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December 2004-January 2005
Issue No. 267   A$8.95 (incl.GST)

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ADVANCES

 

 

LETTERS

Rob Watts, John Tranter, Peter Nicholls, Julian Burnside, Tony Thompson, Bridget Griffen-Foley
 
NATIONAL NEWS

The Manning Clark Archives

Graeme Powell
 
POLITICS

Barry Donovan: Mark Latham

Margaret Simons: Latham's World

Neal Blewett

David Carter (ed.): The Ideas Market

Humphrey McQueen

Bruce Grant: Fatal Attraction

 

Linda Weiss, Elizabeth Thurbon & John Matthews:
How to Kill a Country


Jock Given
 
ANTHOLOGY Robert Dessaix (ed.): The Best Australian Essays 2004
Delia Falconer

Donata Carrazza and Paul Kane (eds): Vintage

Morag Fraser

Anthony Lawrence (ed.): The Best Australian Poetry 2004

 

Les Murray (ed.): The Best Australian Poems 2004

Brian Henry
 
BEST BOOKS
 
 

JOURNALS

Chris Healy & Stephen Muecke (eds):
Cultural Studies Review Vol. 10, No. 2
 

Julianna Schultz (ed.): Griffith Review 5

 

Ian Britain (ed.): Meanjin Vol. 63, No. 3

James Ley
 
POEMS Clive James
John Slavin

 
 
LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY


The sound and the Fury: Uneasy Times for Hacks and Critics


Peter Rose
 
COMMENTARY Ivor Indyk
 
GARDEN HISTORY Richard Aitken: Gardenesque
Richard Aitken and Michael Looker (eds):
The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens


Paul de Serville
 
FOOD Stephanie Alexander : The Cook's Companion
Gay Bilson: Plenty

Richard Johnstone
 
MEMOIR

Gavin Souter: Times & Tides
John Marsden: I Am What I Am
Robert Macklin: War Babies
Michael Blackmore: Arguments with England
Tim Chappell: The Perusian Blanket
Anna Rosner Blay: Not Paradise

Alan Atkinson
Robert Reynolds
Brian McFarlane
Phillip Drew

Gay Bilson
 
ART Betty Churcher: The Art of War
Catherine Speck: Painting Ghosts
Daniel Thomas
Heather Johnstone
 
FICTION Nicholas Angel : Drown Them in the Sea
Jillian Watkinson: The Hanging Tree
Joy Hooton: Leavetaking
Adriana Koulias: Temple of the Grail
Belinda Alexandra: Wild Lavender
Tobsha Learner: Tremble
Cassandra Austin: Seeing George
Robert Engwerda: Backwaters
John Honey: Paint

Lorien Kaye

Gillian Dooley
Judith Armstrong
Thuy On


Gaylene Perry
 
POETRY

Peter Porter: Afterburner
Syd Harrex: Under a Medlar Tree
Tim Thorne: Head and Shin

Martin Duwell

Geoff Page
 
MUSIC Peter Bassett : The Nibelung's Ring
David Charlton (ed.):
The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera



Peter Porter

 
CULTURAL STUDIES Gerard Goggin (ed.): Virtual Nation
Liz Conor: The Spectacular Modern Woman
Joel Deane
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
 
PHILOSOPHY Martha C. Nussbaum: Hiding from Humanity Tamas Pataki
 
HISTORY Heidi Zogbaum: Kisch in Australia
Peter Rodgers: Herzl's Nightmare
Chris McConville
Colin Rubenstein
 
MILITARY HISTORY Neil McDonald : Chestor Wilmot Reports John Connor
 
TRUE CRIME John Dale: Wild Life
Phillip Clark
 
BEST CHILDREN'S BOOKS
 
 
CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS Anna Fienberg and Barbara Fienberg, illus. Kim Gamble: There Once Was a Boy Called Tashi
Gregory Rogers: The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard
Colin Thompson, illus. Ben Redlich: The Great Montefiasco



Stella Lees
 
YOUNG ADULT FICTION Sonya Hartnett: The Silver Donkey
Prue Mason: Camel Rider
Leonie Norrington: The Last Muster



Dianne Schallmeiner
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW DECEMBER 2004-JANUARY 2005