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Singo: Mates, wives, triumphs, disasters by Gerald Stone
Last month it was autobiography’s turn, when David McCooey examined recent Australian memoirs (La Trobe University Essay, ABR, May 2006). Now it is biography’s turn: the genre will be the subject of the 2006 Australian Book Review/La Trobe University Annual Lecture, titled ‘Matters of Life and Death: The Return of Biography’. Our distinguished lecturer is Professor Ian Donaldson, Director of the ANU’s Humanities Research Centre, head of the latter’s new Biography Institute, and Consultant Editor for The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is a general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson (due for publication in twenty-five volumes in 2007), and is completing a life of Jonson for OUP.
... (read more)We Will Live and Then We Will See by Warwick Sprawson & Big Weird Lonely Hearts by Allen C. Jones
Beyond Chutzpah by Norman G. Finkelstein & Israel’s Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood by Idith Zertal
It is two fathers punching each other in the footy sheds
shadows extending over the river flats,
over the bachelor nursing a long neck on his porch
over the epileptic twisting on the mechanic’s floor.
Back from the Dead: Peter Hughes’ story of survival and hope after Bali by Patrick Lindsay
Juan Davila with Guy Brett and Roger Benjamin by Juan Davila
See,
how this slow tide
tugs
and sighs against
the flank of patient night –
the driving pulse that
aches towards the
fleck
of dawn then
shifts,
and curls around skin’s soft
warmth, that quiet space –