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CURRENT ISSUE October 2007 No. 295 $8.95

CONTENTS

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

LETTERS
James Ley, Bruce Haigh, Thea Biesheuvel

BIOGRAPHY
Germaine Greer: Shakespeare’s Wife James Ley

MEDIA
Margaret Simons: The Content Makers Bridget Griffen-Foley
Michael Gawenda: American Notebook Peter Haig

MEMOIRS
Jacob Rosenberg: Sunrise West Peter Rose
Tom Keneally: Searching for Schindler Chad Habel
Craig Sherborne: Muck Gay Bilson

LAW
Chester Porter: The Conviction of the Innocent Philip Selth

MUSIC
Martin Buzacott: The Rite of Spring Robert Gibson
Theo Cateforis (ed.): The Rock History Reader Clem Bastow

GOVERNMENT
Anne Tiernan: Power without Responsibility John Uhr

FICTION
Malcolm Knox: Jamaica Brian McFarlane
Graeme Kinross-Smith: Long Afternoon of the World Shirley Walker
Sonya Hartnett: The Ghost’s Child Rebecca Starford
Mandy Sayer: The Night Has a Thousand Eyes Christina Hill
Charlotte Wood: The Children Stephanie Bishop

PROFILES IN WORLD LITERATURE AND IDEAS
Henry Handel Richardson Clive Probyn

POLITICS
Alan Parkinson: Maralinga Wayne Reynolds
Judith Ajani: The Forest Wars Peter Mares

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Vijay Prashad: The Darker Nations Brian Stoddart

HISTORY
Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper: Forgotten Wars Peter Edwards
Richard B. Sher: The Enlightenment and the Book Graham Tulloch

LITERARY STUDIES
Stéphane Mallarmé (trans. Barbara Johnson): Divagations Jill Anderson

POETRY
Barry Hill: Necessity: Poems 1996–2006 Nicholas Birns
Petra White: The Incoming Tide Andrew Sant
Jordie Albiston: Vertigo: A Cantata
Paul Mitchell: Awake Despite the Hour David McCooey
Brendan Ryan: A Paddock in His Head Geoff Page

JOURNALS
Ian Britain (ed.): Meanjin Vol. 66, No. 2
Julianne Schultz (ed.): Griffith Review 17 Lyn McCredden

NATURAL HISTORY
Tony Koslow: The Silent Deep Paul Humphries

SPORT
Sean Fagan and Dally Messenger III: The Master
Peter FitzSimons: The Ballad of Les Darcy Braham Dabscheck

EDUCATION
Virginia Lowe: Stories, Pictures and Reality Ruth Starke

JUNIOR FICTION SURVEY
Anna Ryan-Punch

IN BRIEF
Craig A.J. Stockings: The Torch and the Sword Gillian Dooley
Gina Mercer: Handfeeling the Crocodile Andrew Burns
Donna Ward (ed.): Indigo Georgie Arnott

CONTRIBUTORS

 

  

Reviews from ABR September 2007

Geordie Williamson: J.M. Coetzee's Diary
of a Bad Year
'J.M Coetzee has used his formidable skills
to produce a novel whose overriding concern
with "the real thing" also plunges it into a
sphere outside art.' Read full review.

Tamas Pataki on Christopher Hitchens
God Is Not Great
'Of the caustic half-dozen literary assaults
on religion landing recently on Australian
shelves, God Is Not Great is the most inviting
and accessible.’ Read full review.

Jon Altman : Helen Hughes's Lands of
Shame
'Hughes's analysis is deeply problematic
from start to finish ... Given that [she] wants
to revisit this state project, ignoring its past
failures is an unconscionable omission.’
Read full review.

Frank Jackson: The Assault on Reason
by Al Gore
'When the United States invaded Iraq,
it invaded a country that posed no immediate
threat to it.' Read full review.
 

 

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