National Museum of Australia
by
Brenda L. Croft
Features
Love is the key word
by
Natalie King
Art
Helen Ennis reviews 'Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century' by Peter Galassi
by
Helen Ennis
Art
Gregory Kratzmann (ed.): Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval Europe
by
Stephanie Trigg
Art
John Thompson reviews 'The West and the Map of the World: A Reappraisal of the Past' by Matthew Richardson
by
John Thompson
Art
Christopher Menz reviews 'Victorian Visions' by Richard Beresford
by
Christopher Menz
Journals
Lyndon Megarrity reviews 'Australian Historical Studies, Volume 41, Issue 2' by Richard Broome and Dianne Kirkby
by
Lyndon Megarrity
Fiction
Jo Case reviews 'Hand Me Down World' by Lloyd Jones
by
Jo Case
Fiction
Peter Pierce reviews 'When Colts Ran' by Roger McDonald
by
Peter Pierce
Fiction
Murray Waldren reviews 'Nemesis' by Philip Roth
by
Murray Waldren
Memoirs
Felicity Plunkett reviews 'The Romantic' by Kate Holden
by
Felicity Plunkett
Poem
'The Blind Minotaur', a new poem by Judith Bishop
by
Judith Bishop
Politics
Peter Mares reviews 'Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania’s Forests' by Anna Krien
by
Peter Mares
Society
Rhyll McMaster reviews 'Sydney' by Delia Falconer
by
Rhyll McMaster
Poetry
Julian Croft reviews 'Fresh Linen' by Gary Catalano, 'The Hooded Lamp' by Roland Robinson, and 'At Valentines' by Ken Taylor
by
Julian Croft
Picture Books
A survey of recent children's picture books
by
Stephanie Owen Reeder
Young Adult Fiction
Thuy On reviews 'Big River Little Fish' by Belinda Jeffrey
by
Thuy On
Art
Paths to Abstraction 1867–1917
edited by Terence Maloon
by
Daniel Thomas
Art
Rupert Bunny: Artist in Paris
by by Deborah Edwards, with Denise Mimmocchi, David Thomas and Anne Gérard
by
Jane Clark
Art
A Beautiful Line: Italian Prints from Mantegna to Piranesi
by Maria Zagala
by
Justin Clemens
Art
Frank Hurley’s Antarctica
by Helen Ennis
by
Isobel Crombie
Art
Once Upon a Time in Papunya
by Vivien Johnson
by
Ian McLean
Biography
Unbridling the Tongues of Women: A biography of Catherine Helen Spence'
by Susan Magarey
by
Helen Thomson
Fiction
Between Sky and Sea
by Herz Bergner
by
Richard Freadman
Art
Khai Liew
by Peter Ward
by
Wendy Walker
Art
The Revolutionary Century
by Alison Carroll
&
Every 23 Days
by Sarah Bond, Alison Carroll and Claire Watson
by
Peter Hill
Art
Life, Death and Magic: 2000 years of Southeast Asian Ancestral Art
by Robyn Maxwell
by
Carol Cains
Art
Arnold Shore: Pioneer Modernist
by Rob Haysom
by
Felicity St John Moore
Music
Duke Ellington’s America
by Harvey G. Cohen
by
Michael Morley
Biography
John Keats: A Literary Life
by R.S. White
by
Peter Otto
Poetry
A Local Habitation: Poems and Homilies
by Peter Steele, edited by Sean Burke
by
Philip Harvey
Journals
Overland 200
edited by Jeff Sparrow
by
Patrick Allington
Memoirs
When It Rains: A Memoir
by Maggie Mackellar
by
Bernadette Brennan
Politics
Punch and Judy: The double disillusion election of 2010
by Mungo MacCallum
by
Joel Deane
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