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CURRENT ISSUE April 2007 No. 290 $8.95

CONTENTS

ADVANCES
The latest literary news from the Editor's desk.

LETTERS
Don Charlwood, Peter Slezak et al., Peter Cochrane, Alan Atkinson, Jack Bradstreet, Gina Mercer

NATIONAL NEWS
 'My mss are destroyed' Marie-Louise Ayres

POEMS
Clive James
Emma Carmody
Judith Bishop

MEMOIR
Brenda Niall: Life Class Peter Rose

CULTURAL STUDIES
Michael Symons: One Continuous Picnic Leo Schofield

TRIBUTE
Elizabeth Jolley Caroline Lurie

THE NETHERLANDS
Ian Buruma: Murder in Amsterdam
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Infidel Elisabeth Holdsworth

LAW
Timothy L. L. McCormack and Sheryl Saunders (eds): Sir Ninian Stephen: A Tribute Tony Blackshield

NATURAL HISTORY
Libby Robin: How a Continent Created a Nation Ian Gibbins

ANTHOLOGY
James Fenton (ed.): The New Faber Book of Love Poems Stephen Edgar

LIFE WRITING
Carmel Bird: Writing the Story of your Life Shirley Walker

ESSAY
Death Dance David Hansen

LITERATURE
Rolf Boldrewood: Robbery Under Arms Rick Hosking

FICTION
Adib Khan: Spiral Road Geordie Williamson
Zoe Dattner and Louise Swinn (eds): The Sleepers Almanac 2007 Annie Condon
Max Barry: Company Richard Watts

POLITICS
Clive Hamilton and Sarah Maddison: How the Australian Government is Controlling Public Opinion and Stifling Debate Norman Abjorensen
Troy Bramston (ed.): The Wran Era John Wanna
Marian Simmis and John Warhurst (eds): Mortgage Nation: The 2004 Australian Election Clement Macintyre

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Stanley Meisler: Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War Alison Broinowski

MUSIC
Patrick Carnegy: Wagner and the Art of the Theatre Michael Shmith

AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
Tom Sheridan: Australia's Own Cold War Braham Dabscheck

PHILOSOPHY
Michael Share: Philoponus Against Proclus's on the Eternity of the World 1-5
Michael Share: Philoponus Against Proclus's on the Eternity of the World 6-8
David T. Runia

TRAVEL
 Michele Gierck: 700 Days in El Salvador Kate McFadyen

LITERARY STUDIES
Peter Coleman: The Heart of James McAuley Vivian Smith
Salhia Ben-Messahel: Mind the Country Georgie Arnott

ARCHITECTURE
Terry Smith: The Architecture of Aftermath Paul Walker

POETRY
Aileen Kelly: The Passion Paintings David Gilbey
Brian Edwards: The Escape Sonnets
Dominique Hecq: Couchgrass Anthony Lynch
Susan Hawthorne: The Butterfly Effect Dawn Cohen

YOUNG ADULT NON-FICTION
Challenging Our ideas of the World Mike Shuttleworth

IN BRIEF
Sarah Hopkins: The Crimes of Billy Fish Kylie Stevenson
Marshall Browne: Inspector Anders and the Blood Vendetta Emily Fraser
Alasdair Duncan: Metro Ryan Paine
Jim Landells: Ivory to Australia Nick Dluzniak
Pip Newling: Knockabout Girl Dan Toner
Gay Hawkinss: The Ethics of Waste Rory Dufficy

CONTRIBUTORS

  

Reviews from ABR March 2007

Peter Rogers: Jimmy Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
'Carter takes particular aim at Israeli settlement policy. So he should. It beggars belief that Israel and its die-hard supporters cling to the notion that the problems with peacemaking are all the fault of the other side. For almost forty years, Palestinians have witnessed the relentless alienation of the very land that might have become their state – indeed, must become their state if it is to have any chance of viability.' Read full review

Brenda Niall: B.A. Santamaria: Your Most Obedient Servant
'The Santamaria letters do much to illuminate the ideas and personality of someone who has been demonised and idealised to a degree which obscures his individuality. They record sixty years of ceaseless thinking and striving.' Read full review


Hugh White on Francis Fukuyama's After the Neocons and Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman's Ethical Realism
'Beyond American failure in Iraq lies a second, deeper failure. America’s Iraq project was always intended by its proponents not just to fix Iraq and transform the Middle East, but also to demonstrate a new grand policy concept for the twenty-first century.' Read full review

Heroic poses: Peter Pierce on Tom Keneally's The Widow and Her Hero
The depiction of Grace in her role as narrator is one of Keneally’s subtlest portrayals, an exercise in craft that compels admiration. For if the life of the hero in action is unproblematic, even if it might be fatal – ‘each detonation enlarged their legend’ – the life of the woman left behind with a cherished store of memories is not. Read full review

Michael Fullilove on UN Bashing - David M. Malone's The International Struggle over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council 1980–2005
'Malone’s narrative will challenge both camps. UN groupies will not enjoy his accounts of the cold mathematics of Security Council politics. A case in point was the weak response from Council members to Iraq’s 1980 invasion of Iran – a direct attack on a member state – which left Tehran mistrustful and Baghdad contemptuous of the world body. ' Read full review

 
 

 

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