June 2000 Issue No. 221



Features

LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY
Morag Fraser: Reading the Weather

ROLLING COLUMNS
Barry Dickins: Inevitable and Bizarre New Directions
Peter Pierce: A Round-up of Australian Literary Magazines
Stephen Matthews: Children's Book Council of Australia Fifth National Conference

Reviews

history

Suzanne Fabian and Morag Loh: Left-Wing Ladies Joy Damousi
Brian Matthews: Federation &
David Headon and John Williams (eds): Makers of Miracles Joe Rich

biography

Anna Lanyon: Malinche's Conquest Richard Lunn
Carole Ferrier: Jean Devanny Laurie Clancy
John Miles: Lost Angry Penguins Ninette Dutton

autobiography

Ninette Dutton: Home David McCooey

politics

Paul Kelly: Paradise Divided Dennis Altman

journalism

Prue Torney-Parlicki: Somewhere in Asia Robin Gerster

film

Harriet Margolis (ed): Jane Campion's The Piano Adrian Martin

theatre

Susan Pfisterer (ed): Tremendous Worlds &
Susan Pfisterer and Carolyn Pickett: Playing With Ideas Thérèse Radic

art

Laura Murray Cree and Nevill Drury (eds): Australian Painting Now Traudi Allen
Dick Wittman: William Frater Robert Holden

occult

Michael Wilding: Raising Spirits, Making Gold and Swapping Wives Michael McGirr

anthology

Sarah Neal (ed) Dumped Ceridwen Spark

fiction

Moya Costello: The Office as a Boat John Jenkins
Alex Miller: Conditions of Faith Andrew Riemer
Elizabeth Stead: The Fishcastle Kerryn Goldsworthy
Lau Siew Mei: Playing Madame Mao Katharine England
James Cowan: A Troubador's Testament Marion Halligan
Frederic Manning: The Middle Parts of Fortune Chester Eagle

crime fiction

J.R. Carroll: Hard Yards Sue Turnbull and R.J. Thompson

poetry

Dorothy Hewett and John Kinsella: Wheatlands & John Kinsella: Visitants Martin Harrison
Atlanta Review (Spring/Summer 2000) &
Christopher Kelen: Republics Jennifer Strauss
Wendy Jenkins: Rogue Equations &
Andy Kissane: Every Night They Dance Jennifer Maiden
Poetry Shorts Bev Braune

children's books

Alison Stewart: The Memory Shell &
Odo Hirsch: Something's Fishy, Hazel Green! Stephen Matthews
Amanda McKay: Not Sally Marshall Again! &
Bernie Monagle: blue girl, yella fella Barry Carozzi
Jeri Kroll (illus. Ann James): A Coat of Cats, Colin Thompson (illus. Anna Pignataro): Unkown, Rachel Flynn (illus. Anna Pignataro): Whisper Wild, Freedom Child
& Robert Ingpen: A Bear Tale Margaret Dunkle

shorts

Bruce Bennett and Susan Hayes (eds): Home and Away& Morris Gleitzman: Self-Helpless Melissa Hart
John-Michael Howson: Deadly Dreams & Nancy Robinson Flannery (ed): This Everlasting Silence Elizabeth Dean
Paul Collins: Cyberskin & Jane Downing: Searching for the Volcano Nita Kambouris

bulletin board

Cover this month...
Euan Heng: Navigation 2000, water colour and pencil on paper, 53.5 x 56cm
Courtesy of the artist and Australian Galleries Works on Paper
50 Smith Street, Collingwood, Vic. 3066 Tel: (02) 9417 0800

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