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CURRENT ISSUE May 2007 No. 291 $8.95

CONTENTS

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

LETTERS
Ken Gelder, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Frank Moorhouse,
Laurie Hergenhan

FICTION
Janette Turner Hospital: Orpheus Lost Judith
Armstrong
Gail Jones: Sorry Michelle Griffin
Elizabeth Stead: The Gospel of Gods and Crocodiles Christina Hill
Dorothy Porter: El Dorado David Gilbey
Paddy O’Reilly: The End of the World Denise O’Dea
Amanda Johnson: Eugene’s Falls
Carole Lefevre: Nights in the Asylum Owen Richardson

INDIGENOUS STUDIES
Louis Nowra: Bad Dreaming John Hirst

EDUCATION
Kevin Donnelly: Dumbing Down Ilana Snyder

ESSAY
‘What Dymphna Knew’ Brian Matthews

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Michael Wesley: The Howard Paradox Allan Gyngell

TRAVEL
Tom Griffiths: Slicing the Silence Adrian Caesar

ESSAYS
J. M. Coetzee: Inner Workings James Ley

REFERENCE
Selina Samuels (ed.): Dictionary of Literary
Biography, Volume 325 Paul Brunton

POEMS
Brendan Ryan
Chris Edwards

LITERARY STUDIES
Terry Eagleton: How to Read a Poem Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Paul Salzman: Reading Early Modern Women’s Writing Kate Lilley

MEMOIR
Adam Sutton and Neil McMahon: Say It Out Loud Robert Reynolds
Anne Jacobs: Alien Roots Carol Middleton

MUSIC
Jeff Brownrigg: A New Melba? Ian Holtham

ANTHOLOGY
Richard Lansdown (ed.): Strangers in the South Seas Kate Darian-Smith

POETRY
Julian Croft: Ocean Island Martin Duwell
Katherine Gallagher: Circus-Apprentice Lyn McCredden

JOURNALS
Nicolas Birns (ed.): Antipodes
Leigh Dale (ed.): Australian Literary Studies Maria Takolander

PHILOSOPHY
Martha C. Nussbaum: Frontiers of Justice Tamas Pataki

SOCIETY
Philip Mendes: Inside the Welfare Lobby Shelley McInnis

YOUNG ADULT FICTION Ruth Starke

IN BRIEF
Martin Flanagan and Tom Uren: The Fight Nick Dluzniak
Nicole Brenez (trans. Adrian Martin): Abel Ferrara Matthew Clayfield
Roy Masters: Bad Boys Braham Dabscheck
Shane Maloney: Sucked In Matthia Dempsey
Penni Russon: Drift Maya Linden
Jessica White: A Curious Intimacy Louise Swinn

CONTRIBUTORS

  

Reviews from ABR April 2007

Peter Rose: Brenda Niall's Life Class
'It is rare in Australia for a literary biographer, even one of distinction, to write at book length about her intellectual formation and biographical pursuits.' Read full review.

Caroline Lurie's Tribute to Elizabeth Jolley
'Your inscrutability is one of the things I miss most about you, Elizabeth; you could encompass multiple meanings into the simplest statements.' Read full review.

Marie-Louise Ayres on Patrick White's Manuscripts
'Who can disagree with Patrick White when he says that the ‘final versions’ of his books, plays, short stories and poems are what matter most?' Read full review.

Elisabeth Holdsworth: Ian Buruma's Murder in Amsterdam and Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel
According to Ian Buruma, the author of Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (2004), when van Gogh made the controversial film Submission with the Muslim activist turned politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Buruma thought that this would be seen as another of his national ‘village idiot’ gestures. Read full review.

Geordie Williamson: Adib Khan's Spiral Road
Spiral Road, Adib Khan's fifth work of fiction, is a worthy attempt at humanising this Manichean abstraction: a novel tracing the experience of a man standing in the middle of one such bridge as it begins to crumble. Read full review.


The inaugural ABR/Flinders University Lecture, 'Making the World Safe for Diversity: Forty Years of Higher Education' from Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. Read full text.

 
 

 

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