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March 2011, no. 329
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Full Contents
Young Adult Fiction
Anna Ryan-Punch reviews 'Six' by Karen Tayleur
by
Anna Ryan-Punch
Picture Books
Stephanie Owen Reeder reviews eleven new children's picture books
by
Stephanie Owen Reeder
Australian History
Luke Morgan reviews 'The Garden of Ideas: Four Centuries of Australian Style' by Richard Aitken
by
Luke Morgan
Poetry
David McCooey reviews 'A Cool and Shaded Heart' and 'Ethical Investigations' by Noel Rowe
by
David McCooey
Story
'Half a house on a truck near T——', a new story by Wayne Macauley
by
Wayne Macauley
Film
Jake Wilson reviews 'Wake in Fright' by Tina Kaufman
by
Jake Wilson
Fiction
Cheryl Jorgensen reviews 'Bright and Distant Shores' by Dominic Smith
by
Cheryl Jorgensen
Fiction
Anthony Lynch reviews 'This Too Shall Pass' by S.J. Finn
by
Anthony Lynch
Fiction
Emma Ashmere reviews 'The Raven's Heart' by Jesse Blackadder
by
Emma Ashmere
Fiction
Don Anderson reviews 'The Simple Death' by Michael Duffy
by
Don Anderson
Fiction
Shaun Prescott reviews 'Black Glass' by Meg Mundell
by
Shaun Prescott
Politics
Anthony Moran reviews 'Disconnected' by Andrew Leigh
by
Anthony Moran
Politics
Joel Deane reviews 'The Art of Great Speeches and Why We Remember Them' by Dennis Glover
by
Joel Deane
History
Robin Prior reviews 'Churchill’s Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made' by Richard Toye
by
Robin Prior
Poem
'This Version of Love' a poem by Dorothy Hewett
by
Dorothy Hewett
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
'Openings', a new poem by Judith Bishop
by
Judith Bishop
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
'Moonlight Sculptures', a new poem by Stephen Edgar
by
Stephen Edgar
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
'Dreams and Artefacts', a new poem by Lisa Gorton
by
Lisa Gorton
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
'Self-portrait at Sixty', a new poem by Tony Lintermans
by
Tony Lintermans
Features
Dr Goldsworthy on Dr Chekhov
by
Peter Goldsworthy
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
'Humility, a new poem by Alex Skovron
by
Alex Skovron
Open Page
Open Page with Gail Jones
by
Hidden Author
Advances
News from the Editor's Desk
by
Hidden Author
Climate Change
Timothy Roberts reviews 'The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with "Climate Change" Turning out To Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?' by Christopher Booker
by
Timothy Roberts
Anthropology
Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory
by Patrick Wilcken
by
Grant Evans
Features
Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett
by Kate Lilley
by
Susan Sheridan
Features
The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth
by Lillian Nayder
by
Grace Moore
Art
Friendship in Art: Fou Lei and Huang Binhong
by Claire Roberts
by
Peter Hill
Language
Secret Language
by Barry J. Blake
by
Bruce Moore
Classics
The Classical Tradition
by Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis
by
Christopher Allen
Features
Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten 1913–1976: Volume Five 1958–1965
edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke
by
Andrew Ford
Politics
A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism
edited by Silvio Pons and Robert Service, translated by Mark Epstein and Charles Townsend
by
Stuart Macintyre
Features
The astonishing legacy of Sergei Diaghilev
by
Alan R. Dodge
Features
Offerings and jeremiads
by
Bruce Grant
Cultural Studies
Into the Light: 150 Years of Cultural Treasures at the University of Sydney
by David Ellis
by
John Thompson
Society
The Australian Book of Atheism
edited by Warren Bonett
by
Timothy Roberts
Journal
Parergon, Vol. 26, No. 2
edited by Anne M. Scott
&
Parergon, Vol. 27, No. 1
edited by Vanessa Smith and Richard Yeo
by
Gregory Kratzmann
Journal
That’s it for now from
HEAT
by
James Ley
Journal
Kill Your Darlings, No. 4
by Rebecca Starford
by
Tim Brewer
Literary Studies
Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World
by Lydia Wevers
by
Deirdre Coleman
Religion
Irfan Ahmad: The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad
by Jonathan E. Brockopp
by
Irfan Ahmad
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