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Past issues 2001

November 2001

Pat Jalland: Death in Australia
Diary by Peter Goldsworthy
Chopping into Literature: The Writings of Mark Brandon Read -- Simon Caterson
Michael Shmith reviews Zoe Caldwell's I will Be Cleopatra
Brian McFarlane reviews Tim Winton's Dirt Music

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October 2001

Barry Smith: H.G. Wells in Australia
Commentary by Julian Burnside on The Tampa Affair
Evelyn Juers reviews Helen Garner's The Feel of Steel
Don Anderson reviews Clive James's Essay Collections
Poems by Clive James
Dick Freadman reviews Rose Boys

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September 2001

Peter Craven: Shakespeare in Australia
Jeffrey Tate's Diary
Helen Thomson reviews Tim Robertson's The Pram Factory
Andrew Riemer on 'Who's Afraid of Richard Wagner?'
Patrick Wolfe reviews Roger Sandall's The Culture Cult
John Button reviews Shaun Carney's Peter Costello

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August 2001

Peter Porter: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath — A Bystander's Recollections
Peter Craven on Robert Dessaix's Corfu
Peter Rose on Jacqueline Kent's A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis
Poems by Clive James and R.A. Simpson
Guy Rundle on Faking Literature
Gideon Haigh reviews two new books on Rupert Murdoch

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July 2001

Raimond Gaita: Why the Impatience?
Genocide, 'Ideology' and Practical Reconciliation
Matthew Ricketson on Media
Kerryn Goldsworthy on Charmian Clift
Delia Falconer's Festival Days
Michael Kirby on Religion and Culture in Asia Pacific
New poems by J.S. Harry and Peter Steele

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June 2001

James Griffin's Essay: A Big Lie --
Manning Clark, Frank Hardy and 'Fictitious' History
Peter Beilharz on Who's Who 2001
Allan Patience on Economic Rationalism
Arabella Edge's Diary
Penelope Mathew on Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Carmel Bird and Dianne Dempsey on fiction

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May 2001

David McCooey's Essay: Infidelity -- The Monkey's Mask
in Poetry and Film
Kerryn Goldsworthy on Other People's Words
Ros Pesman on Margaret Whitlam's My Other World
Patrick McCaughey on Australian Art

Rhys Jones on Tim Flannery
Morag Fraser on Robert Manne's In Denial

 

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April 2001

Ian Britain's Essay: The Talented Mr Conrad
Nicholas Jose on John Shaw Nielson
John Button on A Witness to History
Michael McGirr's Letter from Gunning
Patricia Harewood's Diary
Robert Manne on Paul Kelly's 100 Years
David McCooey on The Lovemakers

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February/March 2001

John Hirst's Essay: Aborigines and Migrants --
An Essay on Multicultural Australia
George Seddon on Geoffrey Blainey's A Short History of the World
Geoffrey Bolton on A Sentimental Nation
Peter Timms on The Colonial Earth
Peter Craven on Murray Bail's Camouflage
Brenda Niall on The Fog Garden
Morag Fraser reviews Simon Marginson & Mark Considine's
The Enterprise University: Power, Governance and Reinvention in Australia

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December 2000/January 2001


Henry Reynolds on Broken Circles
Helen Garner on Barry Oakley's diaries
Hugh Stretton on True Ideal Of Alexis de Tocqueville
John Button on Australian Prime Ministers
Peter Rose on The Best Australian Essays 2000
Janine Burke on Arthur Boyd: Art & Life

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