July 1997 Issue No. 192



Features

INTERVIEW: Elizabeth Jolley
ROLLING COLUMNS: Richard Hall, John McLaren, Dorothy Porter, Philip Salom
NATIONAL LIBRARY AUSTRALIAN VOICES ESSAY
John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan: Reader, I Married Him
EXTRACT: from David Ireland's The Chosen

Reviews

history/biography

Peter Beilharz: Imagining the Antipodes Greg Dening
Humphrey McQueen: Suspect History Peter Craven
D.W.A. Baker: The Civilised Surveyor Barry Hill

history of music

Peter John Tregear: The Conservatorium of Music,
University of Melbourne Joe Rich

art/biography

Barbara Blackman: Glass After Glass Brenda Niall

academic culture

Damien Broderick: Theory and Its Discontents McKenzie Wark
Leigh Dale: The English Men David Matthews

literary biography

David Carter: A Career in Writing John McLaren

the arts

Katharine Brisbane (ed): Critical Perspectives Humphrey McQueen

biography

T.P. Boland: Thomas Carr Michael McGirr

history

Raymond Evans et al (eds): 1901 Anne Henderson

asian studies

Stephen Fitzgerald: Is Australia an Asian Country? Robyn Gerster
Anthony Miller (ed): Australia in Asia: Comparing Cultures and Anthony & Mary Quilty (eds): Australia in Asia: Communities of Thought Alison Broinowski

fiction

Elizabeth Jolley: Lovesong Jill Kitson
David Foster: The Ballad of Erinungarah Geoffrey Dutton
Nicholas Jose: The Custodians Andrew Riemer
Marion Halligan: Collected Stories Brenda Walker
Hugh Mackay: House Guest Laurie Clancy

war and the arts

Caroline Brothers: War and Photography
& Anne Rutherford and James Wieland (eds):
War: Australia's Creative Response Peter Pierce

australian culture

Quentin Dempster: Whistleblowers Guy Rundle
Women's Circus Leaping off the Edge Lisa Kerrigan

food and wine

Eric Rolls: A Celebration of Food and Wine Tina Muncaster

poetry

Philip Hodgins: Selected Poems Jennifer Maiden
John Kinsella: Poems 1980-1994 Ivor Indyk
Wadih Sa'adeh: A Secret Sky Thomas Shapcott

children's books

Sonya Hartnett: Princes Nicola Robinson
Tim Winton: Lockie Leonard: Legend Andrew Block
Phillipa Burne: Fishnets & Jocelyn Harewood: Spiked Pam Macintyre
Linda Aronson: Kelp & Warren Flynn: Gaz Takes Off Tess Brady
Picture Books: Linnet Hunter

Regular Features

SHORTS: Juliet Cummins, Marcus Niski, Margaret Steinberger
AND ALSO
BULLETIN BOARD

Cover this month...
Euan Heng: Stargazer 1996, oil on linen 76 x 76cm,
courtesy of Australian Galleries, 35 Derby Street, Collingwood, Vic. 3066

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