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May 2011, no. 331
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Advances
News from the Editor's Desk
by
Hidden Author
Letters
Letters to the Editor - May 2011
by
Hidden Author
Commentary
A bomb in every download
by
Joel Deane
Features
Chris Wallace-Crabbe reviews 'Collected Poems: Francis Webb' edited by Toby Davidson
by
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Features
Morag Fraser reviews 'A Widow's Story'
by
Morag Fraser
Features
When Horse Became Saw: A Family’s Journey through Autism
by Anthony Macris
by
Jo Case
Features
Colin Golvan: The new electronic order
by
Colin Golvan
Features
Gallipoli: A Short History
by Michael McKernan
&
Pozières: The Anzac Story
by Scott Bennett
by
Robin Prior
Poem
'Legionary Ants', a new poem by Francis Webb
by
Francis Webb
Poem
'Holiday', a new poem by David Mortimer
by
David Mortimer
Environmental Studies
Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve
by Libby Robin, Chris Dickman, and Mandy Martin
by
Kim Mahood
Fiction
Laurie Steed reviews 'The Ottoman Hotel' by Christopher Currie
by
Laurie Steed
Fiction
Melinda Harvey reviews 'Too Close to Home' by Georgia Blain
by
Melinda Harvey
Fiction
Carol Middleton reviews 'The Sparrows of Edward Street' by Elizabeth Stead
by
Carol Middleton
Fiction
Jeffrey Poacher reviews 'The End of Longing' by Ian Reid
by
Jeffrey Poacher
Fiction
Gillian Dooley reviews 'Love in the Years of Lunacy' by Mandy Sayer
by
Gillian Dooley
Fiction
Thuy On reviews 'The Voyagers' by Mardi McConnochie
by
Thuy On
Fiction
Jay Daniel Thompson reviews 'The Indignities' by Graeme Aitken
by
Jay Daniel Thompson
Fiction
Angela Meyer reviews 'The Kid on the Karaoke Stage and Other Stories' edited by Georgia Richter
by
Angela Meyer
Fiction
Shaun Prescott reviews 'The Crossing' by B. Michael Radburn
by
Shaun Prescott
Anthology
David McCooey reviews '100 Australian Poems of Love and Loss' edited by Jamie Grant
by
David McCooey
Children's Fiction
Thuy On reviews 'The Golden Day' by Ursula Dubosarsky
by
Thuy On
Travel
A Food Lover’s Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
by Dee Nolan (photography by Earl Carter)
by
Paul Genoni
Film
The Tempest
by
Brian McFarlane
Film
Ina Bertrand reviews 'Australian Documentary: History, Practices, Genres' by Trish FitzSimons, Pat Laughren, and Dugald Williamson
by
Ina Bertrand
Music
The New Percy Grainger Companion
edited by Penelope Thwaites
by
David Pear
Literary Studies
Joseph Wiesenfarth reviews 'Rewriting History: Peter Carey’s Fictional Biography of Australia' by Andreas Gaile
by
Joseph Wiesenfarth
French Studies
Typhus
by Jean-Paul Sartre (translated by Chris Turner)
&
Critical Essays
by Jean-Paul Sartre (translated by Chris Turner)
by
Colin Nettelbeck
Theatre
Finishing the Hat
by Stephen Sondheim
&
Sondheim on Music
by Mark Eden Horowitz
by
Michael Morley
Military History
Stephen Mansfield reviews 'Crack Hardy' by Stephen Dando-Collins
by
Stephen Mansfield
Society
Gaining a Sense of Self
by Karen Laura-Lee Wilson
by
Rachel Robertson
Young Adult Fiction
Benjamin Chandler reviews 'Yellowcake' by Margo Lanagan and 'The Wilful Eye' edited by Isobelle Carmody and Nan McNab
by
Benjamin Chandler
Features
2011 Calibre Prize (Winner): The Death of the Writer
by
Dean Biron
Open Page
Open Page with Geraldine Brooks
by
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