February /March 1999 Issue No. 208
Features
ESSAY
John Frow: 'Res Publica'
ROLLING COLUMN
Moya Costello: 'Editor'
INDEX OFBOOKS REVIEWED IN1998
Reviews
cultural studies
Roslynn D. Haynes: Seeking the Centre: The Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film Robert Drewe
Peter Conrad: Modern Times, Modern Places: Life & Art in the 20th Century Don Anderson
John Carroll: Ego and Soul: The Modern West in Search of Meaning David Tacey
essays
Peter Craven (ed): The Best Australian Essays 1998 Kerryn Goldsworthy
music
Warren Bebbington (ed): A Dictionary of Australian Music Robert Ewins
biography
Peter Robb: M: The Biography of Caravaggio Peter Craven
history
Thomas Kenneally: The Great Shame Peter Pierce
chinese studies
Michael Dutton: Streetlife China Robin Gerster
politics
Phillip Bell & Roger Bell (eds): Americanization and Australia Ross Fitagerald
Bob Ellis: First Abolish the Customer: 202 Arguments Against Economic Rationalism Dennis Altman
fiction
Bryce Courtenay: Jessica Laurie Clancy
Australian Summer Stories Katharine England
Kathy Lette: Altar Ego Airlie Lawson
Tom Gilling: The Sooterkin Chris Feik
poetry
Dorothy Porter: What a Piece of Work Dorothy Hewett
R.A. Simpson: The Impossible and Other Poems Martin Harrison
Timoshenko Aslanides: AnniVersaries Robert Adamson
Kathy Kituai: The Lacemaker & M.T.C. Cronin: The World Beyond the Fig Michael Costigan
fiction for young readers
Catherine Jinks: The Stinking Great Lie & Jane Godwin: The Family Tree Margaret Dunkle
Rod McLean: Eric and Ian Get a Life,Jacqueline Ross: The Third Room
& Deborah Lisson: Red Hugh Stephen Matthews
Ian Bone: Fat Boy Saves the WorldTess Brady
shorts
Jessica Adams: Single White E-Mail, James Kirby: My Mother's Diamonds
& Kristin Williams: Treading on Dreams Duncan Webb
bulletin board
Cover this month...
Tess Edwards: Indicia 1997-8
mixed media on liturgical text, 15.5 x 22cm
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