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April 2002
Issue No. 240   A$7.50 (incl.GST)

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EDITORIAL
 

LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY

Neighbours: Poles, Jews and the Aboriginal Question

Martin Krygier
 

ADVANCES

 

CONTRIBUTORS

 
LETTERS Hilary McPhee, Richard Flanagan, Richard Freadman, Roger Clark, Matthew Richardson
 

DIARY

Angus Trumble
 
ART

Janine Burke: Australian Gothic

 

T.G. Rosenthal: Sidney Nolan

Jaynie Anderson
  Brenda Niall: The Boyds Michael Shmith

Ashley Crawford and Ray Edgar: Spray

 

Edwina Preston: Howard Arkley

Susan McCulloch-Uehlin

Bernard Smith: Australian Painting 1788-2000

Daniel Thomas
Sylvia Harrison: Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism  

Wayne Koestenbaum: Andy Warhol

 

Susan Sontag: Where the Stress Falls

Evelyn Juers

Traudi Allen: Cross-currents in Contemporary Australian Art

 

Brad Buckley and John Conomos (eds): Republics of Ideas

 

Adam Geczy and Benjamin Genocchio (eds): What Is Installation?

Mary Eagle

Patricia Anderson: Elwyn Lynn's Art World

Nancy Underhill

Mark Ferson and Mary Nilsson (eds): Art Deco in Australia

Christopher Menz
Miranda Carter: Anthony Blunt Patrick McCaughey
Terry Smith (ed.): Impossible Presence Charles Green
 
COMMENTARY Susan McCulloch-Uehlin  
 

PERFORMING ARTS

Vijay Mishra: Bollywood Cinema Ian Britain
Graeme Turner (ed.): The Film Cultures Reader Brian McFarlane
Don Rubin et al. (eds): The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Asia/Pacific Peter Eckersall
 
AUTHOR! AUTHOR! Peter Bishop
 
REISSUES

Miles Franklin: Joseph Furphy

 

  Joseph Furphy: The Buln-buln and the Brolga

Brian Matthews

Clive James: Always Unreliable Craig Sherborne
 

ESSAYS

Frank Moorhouse: The Inspector-General of Misconception

Peter Pierce
 

POEMS

 

Dorothy Porter

 
  Chris Edwards

 

  Kate Middleton

 

 
BIOGRAPHY Susan Solomon: The Coldest March

Brigid Hains

  P. Bernard Jones and Don Dale-Jones: T.H. Jones: Poet of Exile

Julian Croft

 

FICTION

Chloe Hooper: A Child's Book of True Crime

 

Ian Kennedy Smith: Regret Bronte Adams
 

POETRY

Martin Harrison: Summer

 

Devin Johnston: Telepathy

 

Geraldine McKenzie: Duty Brian Edwards
 

GALLERY NOTES

John Mateer
 
CHILDREN'S BOOKS Pamela Allen: The Potato People

Maisie (Yarrcali) Barlow, illus. Michael (Boiyool) Anning: Jirrbal: Rainforest Dreamtime Stories

James Cattell and Dorelle Davidson: Confessions of a Bad Dog

 
Libby Hathorn, illus. Brigitta Stoddart: Okra and Acacia Margaret Robson Kett
Anthony Hill, illus. Mark Sofilas: Forbidden
Brendan Murray: Tev
Martine Murray: The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley
Ruth Starke: Saving Saddler Street Robyn Sheahan-Bright
 
TWENTY YEARS ON
 
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW APRIL 2002