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March 2004
Issue No. 259   A$7.95 (incl.GST)

C O N T E N T S




ADVANCES

 

 

LETTERS

Frank Bongiorno, Laurie Hergenhan
 
POLITICS

Robert Manne (ed.): The Howard Years

Neal Blewett
  James Dunn: East Timor Jill Jolliffe
     
ART Irena Zdanowicz and Stephen Coppel: Fred Williams Sebastian Smee
  Peter Conrad: At Home in Australia Patricia Anderson

 

John Poynter: Mr Felton's Bequests

John Rickard

 

Penelope Little: A Studio in Montparnasse

Sarah Thomas
 

Christopher Heathcote et al.: Yvonne Audette

Jason Smith
 

James Broadbent, Suzanne Rickard and Margaret Steven: India, China, Australia

Christopher Menz
 

Peter Steele: Plenty

Stephen Edgar
 

POEMS

Clive James  
Judith Beveridge  
Paul Kane  
 

 

 
GALLERY NOTES Mary Eagle  
     
ARCHITECTURE Francoise Fromonot: Glenn Murcutt Dimity Reed
   
ART IN BRIEF  
   

LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY

Sweet Profusion:
The National Gallery of Victoria Renewed

Daniel Thomas
     
POETRY Clive James: The Book of My Enemy Peter Goldsworthy

 

Judith Beveridge: Wolf Notes

Jennifer Strauss
  Anthony Lawrence: The Sleep of a Learning Man Peter Pierce
   
FILM Peter Conrad: Orson Welles Brian McFarlane
   

GARDENS

Edna Walling: A Gardener's Log Sara Hardy
     
MEDIA Tom Griffiths  
   

HISTORY

Jacqueline Templeton: From the Mountains to the Bush John Thompson
Frank B. Tipton: A History of Modern Germany Gunter Minnerup
Catharine Coleborne and Dolly MacKinnon (eds): 'Madness' in Australia Garry Walter
  Jenny Gregory: City of Light David Hutchison

   
JAPAN Leith Morton: Modern Japanese Culture William H. Coaldrake
 
CULTURAL STUDIES Michael T. Taussig: Law in a Lawless Land Stephen Muecke
     
FICTION Malcolm Knox: A Private Man Jose Borghino

 

Anouar Benmalek: The Child of an Ancient People Simon Caterson
  Elizabeth Stead: The Different World of Fin Starling Dianne Dempsey
   
MEMOIR

Pamela Hardy: Point of Departure
Eva Marks: A Patchwork Life

Joy Hooton

  Phyllis McDuff: A Story Dreamt Long Ago
Brian O'Raleigh: The Boy in the Boat
Richard Johnstone
     
WOMEN'S STUDIES Anne Summers: The End of Equality Liz Conor
     
LAW Bryan Horrigan: Adventures in Law and Justice Grant Bailey
     
CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS Tania Cox, illus. Greg Holfeld: Wolf's Sunday Dinner
Jackie French, illus. Bruce Whatley: Too Many Pears!
Leigh Hobbs: Fiona the Pig
Carolyn Polizzotto and Sarah Spinks, illus. Marion Duke: Trumpet's Kittens
Margaret Wild, illus. David Legge: Baby Boomsticks
Ruth Starke
     
JUNIOR FICTION

Graeme Base: Truck Dogs
Susanne Gervay: Super Jack
Elizabeth Honey: The Ballad of Cauldron Bay
Glenda Millard, illus. Caroline Magerl: The Naming of Tishkin Silk
Michael Stephens: Mudlark

Katherine England
     
FIRST WORD Bernard Smith: The Boy Adeodatus Warren Osmond
 
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW MARCH 2004