February 2013, no. 348
Welcome to our first issue for 2013! Highlights include Morag Fraser’s annual letter from the US – about the state of play in Washington D.C. Bernadette Brennan reviews Geordie Williamson’s controversial book The Burning Library. The first biography of J.M. Coetzee is reviewed by Gillian Dooley. We have reviews of new fiction by Brian Castro and Graeme Simsion. Brenda Niall writes at length about tensions between Henry Handel Richardson and Nettie Palmer.
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Full Contents
Literary Studies
The Burning Library: Great Novelists Lost and Found by Geordie Williamson
Biography
J.M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing by J.C. Kannemeyer, translated by Michiel Heyns
Media
Murdoch’s Pirates: Before the Phone Hacking, There Was Rupert’s Pay-TV Skullduggery by Neil Chenoweth
by Joel Deane
Biography
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D.T. Max
Biography
Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life by Artur Domosławski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Fiction
The Toe Tag Quintet: Five Novellas of Murder and Mayhem by Matthew Condon
Fiction
Great Western Highway: A Love Story (Capital, Volume One, Part Two) by Anthony Macris
Letters
The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume 3: 1926–1927 edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden
Australian History
26 Views of the Starburst World: William Dawes at Sydney Cove 1788–91 by Ross Gibson
Letters
Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother edited by William Shawcross
Indigenous Studies
People on Country: Vital Landscapes, Indigenous Futures edited by Jon Altman and Seán Kerins
Poetry