CURRENT
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JULY-AUGUST 2009 No. 313 $9.95
ADVANCES
The
latest literary news from the Editor's desk.
OPINION
John Carmody, Margaret Merrilees, Jane Goodall
FEATURES
'Subterranean Passion': John Brack and the search for order Chris Wallace-Crabbe READ FOR FREE
'Aurochs and Angels': Brian Castro’s The Bath Fugues Jeffrey Poacher
'Daydream Believer': M.J. Hyland’s This Is How Rebecca Starford READ FOR FREE
'The Skull beneath the Skin': The life and poetry of Vincent Buckley Gregory Kratzmann
'Australian Literature and the Missing Body': On the Macquarie PEN Anthology Nicholas Jose
'Bitter Fruit': Ruth Park’s trilogy Shirley Walker
'The Bet': A new short story Peter Goldsworthy
'Or Words to That Effect': Bob Ellis’s nocturnal musings John Byron
Open Page': ABR meets the prize-winning author Michelle de Kretser READ FOR FREE
FICTION
Anthony O’Neill: The Unscratchables Belinda Burns
Nick Earls: The True Story of Butterfish Dean Biron
Barry Heard: Tag Adrian Mitchell
LITERARY STUDIES
Jane Austen: The Later Manuscripts Graham Tulloch
HISTORY
Ross Fitzgerald, Lyndon Megarrity and David Symons (eds): Made in Queensland Bill Metcalf
Brian Harrison: Seeking a Role Neal Blewett
David Horner, Peter Londey and Jean Bou (eds): Australian Peacekeeping Alex Bellamy
Judith Keene: Treason on the Airwaves Jock Given
JOURNALS
Antipodes Vol. 22, No. 2 Anthony Lynch
Overland 195 Jay Daniel Thompson
POEM
John Kinsella
INDIGENOUS STUDIES
Noel Pearson: Up from the Mission Jon Altman
EAST TIMOR
Tony Maniaty: Shooting Balibo Jill Jolliffe READ FOR FREE
POLITICS
Frank Cain: Terrorism and Intelligence in Australia Andrew O’Neil
Brett Bowden: The Empire of Civilization Roland Bleiker
BIOGRAPHY
Shirley Walker: The Ghost at the Wedding Brenda Niall READ FOR FREE
Leslie Mitchell: Maurice Bowra Ian Donaldson
DIARIES
Paul Ham (ed.): Captain Bullen’s War Elisabeth Holdsworth
FILM
Lorraine Mortimer: Terror and Joy Nick Prescott
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Tom Taylor and Colin Wilson: The Example
James Barclay et al.: Flinch
Adrian Tomine: Summer Blonde Chris Flynn
TRAVEL
Roger Averill: Boy He Cry Jane Goodall
POETRY
Kate Middleton: Fire Season Gig Ryan
Emily Ballou: The Darwin Poems Elizabeth Campbell
SOCIETY
Robert Wainwright and Paola Totaro: Born or Bred? Ben Eltham
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Belinda Jeffrey: Brown Skin Blue Gillian Wills
AUSTRALIAN
BOOK REVIEW