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CURRENT ISSUE June 2007 No. 292 $8.95

CONTENTS

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

LETTERS
Clive James, Brian Matthews, Leigh Swinbourne, Jon Altman, Adi Wimmer, John Carmody, Robert Gibson, Thomas Ryan, Karen Brown

PROFILES IN WORLD LITERATURE
Irène Némirovsky: David Golder
Jonathan Weiss: Irène Némirovsky Colin Nettelbeck

POETRY
David Malouf: Typewriter Music Peter Porter
Peter Kirkpatrick: Westering Greg Kratzmann
Tom Shapcott: The City of Empty Rooms Ian Templeman

AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
Bart Ziino: A Distant Grief Ken Inglis
Alan Atkinson et al. (eds): High Lean Country Kate McFadyen

HISTORY
Michael A. McDonnell: The Politics of War Donna Merwick

POEMS
John Kinsella
Chris Andrews
Maria Takolander

CULTURAL STUDIES
Gillian Whitlock: Soft Weapons Kay Schaffer

PHILATELY
Helen Morgan: The Blue Mauritius Graeme Powell

ART
Ann Stephen et al. (eds): Modernism & Australia Anthony White

BIOGRAPHY
Hermione Lee: Edith Wharton Gay Bilson
Judith Godden: Lucy Osburn, A Lady Displaced Beverley Kingston

MEMOIR
Gore Vidal: Point to Point Navigation Peter Rose
Andrew Mueller: I Wouldn’t Start from Here Dan Toner

COMMENTARY
The Disappearing Act of Translation Nicholas Jose

LITERARY STUDIES
Craig Raine: T.S. Eliot Jonathan Pearlman

ESSAY
Virtual Lives Lawrence Goldman

FICTION
Emily Ballou: Aphelion Christina Hill
Gabrielle Lord: Shattered Peter Pierce
Matt Rubinstein: A Little Rain on Thursday Brian McFarlane
Sophie Gee: The Scandal of the Season Thuy On

JOURNALS
Gina Mercer (ed.): Island 107
Julianne Schultz (ed.): Griffith Review 15 Kerryn Goldsworthy
Ian Britain (ed.): Meanjin Vol. 166, No. 1
Nathan Hollier (ed.): Overland 186 Geordie Williamson

TRAVEL
Barbara Hodgson: Dreaming of East
Kate James: Women of the Gobi Alison Broinowski

NATURAL HISTORY
Danielle Clode: Continent of Curiosities Peter Menkhorst

IN BRIEF
Genna de Bont: The Pepper Gate Steve Gome
Nicholas Drayson: Love and the Platypus Rebecca Starford
Paul Morgan: Turner’s Paintbox Natalie Teasdale
Stephanie Green: Too Much, Too Soon George Dunford
Tony McMahon: The Single Gentleman’s Dining Club Dave Hoskin
Euan Mitchell: Making Noises Richard Watts

CONTRIBUTORS

  

Reviews from ABR May 2007

Judith Armstrong: Janette Turner Hospital's Orpheus Lost
'If the role of myth is to elaborate an unbearable truth so frequently and variously that its burden is made bearable, it is no wonder that the story of Orpheus and Eurydice exists in a multitude of retellings and a plethora of different versions on canvas, screen, stage and disc.' Read full review.

John Hirst on Louis Nowra's Bad Dreaming
'Nowra is not judgmental about traditional culture, and explains its practices as an effect of the constraints and imperatives of the hunter–gatherer life.' Read full review.

James Ley: Coetzee on Confession
'Inner Workings is of interest partly because it contains occasional writings. It is a collection of ‘more direct compositions’ which might ‘throw light on the often oblique novels’.' Read full review.

Chris Wallace Crabbe: Terry Eagleton's How to Read a Poem
'In Eagleton the persuasive critic, there is a Romantic-modernist poet struggling to get out: not drowning, but waving. From time to time, he releases the odd Wildean sentence such as ‘Serial killers may indulge in unspeakable flights of fancy’.' Read full review.

 

John Hirst on Louis Nowra's Bad Dreaming
'Nowra is not judgmental about traditional culture, and explains its practices as an effect of the constraints and imperatives of the hunter–gatherer life.' Read full review.

James Ley: Coetzee on Confession
'Inner Workings is of interest partly because it contains occasional writings. It is a collection of ‘more direct compositions’ which might ‘throw light on the often oblique novels’.' Read full review.

Chris Wallace Crabbe: Terry Eagleton's How to Read a Poem
'In Eagleton the persuasive critic, there is a Romantic-modernist poet struggling to get out: not drowning, but waving. From time to time, he releases the odd Wildean sentence such as ‘Serial killers may indulge in unspeakable flights of fancy’.' Read full review.
 

 

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