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May 2005
Issue No. 271   A$8.95 (incl.GST)

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ADVANCES

 

LETTERS

Judith Bishop, Angus Trumble, Nick Drayson, Martin Crotty, John Bugg, Juno Gemes, Cameron Forbes
 
HISTORY

John Dawson: Washout

Robert Manne
 
ABORIGINAL STUDIES

A. Dirk Moses (ed.): Genocide and Settler Society
Rene Powell and Bernadette Kennedy: Rene Baker File #28/E.D.P.

Marilyn Lake
Ceridwen Spark

 
POEMS

Brendan Ryan
Alan Gould
Peter Porter

 
 
POLITICS Sally Young: The Persuaders
Andrew Ross and Kristen Ross (eds): Anti-Americanism
Shahram Akbarzadeh and Samina Yasmeen (eds):
Islam and the West

Nicholas Jose
Brendon O'Connor

Samiul Hasan
 

MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

Barry Rubin: The Tragedy of the Middle East Shahram Akbarzadeh
 
THEATRE NOTES

The Ham Funeral

John Rickard
 
NATIONAL NEWS

Acquisitive Librarians: Kenneth Binns and Harold White

Graeme Powell

 
BIOGRAPHY Barbara Caine: Bombay to Bloomsbury Ian Britain
MEMOIR

Kate Llewellyn : Playing with Water
Catherine DeVrye: Who Says I Can't?
Muriel Mathers: Father and Daughter

Judy Armstrong
Robert Reynolds
Shirley Walker

 

JOURNALISM

Eric Campbell : Absurdistan
Sally Neighbour: In the Shadow of Swords

Philip Clark
Vivienne Kelly

 
CULTURAL STUDIES

Judith Ryan and Chris Wallace-Crabbe (eds): Imagining Australia

Lisa Gorton
 
LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY 'Spasms of Assertion': The Politics and Aesthetics of Blogging Richard Johnstone
 
MEDIA

Travellers' Tales

Bridget Griffen-Foley
 
EDUCATION

Hazel Smith: The Writing Experiment

Rick Hosking
 
LITERARY CRITICISM Grace Moore: Dickens and Empire

Graham Tulloch

 
GALLERY NOTES

Collecting the British

Jaynie Anderson
 
INDONESIAN STUDIES Anthony Reid : An Indonesian Frontier John Monfries
 
FICTION

Peter Raftos: The Stone Ship
Eva Sallis: The Marsh Birds
John Clanchy: Vincenzo's Garden
Suzanne Hawley: Alison Says
Ian Townsend: Affection

Carolyn Tetaz
Irene Drumm
Christina Hill
Lisa Temple
Peter Pierce
 
ART Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller (with Judith Pugh):
Degenerates and Perverts
Sarah Thomas
 
LETTER FROM BALTIMORE Angus Trumble
 
POETRY

Geoff Goodfellow: Punch On Punch Off
Andrew Lansdown: Fontanelle


David Gilbey
 
TRAVEL James O'Loghlin : A Month of Sundays Phil Brown
 
NATURAL HISTORY

Michael F. Braby:
The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia

Peter Menkhorst
 
YOUNG ADULT FICTION Odo Hirsch : Slaughterboy Stephanie Trigg
 
PARENTING

Jackie French : Rocket Your Child into Reading
Sandra Heriot and Ivan Beale: Is Your Child Ready for School?
Leanne Rowe and David Bennett: You Can't Make Me
Kerrie Shanahan: Springboard to Reading and Writing




Pam Macintyre
 
CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS Mem Fox, illus. Pamela Lofts: Hunwick's Egg
Leigh Hobbs: Hooray for Horrible Harriet
Stephen Michael King: Mutt Dog!
Robin Lovell, illus. David Miller: Where There's Smoke
A.B. 'Banjo' Patterson, illus. Freya Blackwood:
The Man from Snowy River




Stephanie Owen Reeder
 
CHILDREN'S NON-FICTION Dianne Bates: Money Smart Kids
Janeen Brian: Hoosh! Camels in Australia
John Long, illus. Brian Choo: The Big Picture Book


Robyn Sheahan-Bright
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW MAY 2005

 

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