Australian Book Review

February 2012, no. 338

February 2012, no. 338

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Full Contents

Editor's Diaries

Editor's Diary 2011

Theatre

The fifty-seventh summer of Ray Lawler’s great play

by John Rickard

Advances

News from the Editor's Desk

by Hidden Author

Letters

Letters to the Editor - February 2012

by Hidden Author

Features

After Words: The Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches by P.J. Keating

by Neal Blewett

Society

Panic: David Marr by Black Inc., $29.95 pb, 262 pp

by Dennis Altman

Politics

Fear and loathing in American politics

by Morag Fraser

Biography

Ben Jonson: A Life by Ian Donaldson

War

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939–1945 by Max Hastings

Art

The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art edited by Jaynie Anderson

by Andrew Sayers

Commentary

'Oz Lit in the Moot Court Room' by Stephanie Guest

by Stephanie Guest

Language

‘A new garment throughout’

by Sarah Ogilvie

Essay Collection

The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays by Simon Leys

by Nick Hordern

Film

Wolf Creek (Australian Screen Classics) by Sonya Hartnett

Film

I Found It at the Movies: Reflections of a Cinephile by Philip French

by Brian McFarlane

Film

Conversations with Clint: Paul Nelson’s Lost Interviews with Clint Eastwood 1979–1983 edited by Kevin Avery

Australian History

A History of Tasmania by Henry Reynolds

Australian History

Bernard Whimpress reviews 'The Premier and the Pastoralist: William Morgan and Peter Waite' by James Waite

by Bernard Whimpress

Journal

Meanjin, Vol. 70, No. 4 edited by Sally Heath

by William Heyward

Fiction

Patrick Allington reviews 'The Chemistry of Tears' by Peter Carey

by Patrick Allington

Fiction

A Common Loss by Kirsten Tranter

Fiction

Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany

Fiction

Currawalli Street by Christopher Morgan

by Carol Middleton

Fiction

Donata Carrazza reviews 'Bite Your Tongue' by Francesca Rendle-Short

by Donata Carrazza

Fiction

The Last Thread by Michael Sala

Fiction

Poor Man’s Wealth by Rod Usher

Fiction

Softly, As I Leave You by Chandani Lokugé

by Gillian Dooley

Fiction

Comeback by Peter Corris

Poem

'Deep River' a new poem by Jennifer Maiden

by Jennifer Maiden

Gay Studies

Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas by Christopher Reed

by Robert Aldrich

Letters

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: 1907–1922 by Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon

by James McNamara

Anthology

The Best Australian Poems 2011 edited by John Tranter

by Kate Middleton

Anthology

The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing edited by Mark Dapin

Literary Studies

Selected Prose of Dorothy Hewett by Fiona Morrison

by Bruce Bennett

Literary Studies

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood

by Melinda Harvey

Society

The experience of cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, Paul Cox, Geoff Goodfellow, and Dudley Bradshaw

by Felicity Plunkett

Memoir

HipsterMattic by Matt Granfield

by Alex O'Brien

Biography

Proud Australian Boy: A Biography of Russell Braddon by Nigel Starck

by John Ellison Davies

Biography

Views From The Balcony: A Biography of Catherine Duncan by Michael Keane

by Desley Deacon

New Zealand

A Concise History of New Zealand by Philippa Mein

by Rachel Buchanan

Poetry

Knuckled by Fiona Wright

Picture Books

Mamang by Kim Scott, Iris Woods, and the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project & Noongar Mambara Bakitj by Kim Scott, Lomas Roberts and the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project

by Christine Nicholls

Graphic Novel

Oslo Davis reviews 'Habibi' by Craig Thompson

Poem

'Grade', a new poem by Peter Rose

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