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March 2012, no. 339
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Open Page
Open Page with Peter Conrad
by
Australian Book Review
Literary Studies
Charles Dickens
by Claire Tomalin
&
Becoming Dickens
by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
by
Evelyn Juers
Poem
'Oscillations', a new poem by Toby Fitch
by
Toby Fitch
Poem
'After Devotion', a new poem by Annamaria Weldon
by
Annamaria Weldon
Poem
'Provenance', a new poem by Gareth Robinson
by
Gareth Robinson
Advances
News from the Editor's Desk
by
Hidden Author
Letters
Letters to the Editor – March 2012
by
Hidden Author
Features
'Letter from Jaipur: Free speech and sectarian tensions at the Jaipur Festival' by Claudia Hyles
by
Claudia Hyles
Theatre
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
by
John Rickard
Commentary
Sonya Hartnett revisits 'A Difficult Young Man' by Martin Boyd
by
Sonya Hartnett
Features
The Age of Movies: Selected writings of Pauline Kael
edited by Sanford Schwartz
by
Philippa Hawker
Poetry
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
edited by Rita Dove
by
Paul Kane
Anthology
The Penguin Book of Australian Bush Writing edited by
edited by John Ross
by
Susan K. Martin
Fiction
Alison Broinowski reviews '1Q84' by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel
by
Alison Broinowski
Fiction
Adam Rivett reviews 'A Tiger in Eden' by Chris Flynn
by
Adam Rivett
Fiction
Sky Kirkham reviews 'Floundering' by Romy Ash
by
Sky Kirkham
Fiction
Francesca Sasnaitis reviews 'Cooking the Books' by Kerry Greenwood
by
Francesca Sasnaitis
Film
Carnage
by
Jake Wilson
Art
Permanent Revolution: Mike Brown and the Australian avant-garde1953–97
by Richard Haese
by
Peter Hill
Music
Women of Note: The rise of Australian women composers
by Rosalind Appleby
by
Jillian Graham
Memoir
Not Drowning, Reading
by Andrew Relph
by
Gillian Dooley
Short Story
'Three sisters', a new story by Maria Takolander
by
Maria Takolander
Essay Collection
As I Was Saying: A collection of musings
by Robert Dessaix
by
Jane Goodall
Language
'Citizen lexicography: Creating a ‘Word Zoo’ in Canberra' by Sarah Ogilvie
by
Sarah Ogilvie
Letters
We Talked of Other Things: The life and letters of Arthur Wheen 1897–1971
edited by Tanya Crothers
by
Graeme Powell
Literary Studies
‘The Useless Mouths’ and Other Literary Writings
by Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann (editors)
by
Colin Nettelbeck
Literary Studies
Who is Ozymandias?: And other puzzles in poetry
by John Fuller
by
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Poetry
Outside
by David McCooey
by
Philip Harvey
Australian History
Stuart Macintyre reviews 'Australia and Appeasement' by Christopher Waters
by
Stuart Macintyre
Science and Technology
Survival of the Beautiful: Art, science, and evolution
by David Rothenberg
by
Ian Gibbins
Journal
Granta 117: Horror
edited by John Freeman
by
Mieke Chew
Audio Book
The Narrative of John Smith
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Lindsay (reader)
by
Brian McFarlane
Travel
Riding the Trains in Japan: Travels in the sacred and supermodern East
by Patrick Holland
by
William Heyward
Graphic Novel
Sensitive Creatures
by Mandy Ord
by
Ronnie Scott
Features
Joel Deane: David McKnight's depiction of Rupert Murdoch
by
Joel Deane
Poem
'After Reading Henry James’s "The Awkward Age"', a new poem by Kate Middleton
by
Kate Middleton
Poem
'Beautiful Mother', a new poem by Michael Farrell
by
Michael Farrell
Poem
'Bayside Suburban', a new poem by Anne Elvey
by
Anne Elvey
Memoir
Reaching One Thousand: A Story of love, motherhood and autism
by Rachel Robertson
by
Carmel Bird
Picture Books
Joy Lawn reviews recent picture books
by
Joy Lawn
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