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February 2002
Issue No. 238   A$7.50 (incl.GST)

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EDITORIAL
 

LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY

'Heddy and I': Relational Life-writing in Susan Varga's Heddy and Me

Richard Freadman
 

ADVANCES

 

CONTRIBUTORS

 
LETTERS John Arnold, Charles Richardson
 

DIARY

Nicola Walker
 
SOCIETY

Guy Rundle: The Opportunist

 

Don Watson: Rabbit Syndrome

John Rickard
  James Jupp (ed.): The Australian People Allan Patience

Martin Lyons and John Arnold (eds): A History of the Book in Australia 1891-1945

David Carter

Nonja Peters: Milk and Honey but No Gold

David Hutchison

Judith A. Feeney et al.: Becoming Parents

Tom Shapcott: Twins in the Family Doris Brett

Kerreen M. Reiger: Our Bodies, Our Babies

Helen Marshall
 
POEMS

Clive James

Geoff Page  
Chris Wallace-Crabbe  
Peter Minter
 
ANTHOLOGY Peter Craven: The Best Australian Stories 2001 Hilary McPhee
 

BIOGRAPHY

Judith Armstrong: The Cook and the Maestro Chris Wallace-Crabbe
 
POETRY Peter Porter: Max Is Missing Peter Goldsworthy
Geoff Page: Darker and Lighter Martin Duwell
  Chris Edwards: Utensils in a Landscape
Liat Kirby: Curving My Eyes to Almonds

  Michael Sariban: Luxuries

David McCooey

Paul Hetherington: Stepping Away

Ian McBryde: Equatorial

David Gilbey
James K. Baxter: New Selected Poems Philip Harvey
 

LETTER FROM ICELAND

Kári Gíslason  
 
MEDIA Alan McKee: Australian Television

Catharine Lumby

  David Crystal: Language and the Internet

Ilana Snyder

 

PACIFIC STUDIES

Robert Dixon: Prosthetic Gods Kate Darian-Smith

 

R.J. May: State and Society in Papua New Guinea

 

Reagan, Jessup and Kwa (eds): Twenty Years of the PNG Constitution

James Griffin

 

Donald Denoon et al.: Multicultural Japan

 

Paul Jones and Vera Mackie (eds): Relationships: Japan and Australia Neville Meaney
 

CLASSICS

John Whitehorne: Cleopatras Colin Hope
 

FICTION

Philip McLaren: Scream Black Murder

 

Philip McLaren: Sweet Water ... Stolen Land

 

Philip McLaren: There'll Be New Dreams Tony Smith
 

REISSUES

Robert Drewe: A Cry in the Jungle Bar

 
 

Robert Drewe: The Drowner

 

Robert Drewe: The Savage Crows

Robert Drewe: The Shark Net Michael McGirr
 
CRIME FICTION Marshall Browne: Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools

 

Jon Cleary: Yesterday's Shadow

 

Andrew Masterson: Death of the Author

David Honeybone
 
CHILDREN'S BOOKS Gael Cresp: The Biography of Gilbert Alexander Pig
Nette Hilton, illus. Anne Supdvilas: In My Backyard

Geoffrey Lehmann, illus. Caroline Magerl: Sky Boy

 
Elizabeth Stanley: Night without Darkness

Margaret Wild, illus. Wayne Harris: The House of Narcissus

Moira Robinson
 
INDEX Books Reviewed in 2001
 
TWENTY YEARS ON
 
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW FEBRUARY 2002