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February 2006
Issue No. 278   A$8.95 (incl.GST)

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ADVANCES

 

LETTERS

Ken Goodwin, Peter Kirkpatrick, Dennis Altman, Margaret Manion, Jack Bradstreet, Val Wake, Kerry Leves, Ray Marginson, Noni Durack

 
MEDIA Redneck radio Bridget Griffen-Foley
LITERARY STUDIES Chris Wallace-Crabbe: The Universe Looks Down
Chris Wallace-Crabbe: Read It Again Greg Kratzmann
Hazel Rowley: Tete-a-Tete Colin Nettelbeck
Dennis Altman: Gore Vidal's America Heather Neilson
 
HISTORY Geoffrey Blainey: A Short History of the 20th Century Barry Jones
Simon Leys: The Wreck of the Batavia Peter Goldsworthy
F.W. Kent: Lorenzo de' Medici and the Art of Magnificence Ros Pesman
Christopher Cunneen (ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography Supplement, 1580–1980 Paul Brunton
Ann Curthoys and John Docker: Is History Fiction? Anna Clark
 
POEMS Brendan Ryan
James Gleeson
 
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY Regina Ganter (with Julia Martinez and Gary Lee): Mixed Relations Tim Rowse
 
MUSIC Moffatt Oxenbould: Timing is Everything John Slavin
 
FICTION Gail Jones: Dreams of Speaking Kerryn Goldsworthy
Roger McDonald: The Ballad of Desmond Kale Michael Williams
David Whish-Wilson: The Summons W.H. Chong
Alex Skovron: The Poet Paul Hetherington
 
POLITICS Don Aitken: What Was It All For?
Hugh Stretton: Australia Fair Dennis Altman
 
ANTHOLOGY Frank Moorhouse (ed.): The Best Australian Stories 2005 James Ley
Garrie Hutchinson (ed.): Eyewitness Martin Ball
 
ESSAYS Beverley Farmer: The Bone House Michelle Griffin
 
LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY Against Religion Tamas Pataki
 
MEMOIR Edward Woodward: One Brief Interval John Button
Susan Magarey (ed.): Ever Yours, C.H. Spence Elizabeth Webby
Noeline Brown: Noeline
Jacki Weaver: Much Love, Jac X Richard Johnstone
 
JOURNALS Patricia McCarthy (ed.): Agenda
John Tranter (ed.): Jacket 28 Lisa Gorton
 
POETRY Jennifer Strauss (ed.): The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore, Volume 1 Vivian Smith
Joel Deane: Subterranean Radio Songs

Penelope Layland: Suburban Anatomy

John Jenkins
 
REVIEWING Michael Ackland: Henry Handel Richardson Ann-Marie Priest
COMPETITION Catherine Rey: The Spruiker's Tale Denise O'Dea
WINNERS Sophie Masson: In Hollow Lands Geoffrey Miller
 
SPORT Richie Benaud: My Spin on Cricket
Steve Waugh: Out of My Comfort Zone Brian Matthews
 
BIOGRAPHY

Jenny Hocking: Frank Hardy

Christina Hill
 
CULTURAL STUDIES

Judith Johnston and Monica Anderson (eds): Australia Imagined

David Carter
 
INDEX

Index for 2005: Issues 268–277

AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW FEBRUARY 2006

 

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