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May 2002
Issue No. 241   A$7.50 (incl.GST)

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EDITORIAL
 

LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY

The World Laid Open: Writing and Technological Change

 

Alan Atkinson
 

ADVANCES

 

CONTRIBUTORS

 
LETTERS Jan Fullerton, Janine Burke, Tamas Pataki
 
DIARY Heather Cam
 

POLITICS

Ian Hancock: John Gorton David Day

Mungo MacCallum: Girt by Sea

Julian Burnside

 

HISTORY Warwick Anderson: The Cultivation of Whiteness Tim Rowse

Kathy Grinblat (ed.): Children of the Shadows

Mark Peel

Thomas Keneally: American Scoundrel

Heather Neilson

Pat Jalland: Australian Ways of Death

Marian Quartly
   
POEMS

Alex Skovron

 

Kate Middleton

 

 

 

REFERENCE

Blackshield, Coper and Williams (eds): The Oxford Companion to the High Court

Hugh Dillon

P.A. Howell: South Australia and Federation

 

Wilfrid Prest (ed.): The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History

John Hirst

Jennifer Campbell (ed.): Letters from Our Heart

John Thompson
 
MEDIA Dorothy Horsfield (ed.): Paul Lyneham  

 

Chris Masters: Not for Publication  
  Richard Morecroft: Twenty Years from the Waist Up Gideon Haigh
  David Bell: An Introduction to Cybercultures  
  Manuel Castells: The Internet Galaxy
  Leila Green: Technoculture Ilana Snyder
 
LANGUAGE

Jim Haynes (ed.): The Great Australian Book of Limericks

Gary Simes

 

 

AUTHOR! AUTHOR! José Borghino
 

POETRY

Laurie Hergenhan and Bruce Clunies Ross (eds): The Poetry of Les Murray

 

Steven Matthews: Les Murray

 
  Les Murray: Poems the Size of Photographs

Paul Kane

  Geoff Goodfellow: Poems for a Dead Father

 

  James Charlton: Luminous Bodies

 

  Barry Hill: The Inland Sea

Geoff Page

Robert Gray: Afterimages

Martin Duwell

 
NATIONAL NEWS Kathryn Favelle

 

 

GALLERY NOTES

Mary Eagle
 

MUSIC

Andrew Ford: Undue Noise

Ian Holtham
 

TRAVEL

Gough Whitlam: My Italian Notebook Ros Pesman

 

Christopher Kremmer: The Carpet Wars Tony Wheeler
 

LETTER FROM COPENHAGEN

Heather Neilson

 

FICTION

Kate Jennings: Moral Hazard

Delia

 

Joanna Murray-Smith: Judgement Rock Falconer

 

Jane Clifton: Half Past Dead David

 

Barry Oakley: Don't Leave Me Matthews

 

Gillian Mears: A Map of the Gardens Bronwyn Rivers
 

ANTHROPOLOGY

Derek Freeman: Dilthey's Dream Simon Caterson
 

RELIGION

Eric Osborn: Irenaeus of Lyons Andrew Hamilton
 
CHILDREN'S BOOKS Vashti Farrer, illus. Sue O'Loughlin: Walers Go to War

Simon French, illus. Donna Rawlins: Guess the Baby

Norman Jorgensen, illus. Brian Harrison-Lever: In Flanders Fields

 
Mtingali Napanangka Mudgedell: The Cocky, the Crow and the Hawk
Bai Bai Napangarti: Luurnpa Margot Hillel
Catherine Bateson: Painted Love Letters
Peter Jeans: Bodger
Paul Jennings: Tongue-Tied!
Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor: Njunjul the Sun
David McRobbie: Mum, Me, the 19C Pam Macintyre
 
TWENTY YEARS ON
 
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW MAY 2002