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February 2005
Issue No. 268   A$8.95 (incl.GST)

C O N T E N T S




ADVANCES

 

LETTERS

Peter Rodgers, Morry Schwartz, Jeremy Fisher, Hugh Dillon, Henry Ergas, Barry Donovan, Graham Rodger
 
CONTRIBUTORS

 
 
LANGUAGE

Peter Bowler:
The Superior Person's Third Book of Words
Julian Burnside: Wordwatching
Kate Burridge: Weeds in the Garden of Words
Richard Glover: The Dag's Dictionary
Don Watson: Watson's dictionary of Weasel Words

Frederick Ludowyk
 
POEMS Judith Beveridge
Chris Edwards
Peter Steele
 
POLITICS Peter Browne and Julian Thomas (eds):
A Win and a Prayer
Mungo MacCallum: Run, Johnny, Run

Alison Rogers: The Natasha Factor
Robyn Eckersley: The Green State

Philip Selth
Margaret Fitzherbert
Emily Potter
 

BIOGRAPHY

Peter Ryan : Brief Lives
Alasdair McGregor: Frank Hurley
Mary Lord
John Thompson
 
ART HISTORY Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon: Papunya: A Place Made after the Story
Tim Bonyhady
 
ABORIGINAL STUDIES

David McKnight: Going the Whiteman's Way

Inga Clendinnen
 
LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY 'Famous Battles in the War between Words and Music: From Monteverdi to Puff Daddy' Peter Goldsworthy
GALLERY NOTES Patrick McCaughey
 
ANTHOLOGY Frank Moorhouse (ed.):
The Best Australian Stories 2004
Gail Jones
 
SHORT STORIES

Marian Devitt (ed.): True North
Lauren Finger et al.: Loose Lips
Michael Wilding and David Myers (eds):
Best Stories under the Sun




Michael Williams
 
FICTION Thomas Shapcott: Spirit Wrestlers
Bryce Courtenay: Brother Fish
Colleen McCullough: Angel Puss
Joy Hooton
Gillian Dooley
Nicola Walker
 
LITERARY CRITICISM Pacita Alexander and Elizabeth Perkins: A Love Affair with Australian Literature
Stephen Knight: Crime Fiction 1800-2000
Martin Priestman (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction

Anthony Hassall


Rick Thompson
 
JOURNALS

Natasha Harris (ed.): Traffic No. 5
Ivor Indyk (ed.): HEAT 8
David McCooey (ed.): Life Writing, Vol.1, No.2



Melinda Harvey
 
REVIEWING COMPETITION WINNERS Robert Dessaix : Twilight of Love
Sophie Cunningham: Geography
Jeannie Baker: Belonging

Vivienne Kelly
Maya Linden
Stephanie Owen Reeder

 
COMMENTARY

Tom Griffiths

 
CULTURAL STUDIES McKenzie Wark: A Hacker Manifesto Owen Richardson
 
LETTER FROM TANZANIA Josh Wilson
 
REFERENCE Raymond John Howgego:
Encycolpedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850
Ian Morrison
 
TRAVEL Tim Jarvis: The Unforgiving Minute
Brigid Hains
 
PACIFIC STUDIES Brij V. Lal (ed.): Bittersweet
Katherine Cummings
 
POETRY Lionel Fogarty: Minyung Woolah Binnung
Samuel Wagan Watson: Smoke Encrypted Whispers
Michael Thwaites: Unfinished Journey

Peter Minter
Philip Harvey
 
CINEMA STUDIES Felicity Collins and Therese Davis:
Australian Cinema after Mabo

John Slavin
 
LAW Greg Craven: Conversations with the Constitution
James Upcher
 
INDEX Index for 2004: Nos 258-267
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW FEBRUARY 2005