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November 2003

Bridget Griffen-Foley reviews Bruce Page's The Murdoch Archipelago

Alan Atkinson reviews Inga Clendinnen's Dancing with Strangers

Peter Craven review's Elliot Perlman's Seven Types of Ambiguity

Martin Duwell reviews John Tranter's Studio Moon

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October 2003

Tony Birch reviews Stuart Macintyre and Anne Clark's The History Wars
and Robert Manne's Whitewash

Peter Ryan reviews Chester Porter's autobiography Walking on Water

Spring Reading by Lolla Stewart

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September 2003

Clive James on The Meaning of Recognition
Gideon Haigh
 reviews David Flint's The Twilight of the Élites
Brian Matthews reviews Gary Linnell's Playing God and Steve Strevens: Bob Rose
Shirley Walker reviews Sean Monahan's A Long and Winding Road

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August 2003

Commentary by Sir William Deane
Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews Margaret Simons: The Meeting of Waters
Andreas Gaile reviews Peter Carey's My Life As a Fake
Neal Blewett reviews Marilyn Dodkin's Bob Carr

Jennifer Strauss reviews Anne Whitehead's Bluestocking in Patagonia

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June/July 2003

Dennis Altman on Superstition and Idolatry
Greg Dening reviews Edward Duyker's Citizen Labillardiere
Kim Mahood reviews Irris Makler's Our Woman in Kabul
Tony Blackshield reviews Philip Ayres' Owen Dixon

John Rickard reviews Iain McCalman's The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro
Amanda Smith reviews Nova by Nova Peris with Ian Heads

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May 2003

Raimond Gaita on War and Justice
Clive James reviews The Best Australian Essays 2002
Ros Pesman reviews The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing and Venus in Transit
Donna Merwick reviews Thomas Keneally's Lincoln

Don Anderson reviews John Scott's Warra Warra
John Murphy reviews Michael Pusey's The Experience of Middle Australia
Peter Mares reviews Chris Lydgate's Lee's Law and Ian Stewart's The Mahathir Legacy

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April 2003

Peter Bishops' La Trobe Essay: The Language of a Private World
John Monfires on Patrick Weller's Don't Tell the Prime Minister
John Connor on Frontier Conflict
Two poems from Clive James

Ceridwen Spark reviews June Dally-Watkins' The Secrets Behind My Smile, Susan Mitchell's Kerryn and Jackie and Robert Wainwright's Rose
John Martinkus reviews Paul McGeough's Manhattan to Baghdad
Warwick Hadfield reviews John Gascoigne (ed.): Over and Out and Gideon Haigh's The Vincibles

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March 2003

Patrick McCaughey's Essay: A Sketch Portrait of Fred Williams
Edwina Preston reviews
Barry Dickins' Black + Whiteley
Morag Fraser reviews the Morris & Co. exhibition
Peter Robb reviews Raymond John Howgego's

Encyclopedia of Exploration

Bridget Griffen-Foley's essay on 200 years of newspapers
Allan Patience reviews Peter Singer's One World
Simon Caterson reviews Peter Temple's White Dog
Gay Bilson reviews Angela Heuzenroeder and Catherine Murphy

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February 2003

Tim Rowse on Keith Windschutte's
The Fabrication of Aboriginal History
Gideon Haigh reviews Lindie Clark's Finding a Common Interest
Ilana Snyder reviews Digital Hemlock
Ros Pesman reviews Visits Home and In Search of Kings

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December 2002/January 2003

'Our First Book': Clive James
Peter Rose reviews Barry Humphries's My Life As Me
Robert Manne reviews Malcolm Fraser's Common Ground
Delia Falconer reviews Emily Ballou's Father Lands

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