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August 2002
Issue No. 243   A$7.50 (incl.GST)

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LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY

'Dearest Munx': The Love Letters of Christina Stead

Margaret Harris
 

ADVANCES

 

CONTRIBUTORS

 
LETTERS Paul Strangio, Elizabeth Durré, Teresa Pitt, James Bulman-May
 
COMMENTARY Hilary McPhee
 

POLITICS

John Button: Beyond Belief Stuart Macintyre

David Burchell and Andrew Leigh (eds):
The Prince's New Clothes

 

Boris Frankel: When the Boat Comes In
Paul Nursey-Bray and Carol Lee Bacchi (eds): Left Directions

Sean Scalmer: Dissent Events Lionel Orchard

Rosemary Neill: White Out

John Hirst

Bob Carr: Thoughtlines

Neal Blewett

Tariq Ali: The Clash of Fundamentalisms

Russ Radcliffe
 

ITALIAN STUDIES

R.J.B. Bosworth: Mussolini Ros Pesman

Steve Wright: Storming Heaven

Guy Rundle

 

 

MEMOIR

Anne Gray (ed.): The Diaries of Donald Friend

Brenda Niall

Stan Grant: The Tears of Strangers

Tony Birch

Colin McPhedran: White Butterflies

Sylvia Marchant
 

BIOGRAPHY

A.G. Evans: C.Y. O'Connor David Hutchison
 

POEMS

Tom Shapcott
  Brendan Ryan  
  Jill Jones
 

LITERARY CRITICISM

Anne Pender: Christina Stead

Jennifer Gribble

  Maurice Saxby: Images of Australia

Pam Macintyre

  Richard Lansdown: The Autonomy of Literature John Wiltshire
 

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

Peter Bishop

 

 

 

CULTURAL STUDIES

Marion von Adlerstein: The Penguin Book of Etiquette

Anna Goldsworthy

  Xavier Pons (ed.): Departures

Sylvia Lawson

 

NATIONAL NEWS

Marie-Louise Ayres

 

 

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Ronald L. Numbers and John Stenhouse (eds): Disseminating Darwinism

Patrick Wolfe

 

F.W. Nicholas and J.M. Nicholas: Charles Darwin in Australia

Gillian Dooley
 

NATURAL HISTORY

Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths (eds): Words for Country

 

Tom Griffiths: Forests of Ash Chris Wallace-Crabbe

 

Peter Menkhorst and Frank Knight: A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia

Nicholas Drayson
 

MILITARY HISTORY

Ross McMullin: Pompey Elliott Peter Fuller

 

Paul Anderson: When the Scorpion Stings
Gary McKay and Elizabeth Stewart: Vietnam Shots

Peter Pierce
 

POETRY

Chris Andrews: Cut Lunch  

Peter Lloyd: Collage

 

Samuel Wagan Watson: Itinerant Blues

Gig Ryan

Javant Biarujia: Calques

Chris Edwards
 

FICTION

Bernard Cohen: Hardly Beach Weather David Matthews

 

Nicholas Drayson: Confessing a Murder Michael McGirr

 

Alan Saunders: Alanna Robin Gerster

 

Alan Duff: Szabad
Kirsty Gunn: Featherstone
Alan Loney

John Toohey: Quiros

Bronwyn Rivers
 
TWENTY YEARS ON
 
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW AUGUST 2002