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May 2003
Issue No. 251   A$7.95 (incl.GST)

C O N T E N T S




ADVANCES

 

 

LETTERS

Tom Shapcott, Peter Beilharz, Angus Trumble
 
CONTRIBUTORS

 

 

REFERENCE

Peter Craven (ed.): The Best Australian Essays 2002

Clive James

Mark Willhardt and Alan Michael Parker (eds):
Who's Who in Twentieth-Century World Poetry

Geoff Page

Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs (eds):
The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
 

Douglas R.G. Sellick: Venus in Transit

Ros Pesman

 

 
POLITICS

Michael Pusey: The Experience of Middle Australia

John Murphy

Chris Lydgate: Lee's Law

Ian Stewart: The Mahathir Legacy

Peter Mares
Joan Beaumont et al.: Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats Peter Edwards

Stanley Aronowitz and Heather Gautney (eds): Implicating Empire

Peter Beilharz
  Heather Tyler: Asylum Eva Sallis
Abdullah Saeed: Islam in Australia Michael Humphrey

POEMS

Geoff Page

 

Stephen Edgar

 
Peter Steele
 

LETTER FROM BEIRUT

Abbas El-Zein

 
 

LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY

Only as a Last Resort: Reflections on War and Justice

Raimond Gaita
 
HISTORY Geoffrey Blainey: The Rush That Never Ended
Deborah Gare et al. (eds): The Fuss That Never Ended Frank Bongiorno
Thomas Keneally: Lincoln Donna Merwick
 

MEMOIR

Tim Bowden: Spooling Through Brian McFarlane
Renée Goossens: Belonging Joy Hooton
Patti Miller: Whatever the Gods Do Aviva Tuffield

 

Tim Cope and Chris Hatherly: Off the Rails

Tony Wheeler
 

FICTION

Brian Castro: Shanghai Dancing Alison Broinowski
John Scott : Warra Warra Don Anderson
Michelle de Kretser: The Hamilton Case Gail Jones
  Brett D'Arcy : The Mindless Ferocity of Sharks Peter Pierce

Alan Attwood : Burke's Soldier Michael McGirr
David Kelly : Fantastic Street
Julia Osborne: Falling Glass Bronwyn Rivers
  Mardi McConnochie : The Snow Queen Judith Armstrong
 

POETRY

Stephen Edgar: Lost in the Foreground Judith Beveridge
Connie Barber: Sand
William C. Clarke: A Momentary Stay Georgie Arnott
 
EDUCATION Richard Teese and John Polesel: Undemocratic Schooling

Ilana Snyder

 
BUSINESS Mark Westfield: HIH Gideon Haigh
 
CRIMINOLOGY Julian V. Roberts et al.: Penal Populism and Public Opinion Russell Hogg

 

PHILOSOPHY

Val Plumwood: Environmental Culture

Janna Thompson

Janna Thompson: Taking Responsibility for the Past

Kristie Dunn
Craig Taylor: Sympathy Eamon Evans

MEDIA

Lyn Gorman and David McLean : Media and Society in the Twentieth Century

Terry Flew

 

Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson and Alessio Cavallaro (eds): Prefiguring Cyberculture

Christy Dena
 
NATURAL HISTORY

John J. Riley and David P. Banks: Orchids of Australia

Silas Clifford-Smith
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW APRIL 2003