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September 2011, no. 334
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Advances
News from the Editor's Desk
by
Hidden Author
Letters
Letters to the Editor - September 2011
by
Hidden Author
Biography
Captain Cook: Master of the Seas
by Frank McLynn
by
Norman Etherington
Asian Studies
On China
by Henry Kissinger
by
Bruce Grant
Features
Peter Rose reviews 'Sempre Susan' by Sigrid Nunez and 'Swimming in a Sea of Death' by David Rieff
by
Peter Rose
Fiction
Her Father’s Daughter
by Alice Pung
by
Thuy On
Film
The Faber Book of French Cinema
by Charles Drazin
by
Sally Burton
Open Page
Open Page with Steven Carroll
by
Australian Book Review
Politics
Heroes & Villains
by Nick Dyrenfurth
&
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party
by Nick Dyrenfurth and Frank Bongiorno
by
Stuart Macintyre
History
History at the Crossroads: Australians and the Past
by Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton
by
Clare Corbould
Memoir
Fair Cop
by Christine Nixon and Jo Chandler
by
Elisabeth Holdsworth
Fiction
Patrick Allington reviews 'Spirit of Progress' by Steven Carroll
by
Patrick Allington
Fiction
Carmel Bird reviews 'Thought Crimes' by Tim Richards
by
Carmel Bird
Fiction
Miriam Zolin reviews 'A Break in the Chain' by Tangea Tansley
by
Miriam Zolin
Fiction
The Boundary
by Nicole Watson
by
Dean Biron
Fiction
Adam Gall reviews 'Berlin Syndrome' by Melanie Joosten
by
Adam Gall
Fiction
Jam Dreaming
by Jan Gross
by
Joy Lawn
Fiction
The Chase
by Christopher Kremmer
by
Don Anderson
Fiction
Jeffrey Poacher reviews 'The Fix' by Nick Earls
by
Jeffrey Poacher
Cultural Studies
Violin Lessons
by Arnold Zable
by
José Borghino
Cultural Studies
Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach
by Martha C. Nussbaum
by
Belinda Probert
Cultural Studies
Moving Stories: An Intimate History of Four Women Across Two Countries
by Alistair Thomson
by
Penny Russell
Biography
James Joyce: A Biography
by Gordon Bowker
by
James Ley
Biography
Andrew Marvell: The chameleon
by Nigel Smith
by
Lisa Gorton
Biography
No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf
by Carolyn Burke
by
Colin Nettelbeck
Anthology
Antarctica: That Sweep of Savage Splendour
edited by Alasdair McGregor
by
James Bradley
Literary Studies
R.S. White reviews 'The King and I'' by Philippa Kelly
by
R.S. White
Literary Studies
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden, Prose, Vol. IV 1956–1962
edited by W.H. Auden
by
Simon West
Literary Studies
William Christie reviews 'The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet' edited by A.D. Cousins and Peter Howarth
by
William Christie
Journal
Griffith Review 33: Such Is Life
edited by Julianne Schultz
by
Jay Daniel Thompson
Journal
Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria, 50th Edition
edited by Isobel Crombie and Judith Ryan
by
Jane Clark
Photography
Wolfgang Sievers
by Helen Ennis
by
Julian Burnside
Music
Out of Time: The Vexed Life of Georg Tintner
by Tanya Buchdahl Tintner
by
John Carmody
True Crime
Tim Brewer reviews 'The Real George Freeman' by Tony Reeves
by
Tim Brewer
Cricket
The Cambridge Companion to Cricket
by Anthony Bateman and Jeffrey Hill
by
Bernard Whimpress
Poem
'A Context for Intensity', a new poem by Clive James
by
Clive James
Poetry
Brendan Ryan reviews 'Fire Diary' by Mark Tredinnick
by
Brendan Ryan
Poetry
amphora
by Joanne Burns
by
Rose Lucas
Young Adult Fiction
Stephen Mansfield reviews 'The Dead I Know' by Scot Gardner and 'The Comet Box' by Adrian Stirling
by
Stephen Mansfield
Young Adult Fiction
Liberator
by Richard Harland
by
Benjamin Chandler
Children's Fiction
Pam Macintyre reviews 'Taj and the Great Camel Trek' by Rosanne Hawke
by
Pam Macintyre
Features
Peter Stothard reviews 'Rome' by Robert Hughes
by
Peter Stothard
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