February 2014, no. 358
Welcome to our first issue for 2014 – with 48 different writers bringing you fine reviews, poems, and arts commentary. Historian Marilyn Lake – warning us about a veritable tsunami of books about the Great War in the centenary year – reviews Joan Beaumont’s book Broken Nation. John Thompson finds much to like in Germaine Greer’s White Beech: The Rainforest Years. Jen Webb reviews Donna Tartt’s new novel, The Goldfinch. Rebekah Clarkson, Danielle Clode and Peter Kenneally review major anthologies of last year’s ‘best’ writings. We also have a major new feature – ‘Critic of the Month’.
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Full Contents
History
Fractured Times: Culture and society in the twentieth century by Eric Hobsbawm
Anthologies
The Best Australian Science Writing 2013 edited by Jane McCredie and Natasha Mitchell
Australian History
The Marriage Knot: Marriage and Divorce in Colonial Western Australia by Penelope Hetherington
by Anne Partlon
Music
Richard Wagner: A Life in Music by Martin Geck (translated by Stewart Spencer)
Reference
Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 18: 1981–1990 (L–Z) edited by Melanie Nolan
Australian History