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May 2017, no. 391

May 2017, no. 391

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Open Page

Open Page with Louis Nowra

Publisher of the Month

Publisher of the Month with Phillipa McGuinness

Film

Jake Wilson reviews 'Steven Spielberg: A life in films' by Molly Haskell

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Music

Gareth Hipwell reviews 'Strict Rules: The iconic story of the tour that shaped Midnight Oil' by Andrew McMillan

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Essay Collection

Andrew Fuhrmann reviews 'The Legacies of Bernard Smith: Essays on Australian Art, history and cultural politics' edited by Jaynie Anderson, Christopher R. Marshall, and Andrew Yip

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Philosophy

Tim Smartt reviews 'The Dream of Enlightenment: The rise of modern philosophy' by Anthony Gottlieb

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Biography

Simon Caterson reviews 'The Fabulous Flying Mrs Miller: An Australian’s true story of adventure, danger, romance and murder' by Carol Baxter

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Memoir

Suzy Freeman-Greene reviews 'Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and me' by Bill Hayes

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Memoir

Dennis Altman reviews 'And Then I Found Me' by Noel Tovey

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Biography

Paul Giles reviews 'The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the lost age of the exotics' by Jamie James

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Memoir

Katy Gerner reviews 'Beyond the Vapour Trail: The beauty, horror and humour of life: An aid worker’s story' by Brett Pierce

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Poetry

Benjamin Madden reviews 'The Poem Is You: 60 contemporary American poems and how to read them' by Stephen Burt

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Poetry

Geoff Page reviews 'A Personal History of Vision' by Luke Fischer, 'Flute of Milk' by Susan Fealy', and 'Dark Convicts: Ex-slaves on the First Fleet' by Judy Johnson

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Letters

Graeme Powell reviews 'Christina Stead: A web of friendship, selected letters (1928–1973)' edited by Ron Geering

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Fiction

Anna MacDonald reviews 'See What I Have Done' by Sarah Schmidt

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Fiction

Benjamin Chandler reviews 'All Fall Down' by Cassandra Austin

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Fiction

Crusader Hillis reviews 'Down the Hume' by Peter Polites

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Fiction

Tessa Lunney reviews 'A Hundred Small Lessons' by Ashley Hay

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Fiction

Anna Spargo-Ryan reviews 'Jean Harley Was Here' by Heather Taylor Johnson

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Fiction

Doug Wallen reviews 'Storyland' by Catherine McKinnon

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Literary Studies

Shannon Burns reviews 'Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire' by Marjorie Perloff

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Literary Studies

Paul Kildea reviews 'The Novel of the Century: The extraordinary adventure of Les Misérables' by David Bellos

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Essay Collection

David McCooey reviews 'The Pleasures of Leisure' by Robert Dessaix

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Law

Kevin Bell reviews 'The Land is our History: Indigeneity, law, and the settler state' by Miranda Johnson

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Australian History

Philip Jones reviews 'Into the heart of Tasmania: A search for human antiquity' by Rebe Taylor

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Politics

Michael Winkler reviews 'Losing Streak: How Tasmania was gamed by the gambling industry' by James Boyce

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Poetry

'I was the greatest art potter' by Christopher DeWeese

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Poem

'Zeitgeist' by Bronwyn Lea

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Anthology

Madeline Gleeson reviews 'They Cannot Take The Sky: Stories from detention' edited by Michael Green et al.

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Letters

Letters to the Editor - May 2017

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Fiction

Beejay Silcox reviews 'The Idiot' by Elif Batuman

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Literary Studies

Nicole Abadee reviews 'Woolloomooloo: A biography' by Louis Nowra

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Australian History

Frank Bongiorno reviews 'Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the world since 1942' by Allan Gyngell

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Literary Studies

Colin Nettelbeck reviews 'The Némirovsky Question: The life, death and legacy of a Jewish writer in 20th century France' by Susan Rubin Suleiman

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Poetry

Jill Jones reviews 'The Metronome' by Jennifer Maiden

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Politics

Lucas Grainger-Brown reviews 'The White Queen: One Nation and the politics of race' (Quarterly Essay 65) by David Marr

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Tribute

The irreplaceable: A tribute to John Clarke (1948–2017) by Morag Fraser

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Literary Studies

Jan McGuinness reviews 'A Writing Life: Helen Garner and her work' by Bernadette Brennan

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Politics

James McNamara reviews 'Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus' by Matt Taibbi and 'How The Hell Did This Happen? The Election of 2016' by P.J. O’Rourke

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Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - May 2017

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