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CURRENT ISSUE September 2007 No. 294 $8.95

CONTENTS

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

LETTERS
Alison Broinowski, Tony Kevin, Michael Wesley,
Toni Tan, John Carmody, Angus Trumble

FICTION
 J.M. Coetzee: Diary of a Bad Year Geordie Williamson
Gregory Day: Ron McCoy’s Sea of Diamonds Nick Drayson
James Woodford: Whitecap Fiona Gruber
Nicholas Shakespeare: Secrets of the Sea Peter Pierce
Belinda Castles: The River Baptists Kate McFadyen
Colin Batrouney: Enzo and Omar in the Big Talking World W.H. Chong

POLITICS
Helen Hughes: Lands of Shame Jon Altman
Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen (eds): John Winston Howard Norman Abjorensen
Caroline Overington: Kickback John Button
Al Gore: The Assault on Reason Frank Jackson
Leigh Sales: Detainee 002 Robert Reynolds
Paul Cleary: Shakedown Jill Jolliffe

MEMOIRS
Bruce Beresford: Josh Harntett Definitely Wants to Do This ... True Stories from a Life in the Screen Trade Peter Craven

POEMS
Judith Beveridge
Lisa Gorton

INDIA
Martha C. Nussbaum: The Clash Within Joan Grant

RELIGION
Christopher Hitchens: God Is Not Great Tamas Pataki
Henry Ansgar Kelly: Satan: A Biography Andrew McGowan

ESSAYS
John Hughes: Someone Else Patrick Allington

PROFILES IN WORLD LITERATURE AND IDEAS
Ian Donaldson

HISTORY
Georg Forster: Cook, the Discoverer Paul Brunton

BIOGRAPHY
Barbara Angell: The Coral Browne Story Ian Britain

POETRY
J.S. Harry: Not Finding Wittgenstein Peter Porter
David Brooks: Urban Elegies John Kinsella
Nicolette Stasko: Glass Cathedrals Adrian Caesar

JOURNALS
Patrick Allington, Sabina Hopfer
and Christopher Lappas (eds): Etchings 2
Gina Mercer (ed.): Island 108 Stephanie Bishop

LITERARY STUDIES
Patrick Buckridge and Belinda McKay (eds): By the Book Gregory Kratzmann
Nigel Hamilton: Biography Barbara Caine

SOCIETY
Estelle Blackburn: The End of Innocence Grant Bailey
Brian Howe: Weighing up Australian Values Lyndon Megarrity

EDUCATION
Joanna Mendelssohn: Which School? Ilana Snyder

MUSIC
Lawrence Kramer: Why Classical Music Still Matters Robert Gibson

FILM
Geoff Mayer and Keith Beattie (eds): The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand Brian McFarlane
Gail Jones: The Piano Jake Wilson

LANGUAGE
Ruth Wajnryb: Cheerio Tom, Dick and Harry Fred Ludowyk

IN BRIEF
Caroline Caddy: Esperance Janet Upcher
Theodore Dalrymple: Romancing Opiates Andrew Burns
Sam Everingham: Wild Ride Steve Gome

CONTRIBUTORS

  

Reviews from ABR July/August 2007

Morag Fraser: Clive James's Cultural Amnesia
'When James writes, as he does so incisively, about the rhythms or hinges of poetry, or the negatively-capable subtlety of great European criticism, or about the dynamics of American television performance and the component parts of comedy, he is in his element, and can take us with him.' Read full review.

Christina Hill on Rhyll McMaster's Feather Man
'McMaster is interested in the fragility of identity and the dynamics of personal power. Lyce’s story is harrowing. Sexually abused, and in a dissociated state, she lives in a cardboard world, feeling little.’ Read full review.

Patrick Allington: Marr's diary of outrages
 'The combination of the diary of outrage and Marr’s assessment of Howard lends further weight to a growing perception amongst some sections of the community that the last decade in Australia has seen a serious deterioration of political debate, and that the Coalition government has frequently attempted to stymie even the mildest and most constructive forms of dissent to its domestic and international agendas.’ Read full review.

Mark Cully : Don't Panic! by Cassandra Wilkinson
'Opinion leaders are competing in a crowded ideas market. If they overreach themselves with a touch of hyperbole on occasion, that does not, of itself, negate their argument. Wilkinson lays fault on the media for dwelling on dramatic exception.' Read full review.
 

 

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