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September 2012, no. 344
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Full Contents
Advances
News from the Editor's Desk
by
Hidden Author
Features
The return of Happy Valley
by
Peter Craven
Features
Wild Card: An Autobiography 1923–1958
by Dorothy Hewett
by
Bernadette Brennan
Features
Remembering Robert Hughes (1938–2012)
by
Jane Goodall
Features
2012 Calibre Prize (Winner): Body and Soul
by
Matt Rubinstein
Features
The Land’s Meaning: New Selected Poems
by Randolph Stow
by
Dennis Haskell
War
The Battle for the Arab Spring: Revolution, Counter-Revolution and the Making of a New Era
by Lin Noueihed and Alex Warren
&
Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi
by Alison Pargeter
by
Peter Rodgers
Art
Australian Symbolism
by Denise Mimmocchi
&
Van Gogh to Kandinsky
by Richard Thomson, Frances Fowle, and Rodolphe Rapetti
by
Jane Clark
Letters
Letters to the Editor
by
Hidden Author
Literary Studies
Stalking Nabokov: Selected Essays
by Brian Boyd
by
Paul Morgan
Cartoon
Queue
by
Ben Juers
Cartoon
Godot
by
Ben Juers
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Jolley Prize 2012 (Winner): 'Patterns in Nature' by Sue Hurley
by
Sue Hurley
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Jolley Prize 2012 (Shortlist): 'Tended by Foxes' by Ngiare Elliot
by
Ngiare Elliot
ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Jolley Prize 2012 (Shortlist): 'Gorgeous Perambulator' by Jack Cox
by
Jack Cox
Fiction
Nine Days
by Toni Jordan
by
Donata Carrazza
Fiction
Dissonance: A Novel
by Stephen Orr
by
Anthony Lynch
Fiction
Beneath the Darkening Sky
by Majok Tulba
by
Alison Broinowski
Fiction
Fault Lines
by Pierz Newton-John
by
Milly Main
Fiction
Secrets of the Tides
by Hannah Richell
by
Angela E. Andrewes
Fiction
The Walls of Delhi
by Uday Prakash, translated by Jason Grunebaum
by
Mridula Nath Chakraborty
Fiction
Francesca Sasnaitis reviews 'Sufficient Grace' by Amy Espeseth
by
Francesca Sasnaitis
Fiction
HHhH
by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor
by
Anna Heyward
Australian History
A Wild History: Life and death on the Victoria River frontier
by Darrell Lewis
by
John Rickard
Food
Bold Palates: Australia’s Gastronomic Heritage
by Barbara Santich
by
Sally Burton
Music
Try Whistling This: Writings about Music
by Andrew Ford
by
Gillian Wills
Economics
Reframe: How to Solve the World’s Trickiest Problems
by Eric Knight
by
Alex O'Brien
Art
All Our Relations: 18th Biennale of Sydney 2012
by Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster
by
Felicity Fenner
Politics
Left Turn: Political Essays for the New Left
edited by Antony Lowenstein and Jeff Sparrow
by
Ben Eltham
Cultural Studies
The Sex Lives of Australians: A History
by Frank Bongiorno
by
Dennis Altman
Education
Whackademia: An Insider’s Account of the Troubled University
by Richard Hil
by
Suzie Gibson
Military History
Fighting to the Finish: The Australian Army and the Vietnam War 1968–1975
by Ashley Ekins, with Ian McNeill
by
Greg Lockhart
Poetry
Asymmetry
by Aidan Coleman
by
Mike Ladd
Poetry
Snowline
by Jo Langdon
by
Peter Kenneally
Young Adult Fiction
Friday Brown
by Vikki Wakefield
by
Sophie Splatt
Young Adult Fiction
The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf
by Ambelin Kwaymullina
by
Bec Kavanagh
Picture Books
Stephanie Owen Reeder reviews recent picture books
by
Stephanie Owen Reeder
Anthology
Hide Your Fires: 2012 UTS Writers’ Anthology
edited by Lauren Anderson et al.
by
Francesca Sasnaitis
Journals
fourW twenty-two
edited by David Gilbey
by
Jay Daniel Thompson
Fiction
Dancing to the Flute
by Manisha Jolie Amin
by
Diana Carroll
Poem
'The Grandfather', a new poem by Michael Farrell
by
Michael Farrell
Poem
'Co. Kerry', a new poem by Paul Kane
by
Paul Kane
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