PAST ISSUES

April 2006

James Ley's essay on Andrew McGahan

Karen Lamb on Peter Carey's Theft

Elizabeth Webby on Fabulating Beauty

Richard King on Clive James' The Meaning of Recognition

Ann McGrath The Invention of Terra Nullius

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March 2006

Luke Morgan's essay: Australian Art Criticism and Its Discontents

Caroline Jordan on The World of Thea Proctor

Robert Phiddian on James Bradley's The Resurrectionist

Denise O'Dea reviews Marion Halligan's The Apricot Colonel

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February 2006

Tamas Pataki's essay: Against Religion

Greg Kratzmann on Chris Wallace-Crabbe's The Universe Looks Down and Read It Again

Colin Nettelbeck reviews Hazley Rowley's Tête-à-Tête

Heather Neilson on Dennis Altman's Gore Vidal's America

Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews Gail Jones's Dreams of Speaking

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December 2005-January 2006

Daniel Flitton reviews three books on international affairs

Robyn Eckersley reviews The Weather Makers and Living in the Hothouse

Aviva Tuffield reviews Brenda Walker's The Wing of Night

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November 2005

Neal Blewett reviews The Latham Diaries

James Bradley review's Prochownik's Dream

Dirk Moses reviews Telling the Truth about Aboriginal History

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October 2005

Ian Britain on The Diaries of Donald Friend, vol. 3

James Ley on J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man

John Kinsella's essay 'On Parrotology'

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September 2005

Dennis Altman reviews The Question of Zion

David McCooey reviews Craig Sherborne's Hoi Polloi

Kate McFadyen reviews Cate Kennedy's Sing, and Don't Cry

Cathy Sherry reviews Anne Manne's Motherhood

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August 2005

Pamela Bone reviews Anne O'Brien's God's Willing Workers

Judith Brett on Howard's Second and Third Governments

Colin Golvan: Copyright, Guns and Money

Mary Eagle's Gallery Notes: Grace Cossington Smith

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June-July 2005

Barry Hill reviews Robert Manne's Left, Right, Left

Richard Freadman reviews The Moral of the Story

Kerryn Goldsworthy on Helen Reddy and Robyn Archer

Gallery Notes: Luke Morgan on Bill Henson

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May 2005

Richard Johnstone's essay on Blogging

Sarah Thomas's review of Degenerates and Perverts

Marilyn Lake reviews Genocide and Settler Society

Theatre Notes: The Ham Funeral

Gallery Notes: Collecting the British

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April 2005

James Ley's essay: The tyranny of the literal

Nicholas Jose reviews Frontier Justice by Tony Roberts

Barry Smith's essay on the History Wars and aboriginal health

Brenda Niall reviews March by Geraldine Brooks

Anna Goldsworthy reviews Farewell my Ovaries by Wendy Harmer

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March 2005

Angus Trumble reviews The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Julie Robinson reviews Intersections by Helen Ennis

Lisa Gorton reviews Sonya Hartnett's Surrender

Elizabeth Braithwaite reviews The Quentaris Chronicles:
Angel Fever and Treasure Hunters of Quentaris, Drowned Wednesday and Tremada

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February 2005

Frederick Ludowyk reviews Peter Bowler, Julian Burnside, Kate Burridge
Richard Glover and Don Watson

Philip Selth reviews A Win and a Prayer and Run, Johnny, Run

Tim Bonyhady reviews Papunya: A Place Made after the Story

Peter Goldsworthy's essay 'Famous Battles in the War between Words and Music:
From Monteverdi to Puff Daddy'

Gail Jones reviews The Best Australian Stories 2004

The winners of the ABR 2004 Reviewing Competition

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December 2004 - January 2005

Neal Blewett reviews Mark Latham and Latham's World

Delia Falconer reviews Robert Dessaix's The Best Australian Essays 2004

Peter Rose's essay 'The Sound and the Fury: Uneasy Times for Hacks and Critics'

Paul de Serville reviews Gardenesque and The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens

Richard Johnstone reviews The Cook's Companion and Plenty

Martin Duwell reviews Peter Porter's Afterburner

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November 2004

Ian Britain reviews Susan Kurosawa's Coronation Talkies

Inga Clendinnen's Diary The Gecko in the Machine

Lisa Gorton reviews Natalie Andrew's Clara's Witch and Gaylene Perry's Midnight Water

Sarah Thomas reviews Janine Burke's The Heart Garden

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October 2004

James Ley reviews Tim Winton's The Turning

Morag Fraser reviews Trevor Bormann's Traveller's Tales, Jonathon Harley's Lost in Transmission and Denise Leith's Bearing Witness

Shirley Walker reviews Patricia Clarke and Meredith McKinney's The Equal Heart and Mind and Judith Wright's Birds

Richard Walsh reviews Matthew Ricketson's The Best Australian Profiles

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September 2004

Dennis Altman reviews Latham and Abbott and Australian Son: Inside Mark Latham

John Hirst reviews Alan Atkinson's The Europeans in Australia: Volume Two: Democracy

Peter Rose reviews Helen Garner's Joe Cinque's Consolation

Aviva Tuffield reviews Gail Jones' Sixty Lights

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August 2004

Patrick McCaughey reviews Peter Timms' What's Wrong with Contemporary Art?

John Slavin's interview Shirley Hazzard in Naples

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June/July 2004

Alison Broinowski reviews Against all Enemies and Plan of Attack

Raimond Gaita reviews Peter Singer's The President of Good and Evil

Bridget Griffen-Foley's media column Déjà Vu

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May 2004

LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY
Where Are We in the War on Terrorism? by Gareth Evans

Peter Rose reviews Philip Jones: Art & Life
Gail Jones reviews Peter Goldsworthy: The List of All Answers

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April 2004

Making the Angels Pay

Simon Marginson's La Trobe University Essay
'They Make a Desolation and They Call It F.A. Hayek:
Australian Universities on the Brink of the Nelson Reforms'

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March 2004

Dianne Dempsey reviews Elizabeth Stead's The Different World of Fin Starling

Sara Hardy reviews Edna Walling's A Gardener's Log

Christopher Menz reviews India, China, Australia: Trade and Society 1788-1850

Sebastian Smee reviews Irena Zdanowicz and Stephen Coppel's Fred Williams

Neil Blewett reviews Robert Manne's (ed.) The Howard Years

Jill Jolliffe reviews James Dunn's East Timor

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February 2004

Bruce Page reviews Keith Murdoch

David McKnight on Rupert Murdoch and the Culture War

Sylvia Lawson reviews Frank Brennan: Tampering with Asylum
Julian Burnside: From Nothing to Zero
Tom Mann: Desert Sorrow
Spencer Zifcak: Mr Ruddock Goes to Geneva

Michael Desmond GALLERY NOTES

David McCooey on The Imageless World

INDEX for 2003: Nos 248-257

 

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December 2003/January 2004

Ian Britian reviews Germaine Greer's About the Boy

Julian Burnside reviews Don Watson's Death Sentence

Peter Rose reviews Richard Freadman's Shadow of Doubt

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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

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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