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April 2017, no. 390

April 2017, no. 390

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Law

John Eldridge reviews 'On Fantasy Island: Britain, Europe and Human Rights' by Conor Gearty

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Poetry

Susan Sheridan reviews 'New and Selected Poems of Anna Wickham' edited by Nathanael O’Reilly

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Poetry

Geoff Page reviews 'The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry' by John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan (eds)

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History

Colin Nettelbeck reviews 'Les Parisiennes: How the women of Paris lived, loved, and died in the 1940s' by Anne Sebba

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History

Christopher Allen reviews 'Imperial Triumph: The Roman world from Hadrian to Constantine' by Michael Kulikowski

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Fiction

Benjamin Chandler reviews 'The Change Trilogy: The Silent Invasion' by James Bradley

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Fiction

Anna MacDonald reviews 'The Trapeze Act' by Libby Angel

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Fiction

Sara Savage reviews 'The Permanent Resident' by Roanna Gonsalves

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Fiction

Blanche Clark reviews 'The Restorer' by Michael Sala

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Fiction

Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews 'The Refugees' by Viet Thanh Nguyen

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Fiction

Fiona Wright review 'From the Wreck' by Jane Rawson

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Open Page

Open Page with Ashley Hay

Poet of the Month

Paul Hetherington is Poet of the Month

Critic of the Month

Felicity Plunkett is Critic of the Month

Biography

Patrick McCaughey reviews 'Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilization' by James Stourton

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Biography

Andrew Fuhrmann reviews 'No Way but This: In Search of Paul Robeson' by Jeff Sparrow

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Biography

Kevin Foster review 'Valiant For Truth: The life of Chester Wilmot, war correspondent' by Neil McDonald with Peter Brune

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History

Mark Edele reviews 'Stalin and the Scientists: A History of triumph and tragedy 1905–1953' by Simon Ings

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Science and Technology

Nick Haslam reviews 'A Day in the Life of the Brain: The neuroscience of consciousness from dawn till dusk' by Susan Greenfield

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Memoir

Suzy Freeman-Greene reviews 'The Political is Personal: A 20th century memoir' by Judith Buckrich

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Memoir

Alison Broinowski reviews 'Subtle Moments: Scenes on a life’s journey' by Bruce Grant

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Religion

Michael McGirr reviews 'The Tempest-Tossed Church: Being a Catholic today' by Gerard Windsor

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Poem

'Ship', a new poem by Paul Hetherington

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Society

Paul Morgan reviews 'Peak: Reinventing middle age' by Patricia Edgar and Don Edgar

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Biography

Katy Gerner reviews 'Hamilton Hume: Our greatest explorer' by Robert Macklin

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Memoir

Gillian Dooley reviews 'After' by Nikki Gemmell

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Literary Studies

Tali Lavi review 'Behind the Text: Candid conversations with Australian creative nonfiction writers' by Sue Joseph

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Literary Studies

Gillian Dooley reviews 'Australian Literary Studies' edited by Julieanne Lamond

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Fiction

Brenda Walker reviews 'Old Growth' by John Kinsella

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Fiction

Beejay Silcox reviews '4321' by Paul Auster

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Politics

Dennis Altman reviews 'Disposable Leaders: Media and leadership coups from Menzies to Abbott' by Rodney Tiffen

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Memoir

Diana Bagnall reviews 'The Case Against Fragrance' by Kate Grenville

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Society

Deborah Zion reviews 'Time to Die' by Rodney Syme

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Society

Mark McKenna reviews 'Illicit Love: Interracial sex and marriage in the United States and Australia' by Ann McGrath

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History

Alan Atkinson reviews 'Scurvy: The disease of discovery' by Jonathan Lamb

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Literary Studies

Paul Giles reviews 'The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 9: The world novel in English to 1950' edited by Ralph Crane, Jane Stafford, and Mark Williams

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Literary Studies

Elizabeth McMahon reviews 'A History of New Zealand Literature' edited by Mark Williams

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Letters

Letters to the Editor - April 2017

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Advances

News from the Editor's desk - April 2017

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Commentary

'The Copyright of Albert Namatjira' by Colin Golvan

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