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Past issues 2002

November 2002

'Homer and the Holocaust': Andrea Goldsmith
Peter Craven reviews Bernard Smith's A Pavane for Another Time
Raimond Gaita's essay 'Religion and Justice'
Geoffrey Bolton reviews a biography of Joh Bjelke-Petersen

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October 2002

'The Survival of Poetry': Peter Porter's ABR/La Trobe University Annual Lecture
Joy Hooton on Jan Bassett's The Facing Island
Meredith Curnow reviews Ann Curthoys's Freedom Ride
Margaret Kett reviews a selection of Young Adult Non-Fiction

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September 2002

'September 11: A Symposium'
Joy Hooton on Drusilla Modjeska's Timepieces
Craig Sherborne reviews Cheryl Kernot's and Franca Arena's memoirs
John Martinkus reviews Deliverance

David McCooey reviews new poetry

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August 2002

'Dearest Munx': The Love Letters of Christina Stead
by Margaret Harris
Neal Blewett on Bob Carr's Thoughtlines
Tony Birch on Stan Grant's The Tears of Strangers
Peter Bishop's 'Author! Author!'

John Hirst on Rosemary Neill's White Out

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June/July 2002

Kerryn Goldsworthy's Essay 'After the Academy'
Dorothy Porter's Diary

Dennis Altman's 'Letter from New York

Gideon Haigh reviews Paul Strangio's Keeper of the Faith

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May 2002

David Day reviews Ian Hancock's John Gorton
'Author, Author' by Jose Borghino

'Diary' by Heather Cam

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April 2002

The Art Issue
Jaynie Anderson reviews Janine Burke's Australian Gothic
and Tom Rosenthal's Sidney Nolan
Michael Shmith reviews Brenda Niall's The Boyds
Bronte Adams reviews Chloe Hooper's A Child's Book of True Crime
Martin Krygier — Neighbours: Poles, Jews and the Aboriginal Question

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March 2002

Jim Davidson's La Trobe Essay 'Land of the Long Black Cloud'
John Monfries reviews a biography of Suharto
David Reeve reviews Asian Studies books

Ros Pesman reviews Blue China and To Try Her Fortune in London
Mark Peel on Ruth Wajnryb's The Silence

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February 2002

Richard Freadman's La Trobe Essay: 'Heddy and I: Relational Life-writing in Susan Varga's Heddy and Me'
Peter Goldsworthy reviews Peter Porter's Max Is Missing
Hilary McPhee reviews Peter Craven's The Best Australian Stories
John Rickard on Guy Rundle's and Don Watson's Quarterly Essays
Ilana Snyder reviews Language and the Internet

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December 2001/January 2002

Best Books of 2001
Best Children's Books of 2001
Diary by Jill Kitson
Don Anderson reviews Peter Craven's The Best Australian Essays 2001
Neal Blewett reviews Mungo

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