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Past issues 2006

December 2006/January 2007

Peter Rose on Clive James: North Face of Soho

Kabita Dhara on Adrian Hyland: Diamond Dove and Sandy McCutcheon: The Cobbler's Apprentice

Graeme Turner on Chris Masters: Jonestown

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November 2006

The ABR/La Trobe Annual Lecture by Professor Ian Donaldson:
Matters of Life and Death: The Return of Biography

Geoffrey Blainey on Niall Ferguson's The War of the World

Louise Swinn on Emily Maguire's The Gospel According to Luke
and Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls

Anna Goldsworthy on Alice Pung's Unpolished Gem

Kerryn Goldsworthy on The Gods of Freud

October 2006

Anna Goldsworthy on Alice Garner's The Student Chronicles

Kerryn Goldsworthy on Andrew McGahan's Underground

David McCooey on John Kinsela's Fast Loose Beginnings

Tamas Pataki on Antony Loewenstein's My Israel Question

James Ley on David Malouf's Every Move You Make

John Jenkins on Shelton Lea's Nebuchadnezzar and Mal McKimmie's Poetiliptic

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September 2006

Morag Fraser on Ken Inglis: The ABC of Controversy

Peter Rose on Creme de la Phlegm: The Assassin in the Orchard

Nick Prescott on film: Candy, Em 4 Jay and Little Fish

Delia Falconer on Cate Kennedy's Dark Roots

Gail Jones on After Blanchot

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August 2006

Jonathan Pearlman on the Middle East: A Beautiful Shoah

Gideon Haigh on Rupert Murdoch's The Times: The Fissured Mogul

Glyn Davis: When Research is Not Enough

Neal Blewett: 'We are all little Johnnies now'

Stephanie Owen Reeder on Children's Picture Books: The Art of Communication

Kate Middleton poem: Whistler's Boatman

Bridget Griffen-Foley's Media Column: Ming's Legacy

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June/July 2006
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Peter Steele's essay: Vincent Buckley: Aspects of the Imagination

Anthony Cordingley's essay: Waiting on Beckett

Lisa Gorton on Les Murray: Boetias of the Mind

Thuy On on Tara June Winch's Swallow the Air

Geordie Williamson: GBS and Decency

Pam Macintyre on Young Adult Fiction: A Splash of Genres

Peter Rose's poem: Lord Jim

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May 2006


David McCooey's essay: Going Public: A Decade of Australian Autobiography

Alan Atkinson on John Hirst's Sense and Nonsense in Australian History

Colin Nettelbeck on Carmen Callil's Bad Faith

Ilana Snyder on Richard Florida's The Flight of the Creative Class

 

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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