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November 2002
Issue No. 246   A$7.50 (incl.GST)

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LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY

'Homer and the Holocaust'

Andrea Goldsmith
 

ADVANCES

   
 

CONTRIBUTORS

   
 
LETTERS Filton Hebbard, Noni Durack, Carl Bridge, Molly Bloom, Victoria Chance, Val Wake  
 
MEMOIR Bernard Smith: A Pavane for Another Time Peter Craven

 

Christopher Koch: The Many-Coloured Land Michael McGirr
 

John Bell: The Time of My Life

Brian McFarlane

 

Ian Hansen: The Naked Fish

Peter Steele

John Hanrahan: From Eternity to Here Christopher Bantick
POEMS

R.A. Simpson

 

Craig Sherborne

 

Kate Middleton

 

Clive James

 

MUSIC

James Freud: i am the voice left from drinking

David Nichols
 

Robert Milliken: Lillian Roxon

Gideon Haigh
 

CULTURAL STUDIES

Brett Hutchins: Don Bradman

 

Louis Nowra: Warne's World

Brian Matthews
 

David Coad: Gender Trouble Down Under

 

Robert Reynolds: From Camp to Queer

Graham Willett

 

Susan Hopkins: Girl Heroes Catharine Lumby
 

POLITICS

Ross Fitzgerald: The Federation Mirror

 
Rae Wear: Johannes Bjelke-Peterson Geoffrey Bolton
Ken Booth and Tim Dunne (eds): Worlds in Collision
John Carroll: Terror Tony Coady
Geoffrey Robertson: Crimes Against Humanity Morag Fraser
 

HISTORY

John Connor: The Australian Frontier Wars

Lyndall Ryan

Cassandra Pybus and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart: American Citizens, British Slaves

Donna Merwick

Peter McPhee: The French Revolution 1789-1799  

 

Charles Sowerwine: France since 1870

Vesna Drapac
 
MILITARY HISTORY Peter Dornan: Nicky Barr, an Australian Air Ace

 

Andrew McMillan: Catalina Dreaming

John McCarthy

 

ESSAY

Religion and Justice

Raimond Gaita

 

LETTERS

R.W. Home et al. (eds): Regardfully Yours: Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller

John Thompson

 

ARCHITECTURE

Haig Beck and Jackie Cooper: Glen Murcutt

 

Philip Drew (ed.): Touch This Earth Lightly

Miles Lewis

 

PHOTOGRAPHY

Helen Ennis: Man with a Camera Susan van Wyk

 

GALLERY NOTES

Mary Eagle

 

 

FICTION

Andrea Goldsmith: The Prosperous Thief

Don Anderson
 

Sally Morrison: The Insatiable Desire of Injured Love

Delia Falconer
 

A.L. McCann: The White Body of Evening

Edwina Preston
 

Tracy Ryan: Jazz Tango

Dianne Dempsey
 

POETRY

Anthony Lawrence: Skinned by Light

Brendan Ryan
 
LANGUAGE

Bill Ramson: Lexical Images

Nick Hudson
 

Kate Burridge: Blooming English

  Tore Janson: Speak Bruce Moore
  Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum (eds): The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language Kate Burridge
 
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW NOVEMBER 2002