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November 1998


Joan Kirner on John Button's As It Happened
Ivor Indyk on Peter Rose's poetry
Barbara Creed on the Public Erotic
Gerard Windsor on The Oxford Book of Australian Letters
Katharine Brisbane on Australian Theatre
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October 1998

Peter Craven on Inga Clendinnen's Reading the Holocaust
Marion Halligan on Amy Witting's Maria's War
Dennis Altman on Two Nations
Joy Damousi onConvict Women
Reviews of major new titles from Oxford University Press
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September 1998

An essay on art and pornography by Edward Colless
John Bryson on Pilger's Hidden Agendas
Philip Morrissey on Roberta Sykes'Snake Dancing
A review of Bernard Smith's Modernism's History
Ivor Indyk on the poetry of Philip Salom
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August 1998

Kerryn Goldsworthy in reply to John Docker
Ross Fitzgerald on Hall's Black Armband Days
Catherine Lumby on Sex and Medicine
Peter Christoff on Beder'sGlobal Spin
Don Anderson on Helen Garner's My Hard Heart
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July 1998

John Docker on writers and critics
Geoffrey Dutton on Roger McDonald's Mr Darwin's Shooter
Don Anderson on Helen Garner
Joan Kirner on Cheryl Kernot
Morag Fraser on Robert Dessaix' Speaking Their Minds
Kerryn Goldsworthy on The Diaries of Barbara Hanrahan
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June 1998

An essay by Gillian Bouras
Peter Craven on Murray Bail's novel, Eucalyptus
David Marr on Geoffrey Robertson's The Justice Game
Rolling Column by Gerard Windsor
Chris Wallace-Crabbe on the poetry of John Forbes
David English on Mudrooroo
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May 1998

In this special anniversary edition,
selections from 200 issues of ABR

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April 1998

Bernard Smith on the Pacific
Greg Dening on Duyker's Daniel Solander
Dorothy Hewett on Mandy Sayer's Dreamtime Alice
Rolling Column by Mark Davis
Robert Manne on the Boyer lectures
Liam Davison on Tom Shapcott's Theatre of Darkness
Nigel Krauth on Bernard Cohen's Snowdome
Peter Pierce on the Fifties
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February/March 1998

David Williamson on Culture Wars
Robert Manne on Raimond Gaita's Romulus, My Father
Joe Rich on the John Howard biography
Peter Craven on the film of Oscar and Lucinda
Michael Sharkey on Bryce Courtenay's Tommo and Hawk
Kerryn Goldsworthy on the Wherretts' Desirelines
Index of books reviewed in 1997
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December 1997/January 1998

Elizabeth Jolley on Ruth Cracknell's memoirs
Jenna Mead on the Greer biography
Inga Glendinnen's essay on the secrets of biography
Robert Adamson on Fay Zwicky's poetry
Interview with Rod Jones
Carmel Bird on the short stories of Thea Astley
Max Charlesworth on the memoirs of John Passmore
Extract from Thomas Shapcott's new novel, Theatre of Darkness
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