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November 2001
Issue No. 236   A$6.95 (incl.GST)

C O N T E N T S

Feature

LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY

Pat Jalland: Death and Burial in the Bush


EDITORIAL
 

PHOTOGRAPHY

Isobel Crombie
 

CONTRIBUTORS

 
LETTERS Peter Beilharz, Laurie Hergenhan, Val Wake, Meg Tasker,
Patrick Wolfe, Frances Hemming, Mark Rubbo
 

DIARY

Peter Goldsworthy
 
LETTERS

Gregory Kratzmann (ed.) A Steady Storm of Correspondence

Brenda Niall

 
AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Alison Alexander: A Wealth of Women

Doris Brett: Eating the Underworld  
Shirley Walker: Roundabout at Bangalow Joy Hooton

Zoë Caldwell: I Will Be Cleopatra

Michael Shmith
 

BIOGRAPHY

Andrew Riemer: Hughes  

Michael Warby: Ellis Unpulped

Peter Beilharz
Linda Jaivin: The Monkey and the Dragon Alison Broinowski

Terri-Ann White: Finding Theodore and Brina

Arnold Zable
 

ESSAY

Chopping into Literature:
The Writings of Mark Brandon Read
Simon Caterson
 
FICTION Geraldine Brooks: Year of Wonders Stephanie Trigg
Tim Winton: Dirt Music Brian McFarlane
  Venero Armanno: The Volcano Kerryn Goldsworthy
Stephen Carroll: The Art of the Engine Driver

 

Malcolm Knox: Summerland

Geordie Williamson

Louis Nowra: Abaza Bronwyn Rivers

Tom Gilling: Miles McGinty

James Bradley
Igor Gelbach: Confessions of a Clay Man Judith Armstrong

 

Gina Mercer: Parachute Silk Nicolette Stasko

 

Kathleen Stewart: The Black Butterfly David Matthews
 
REISSUES Kenneth Cook: Wake in Fright  

Kerryn Higgs: All That False Instruction

Boris Frankel
Margaret Scott: In the Shadows

Madeleine Byrne

Janette Turner Hospital: Collected Stories

Delys Bird

 

POLITICS David Love: Straw Polls, Paper Money John M. Legge

Jill Jolliffe: Cover-Up

John Martinkus
 
HISTORY Marshall Barr: Surgery, Sand and Saigon Tea

 

Terry O'Farrell: Behind Enemy Lines Hugh Dillon

 

Diane Armstrong: The Voyage of Their Life Doris Brett
 

POEM

Jennifer Compton
 

MEDIA

Peter Barnett: Foreign Correspondence

 

 

Jeff McMullen: A Life of Extremes Gideon Haigh
 

GALLERY NOTES

Patrick McCaughey  
 
POETRY

Peter Boyle: What the Painter Saw in Our Faces

 
Adrian Caesar: The June Fireworks David Gilbey
New Poets 8 Richard King
 

FESTIVAL DAYS

Juno Gemes
 
CHILDREN'S BOOKS Alan Brown, illus. Kim Michelle Toft: Turtle's Song
Leigh Hobbs: Horrible Harriet

F.N. Mojo, Justin Mojo, illus. Peter Viska: Three Kinds of Scared

 
Rick Searle, illus. Bronwyn Searle: Follow Me Moira Robinson
Ian Bone: Killer Plot
Gary Crew: Cruel Nest
Kerry Greenwood: The Three-Pronged Dagger  
Ruth Starke: Dead Red Peter Nicholls
 
TWENTY YEARS ON
 
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW NOVEMBER 2001