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June 2011, no. 332
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Letters
Letters to the Editor - June 2011
by
Hidden Author
Features
'The paradoxical neglect of Australian art abroad' by Patrick McCaughey
by
Patrick McCaughey
Features
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
by Alexandra Harris
by
Frances Spalding
Features
Good Living Street: A Personal History
by David Walker
by
Evelyn Juers
Features
Gideon Haigh reviews 'Sideshow: Dumbing down democracy' by Lindsay Tanner
by
Gideon Haigh
Features
Patrick Allington questions ‘What is Australia, anyway?’
by
Patrick Allington
Features
Gerard Vaughan reviews 'A History of the World in 100 Objects' by Neil MacGregor
by
Gerard Vaughan
Features
Sophie Cunningham reviews 'Caleb's Crossing' by Geraldine Brooks
by
Sophie Cunningham
Open Page
Open Page with Rodney Hall
by
Australian Book Review
Art
Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed
edited by Ruth Pullin
by
Mary Eagle
Art
Percy Lindsay: Artist & Bohemian
by Silas Clifford-Smith
by
Christopher Menz
Art
Art, Love and Life: Ethel Carrick and E. Phillips Fox
by Angela Goddard
by
Anne Gray
Photography
Look: Contemporary Photography Since 1980
by Anne Marsh
by
Helen Ennis
Art
Lines for Birds: Poems and Paintings
by Barry Hill and John Wolseley
by
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Art
Patricia Piccinini: Once Upon a Time ...
by Jane Messenger
by
Wendy Walker
Art
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A hidden inheritance
by Edmund de Waal
by
Angus Trumble
Art
The Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 1984–2008: Celebrating 25 Years
by Sue Bassett
by
John Kean
Art
Notebooks
by Betty Churcher
by
Alan R. Dodge
Fiction
Chris Flynn reviews 'You Lose These + Other Stories' by Goldie Goldbloom
by
Chris Flynn
Fiction
Judith Armstrong reviews 'Shooting the Fox' by Marion Halligan:
by
Judith Armstrong
Fiction
Rhyll Mcmaster reviews 'The Secret Fate of Mary Watson' by Judy Johnson
by
Rhyll McMaster
Fiction
Carmel Bird reviews 'The Roving Party' by Rohan Wilson:
by
Carmel Bird
Fiction
Kate Holden reviews 'I Hate Martin Amis Et Al.' by Peter Barry
by
Kate Holden
Fiction
Adam Rivett reviews 'The Life' by Malcolm Knox
by
Adam Rivett
Fiction
Angela Meyer reviews 'Faces in the Clouds' by Matt Nable
by
Angela Meyer
Commentary
It should be so, it must be so
by
Daniel Thomas
Film
Here I Am
by
Jake Wilson
International Studies
Alison Broinowski reviews 'The Decline and Fall of the American Republic' by Bruce Ackerman
by
Alison Broinowski
Biography
A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers
by Michael Holroyd
by
Ian Britain
Journalism
Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting
by Fay Anderson and Richard Trembath
by
Jill Jolliffe
Military History
Elisabeth Holdsworth reviews 'All Day Long the Noise of Battle' by Gerard Windsor
by
Elisabeth Holdsworth
Ornithology
The Business of Nature: John Gould and Australia
by Roslyn Russell
by
John Thompson
Picture Books
Stephanie Owen Reeder reviews eight new picture books
by
Stephanie Owen Reeder
Poem
'The Sublime', a new poem by Kevin Brophy
by
Kevin Brophy
Advances
News from the Editor's Desk
by
Hidden Author
Young Adult Fiction
Margot McGovern reviews 'Thyla' by Kate Gordon
by
Margot McGovern
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