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June/July 2002
Issue No. 242   A$7.50 (incl.GST)

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LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY

After the Academy

 

Kerryn Goldsworthy
 

ADVANCES

 

CONTRIBUTORS

 
LETTERS Pat Jalland, Christopher Heathcote, Michael Denholm, Philip Harvey
 
DIARY Dorothy Porter
 

POLITICS

Don Watson: Recollections of a Bleeding Heart Neal Blewett

Paul Strangio: Keeper of the Faith

Gideon Haigh

Gregory Melleuish and Imre Salusinszky (eds): Blaming Ourselves

John Carroll
 

LETTER FROM NEW YORK

Dennis Altman  
 

POEMS

Peter Porter

 

Clive James

   
BUSINESS

Paul Barry: Rich Kids

Bridget Griffen-Foley

 

 

MEMOIR

Grahame Harrison: Night Train to Granada

Jill Kitson

Arnold Zable: The Fig Tree

Susan Varga
 

HISTORY

Mike Dash: Batavia's Graveyard Peter Goldsworthy

 

Mike Cronin and Daryl Adair: The Wearing of the Green Edmund Campion
  Marten A. Syme: Lifeboats for Victoria Barry Hill
     
MILITARY HISTORY War Letters of General Monash Peter Ryan
 

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Brad Collis: Fields of Discovery

Libby Robin

 

 

NATURAL HISTORY Tim Low: The New Nature Peter Menkhorst
 

ESSAY

Patrick White, Sidney Nolan and Me

Tom Rosenthal

 

 

 

LITERARY CRITICISM

James Bulman-May: Patrick White and Alchemy

Richard Bell

  Ken Bolton (ed.): Homage to John Forbes

 

  Ivor Indyk (ed.): David Malouf: A Celebration

David McCooey

LETTERS

Paul Brunton (ed.): Matthew Flinders

John Thompson

NATIONAL NEWS Graeme Powell

 

 

PHILOSOPHY

John Armstrong: Conditions of Love Neil Levy

 

Christopher Falzon: Philosophy Goes to the Movies Tamas Pataki
 

CULTURAL STUDIES

Tara Brabazon: Ladies Who Lunge Natalya Lusty

 

Ghassan Hage (ed.): Arab-Australians Today Anna Yeatman
 

ABORIGINAL STUDIES

Bain Attwood and Fiona Magowan (eds): Telling Stories

Lynette Russell

 

Lynette Russell: A Little Bird Told Me

 

Lynette Russell: Savage Imaginings Kate Guest
 

FICTION

J.M. Coetzee: Youth Jim Davidson

 

John Donnelly: Magic Garage Alison Broinowski

 

Judith Fox: Scraping through Stone Stephanie Trigg
 
CHILDREN'S BOOKS Venero Armanno and Anna Pignataro: The Very Super Adventures of Nic and Naomi

Gary Crew and Bruce Whatley: Quetta

Mem Fox, illus. Tricia Tusa: The Magic Hat

 
Leigh Hobbs: Old Tom's Holiday
Penny Matthews, illus. Andrew McLean: A Year on Our Farm Virginia Lowe
Sarah Brill: Glory
Anna Ciddor: Runestone
Colin Thiele: Swan Song Patrice Newell
 
TWENTY YEARS ON
 
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW JUNE/JULY 2002