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CURRENT ISSUE December 2007–January 2008 No. 297 $8.95

CONTENTS

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

LETTERS
Jeanette Hoorn, John Mulvaney

PUBLISHING
David Carter and Anne Galligan (eds): Making Books Richard Walsh

ECOLOGY
Gary Braasch: Earth Under Fire Ian Gibbins

POLITICS
Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (eds): The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics Neal Blewett

MIDDLE EAST
Waleed Aly: People Like Us Jonathan Pearlman

BIOGRAPHY
Janet Malcolm: Two Lives Peter Rose

SPECIAL FEATURE
Best Books of the Year

FICTION
Matthew Condon: The Trout Opera Peter Pierce
Christopher Koch: The Memory Room Adrian Mitchell
David Malouf: The Complete Stories Patrick Allington
Victoria Hammond: The Devil and Maria d’Avalos Christina Hill
Sara Knox: The Orphan Gunner Jo Case
Kylie Chan: Blue Dragon
Lian Hearn: Heaven’s Net is Wide Chad Habel
Venero Armanno: The Dirty Beat Owen Richardson

IN BRIEF – FICTION
Chris Womersley: The Low Road Rebecca Starford
Glyn Parry: Ocean Road Steve Gome
Andrew Hutchinson: Rohypnol Tali Polichtuk

POEMS
Shane McCauley
Dorothy Porter

MEMOIRS
Donald Horne and Myfanwy Horne: Dying Pamela Bone
Maria Tumarkin: Courage Judith Armstrong
Richard Woolcott (illus. David Rowe): Undiplomatic Activities Joan Grant

LAW
Antonio Buti: Sir Ronald Wilson Tony Blackshield

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Tim Weiner: Legacy of Ashes Peter Haig

HISTORY
Peter Doherty: A Light History of Hot Air Keryn Williams

SOCIETY
Hugh Mackay: Advance Australia ... Where? Lyndon Megarrity

ANTHOLOGIES
Robert Drewe (ed.): The Best Australian Stories 2007 Rosemary Sorensen
Peter Rose (ed.): The Best Australian Poems 2007
John Tranter (ed.): The Best Australian Poetry 2007 Gregory Kratzmann

PROFILES IN WORLD LITERATURE AND IDEAS
Jack Kerouac: On the Road: The Original Scroll Richard Watts

FILM
Kathleen McHugh: Jane Campion Jake Wilson

SOCIOLOGY
Anthony Elliott (ed.): The Contemporary Bauman Anthony Moran

REFERENCE
Des Cowley and Clare Williamson: The World of the Book Ian Morrison

LITERARY STUDIES
Richard Freadman: This Crazy Thing a Life Susan Tridgell

JOURNALS
Ian Britain (ed.) (with Jennifer Digby): Meanjin, Vol. 66, No. 3
Gina Mercer (ed.): Island 109 Kate McFadyen
Brian Nelson (ed.): Australian Journal of French Studies, Vol. XLVI, No.1
Brian Nelson and Françoise Grauby (eds): Australian Journal of French Studies, Vol. XLVI, No.2 Colin Nettelbeck

POETRY
Jennifer Strauss (ed.): The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore Ann Vickery
Mike Ladd: Transit Adrian Caesar

IN BRIEF – NON-FICTION
Kevin Gillam: Permitted to Fall Andrew Burns
Ralph P. Neale: Racers of the Deep Gillian Dooley
Amanda Nettlebeck and Robert Foster: In the Name of the Law Gillian Dooley

CONTRIBUTORS

 

  

Reviews from ABR November 2007

Margaret Simons on Kerry Packer: The Rise and
Rise of Kerry Packer Uncut and Who Killed Channel 9?
'In business, Packer was occasionally
brilliant, but he had no vision, no over-arching
strategy and little purpose in life other than
further enrichment - and winning.'
Read full review.

Geoffrey Blainey: Andrew Roberts's A History
of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900
'A mainstream Australian historian would be
unlikely to attempt to write such a book. At this
phase of our nationalism, there is uneasiness
towards Britain...' Read full review.

John Button: Gordon Brown's Courage
'It is difficult to understand why Gordon Brown
should write a book of this kind. Is it really
a book about his eight subjects or a book
about him?’ Read full review.

Shirley Walker on
Alex Miller:
Landscape of Farewell
'Landscape of Farewell has a rare level of
wisdom and profundity. Few writers since
Joseph Conrad have had so fine an
appreciation of the equivocations of the
individual conscience and their relationship to
the long processes of history.' Read full review.
 

 

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