ADVANCES

The latest literary news from the Editor's desk ...

FEATURES

 The assassination of Kevin Rudd – Neal Blewett

Mythologising Hawke – Bruce Grant

The woman on the $5 note – Helen Thomson

False promise – Dennis Altman

Bonobo bliss – Tony Wheeler

 Remembering Jessica Anderson – Susan Sheridan

Urgent times – John Bryson

Open Page – Blanche d’Alpuget

LETTERS

 Susan Lever, Jill Roe, Peter Rose

Victor Marsh, Amanda Lohrey, Sarah Kanowski

AUSTRALIAN HISTORY

John Hirst: Looking for Australia – Alan Frost

Tony Moore: Death or Liberty – Peter Stanley

SEX

Sam Everingham: Madam Lash – Jay Daniel Thompson

HISTORY

Emma Christopher: A Merciless Place – Norman Etherington

Shane White et al.: Playing the Numbers – David Goodman

MEMOIRS

Sharyn Killens and Lindsay Lewis: The Inconvenient Child – Kate Holden

TRAVEL

A.J. Mackinnon: The Well at the World’s End – Michael McGirr

FILM

Andrew Frost: The Boys – Mark Gomes

FICTION

Herz Bergner: Between Sky and Sea – Richard Freadman

Ashley Hay: The Body in the Clouds – Don Anderson

Chris Womersley: Bereft – Carmel Bird

Simone Lazaroo: Sustenance – Thuy On

Wayne Ashton: Equator – Cheryl Jorgensen

Sarah Hopkins: Speak to Me – Estelle Tang

Jeremy Chambers: The Vintage and the Gleaning – Laurie Steed

DANCE

Alan Brissenden and Keith Glennon: Australia Dances – David Tissiman

POEMS

Peter Rose

Stephen Edgar

AUDIO

Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier in America

Madeleine St John: The Women in Black

Peter Temple: Truth – Brian McFarlane

SOCIETY

Brendan Gleeson: Lifeboat Cities

Paul Mees: Transport for Suburbia – Peter Mares

Ian Lowe: A Voice of Reason – Susan Currie

PHILOSOPHY

Martha C. Nussbaum: Not for Profit – Stuart Macintyre

MILITARY HISTORY

Martin Crotty and Marina Larsson (eds): Anzac Legacies – Alistair Thomson

LITERARY STUDIES

Chester Eagle: The Well in the Shadow – Christina Hill

BIOGRAPHY

Renate Howe (ed.): The Master – John Rickard

ESSAYS

Robyn Archer: Detritus – Alison Broinowski

JOURNALS

Leigh Dale (ed.): Australian Literary Studies – Adam Gall

Ioana Petrescu (ed.): Transnational Literature – Patrick Allington

David Brooks and Elizabeth McMahon (eds): Southerly – Simon West

POETRY

Ron Pretty: Postcards from the Centre – David McCooey

Katherine Gallagher: Carnival Edge – Susan Lever

Kate Llewellyn: Poets and Perspectives – Bronwyn Lea

CHILDREN’S FICTION

 Sonya Hartnett: The Midnight Zoo, Isobelle Carmody: The Red Wind – Ruth Starke