JULY-AUGUST
2009, No. 313
'Subterranean passion': John Brack and the search for order
To coincide with the current exhibition at the NGV, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
discusses the art of John Brack. He recounts his first encounter with the
artist's work, whose odd austerity he found arresting, and recalls their
robust lunches in Carlton.
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'Daydream believer': M.J. Hyland's new novel
In M.J. Hyland's third novel, This Is How, Rebecca Starford discerns
a warped introversion typical of Hyland's protagonists. Despite the
familiarity, Hyland has created a novel of discomfiting human truths.
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'Lost between hemispheres': Shirley Walker's family memoir
Brenda Niall praises Shirley Walker's The Ghost at the Wedding, which
returns to the material of her 2001 autobiography, Roundabout at Bangalow,
focusing on the poignant memories of the young men in her family who
served in both world wars.
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'Indon blitz': Tony Maniaty's Shooting Balibo
Jill Jolliffe reviews Shooting Balibo, which concerns the making of the
new film and Tony Maniaty's stint in East Timor in 1975. Jolliffe remembers
her time as a freelance correspondent for the AAP. She and Maniaty were
the only foreign journalists in Dili when the 'Balibo Five' perished during an
Indonesian onslaught.
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Also in July-August ...
Jeffrey Poacher on Brian Castro's The Bath Fugues
Gregory Kratzmann on the life and poetry of Vincent Buckley
Shirley Walker
on Ruth Park's trilogy
John Byron
on Bob Ellis's nocturnal musings
Plus:
New fiction from Peter Goldsworthy
Meet Michelle de Kretser at 'Open Page'
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FROM JUNE
James Ley discerns new humanity in Samuel Beckett's letters.
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Brian McFarlane contrasts the formal capacities of literature and film in the
context of two new adaptations.
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Michael Morley finds little to admire in Kristin Williamson's biography
of her playwright husband.
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