Australian Book Review - Latest Issue
JULY–AUGUST 2010, NO. 323
The travails of Bill Clinton
Morag Fraser savours two new accounts of Bill Clinton’s fraught presidency of the United States, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President by Taylor Branch and The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr by Ken Gormley.
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‘Courage in your own’
Jill Jolliffe admires Shirley Shackleton’s conviction in The Circle of Silence, a personal telling of the ‘Balibo Five’ killings, while identifying partisan flaws in her testimony.
Furore in Israel
Jonathan Pearlman contextualises and dissects the political ‘haze and chaff’ that surrounds Israel’s recent attack on the so-called ‘Freedom Flotilla’.
Vodka fumes
Kate Holden finds comedian Lily Bragge’s candid memoir My Dirty Shiny Life a ‘riveting but disorientating read’.
Also in July–August
Open Page with Lisa Gorton
Brian McFarlane contra Louis Nowra
Sarah Kanowski on Christopher Isherwood
Ben Eltham on John Birmingham
Brenda Niall on children’s literature
David Hansen on Robert Dowling
Melinda Harvey on Michelle Lovric
Plus
Announcing the ABR Patrons’ Fellowship
An elegy for Peter Porter by Clive James
