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November 2011, no. 336
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Full Contents
Advances
News from the Editor's Desk
by
Hidden Author
Letters
Letters to the Editor - November 2011
by
Hidden Author
Features
Cold Light
by Frank Moorhouse
by
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Features
James Ley reviews 'Silence' by Rodney Hall
by
James Ley
Features
Bad News: Murdoch’s Australian and the Shaping of the Nation (Quarterly Essay 43)
by Robert Manne
by
Robert Phiddian
Biography
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM, Second Edition
by Don Watson
by
Glyn Davis
Features
'On the making of a poetic anthology' by Geoffrey Lehmann
by
Geoffrey Lehmann
Poem
'Feel Free', a new poem by John Ashbery
by
John Ashbery
Features
'The legendary influence and career of Diana Gribble (1942–2011)' by W.H. Chong
by
W.H. Chong
Essay Collection
Singing for All He’s Worth: Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg
by Alex Skovron, Raimond Gaita, and Alex Miller
by
Andrea Goldsmith
International Studies
The Politics of Prisoner Abuse: The United States and Enemy Prisoners after 9/11
by David P. Forsythe
by
Alison Broinowski
Indigenous Studies
A Different Inequality: The politics of debate about remote Aboriginal Australia
by Diane Austin-Broos
by
Emma Kowal
Climate Change
David Karoly reviews 'The Garnaut Review 2011: Australia in the Global Response to Climate Change' by Ross Garnaut
by
David Karoly
Australian History
The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia
by Bill Gammage
by
Geoffrey Blainey
Australian History
Into the Unknown: The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt
by John Bailey
by
Darrell Lewis
Society
The Adelaide Park Lands: A Social History
by Patricia Sumerling
by
Bernard Whimpress
Society
Liberty: A History of Civil Liberties in Australia
by James Waghorne and Stuart Macintyre
by
Terry Lane
History
Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia 1900 to the Present
by Neville Kirk
by
Robert Dare
Fiction
The Monsoon Bride
by Michelle Aung Thin
by
Elena Gomez
Fiction
Foal’s Bread
by Gillian Mears
by
Gillian Dooley
Fiction
Nicolas Low reviews 'What the Family Needed' by Steven Amsterdam
by
Nicolas Low
Fiction
The Magic of It
by Michael Wilding
by
Jeffrey Poacher
Fiction
Hergesheimer Hangs In
by Morris Lurie
by
Don Anderson
Fiction
Bury Me Vertical
by R.M. Winn
by
Tim Howard
Fiction
Romy Ash reviews 'Cargo' by Jessica Au
by
Romy Ash
Fiction
Claudia Hyles reviews 'To Silence' by Subhash Jaireth
by
Claudia Hyles
Poem
'Least Said', a new poem by John Tranter
by
John Tranter
Architecture
Marion Mahony Reconsidered
by David van Zanten
by
Alasdair McGregor
Story
'Nitrogen', a new story by Meg Mundell
by
Meg Mundell
Letters
Heysen to Heysen: Selected Letters of Hans Heysen and Nora Heysen
by Catherine Speck
by
Christopher Menz
Photography
Images of the Interior: Seven Central Australian Photographers
by Philip Jones
by
Helen Ennis
Art
The Art of Frank Hinder
by Renee Free and John Henshaw, with Frank Hinder
by
Ann Stephen
Art
The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860–1900
by Stephen Calloway and Lynn Federle Orr
by
Alison Inglis
Biography
John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star
by Jonathan Croall
by
Brian McFarlane
Media
Come the Revolution
by Alex Mitchell
by
Jeff Sparrow
Anthology
The Best Australian Science Writing 2011
by Stephen Pincock
by
Rosaleen Love
Language
The Language Wars: A History of Proper English
by Henry Hitchings
by
Bruce Moore
Literary Studies
Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley
by John Kinsella, edited by Niall Lucy
by
David McCooey
Poetry
Surface to Air
by Jaya Savige
by
Gig Ryan
Poetry
Benjamin Frater: 6 am in the Universe; and Pete Spence: Perrier Fever
by
Francesca Sasnaitis
Journals
Southerly, Vol. 70, No. 3: India India
edited by Santosh K. Sareen and G.J.V. Prasad
by
Mridula Nath Chakraborty
Picture Books
Stephanie Owen Reeder reviews recent children's picture books
by
Stephanie Owen Reeder
Young Adult Fiction
A Pocketful of Eyes
by Lili Wilkinson
by
Bec Kavanagh
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