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June 2012, no. 342
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Advances
News from the Editor's Desk
by
Hidden Author
Essay Collection
Lives
by Peter Robb
by
Owen Richardson
Literary Studies
Lusting for London: Australian Expatriate Writers at the Hub of Empire, 1870–1950
by Peter Morton
by
Lucy Sussex
Features
Neal Blewett on 'Thinking the Twentieth Century'
by
Neal Blewett
Features
Miles Franklin loosens up
by
Patrick Allington
Fiction
Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel
by
Peter Rose
Fiction
A History of Books
by Gerald Murnane
by
Adam Rivett
Features
Luminous: Celebrating 50 Years of the Australian Ballet
edited by Kate Scott and Lorelei Vashti
by
Jordan Beth Vincent
Art
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
edited by Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow
by
Patrick McCaughey
Literary Studies
The Novels of Alex Miller: An Introduction
by Robert Dixon
by
Jane Goodall
Essay Collection
Wildlife
by Eliot Weinberger
by
William Heyward
Education
University Unlimited: the Monash Story
by Graeme Davison and Kate Murphy
by
Brenda Niall
Education
What is Education?
by Philip W. Jackson
by
Simon Marginson
Fiction
Phil Brown reviews 'The Daughters of Mars' by Thomas Keneally
by
Phil Brown
Fiction
My Hundred Lovers
by Susan Johnson
by
Wendy Were
Fiction
Eleven Seasons
by Paul D. Carter
by
Amy Baillieu
Fiction
Mary Bennet
by Jennifer Paynter
by
Carol Middleton
Fiction
A Stranger in My Street
by Deborah Burrows
by
Milly Main
Music
Verdi and/or Wagner
by Peter Conrad
&
Great Wagner Conductors
by Jonathan Brown
by
Robert Gibson
Film
Antonioni: Centenary Essays
edited by Laura Rascaroli and John David Rhodes
by
Hamish Ford
Film
Trishna
by
Philippa Hawker
Language
Unsung hero of Australian lexicography
by
Sarah Ogilvie
Open Page
Open Page with John Tranter
by
Hidden Author
Literary Studies
Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare’s Sonnets
by Brian Boyd
by
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Poem
'The Blind Soothsayer', a new poem by Judith Beveridge
by
Judith Beveridge
Poem
'Golden Sigi: An Advertisement', a new poem by Maria Takolander
by
Maria Takolander
Poem
'Maze', a new poem by Peter Steele
by
Peter Steele
Gay Studies
Gay Life Stories
by Robert Aldrich
by
Brian McFarlane
International Studies
Who Killed Hammarskjöld?: The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa: Susan Williams
by
by
Roland Burke
International Studies
The Problem of Harm in World Politics: Theoretical Investigation
by Andrew Linklater
by
NAJ Taylor
Antarctica
Aurora: Douglas Mawson and the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911–14
by Beau Riffenburgh
by
Alasdair McGregor
Religion
A Short History of Christianity
by Geoffrey Blainey
by
Philip Harvey
Indigenous Studies
The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe: A History of Aboriginal Involvement with the World Game
by John Maynard
by
Bernard Whimpress
Gender and Sexuality
Let’s Talk about Sex: Histories of Sexuality in Australia from Federation to the Pill
by Lisa Featherstone
by
Shirleene Robinson
Biography
The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee
by Glyn Parry
by
Wilfrid Prest
Poetry
and then when the
by Dan Disney
by
Kate Middleton
Poetry
The Quadrant Book of Poetry, 2001-2010
edited by Les Murray
by
Anthony Lynch
Poetry
Here, There and Elsewhere
by Vivian Smith
by
Martin Duwell
Poetry
Ladylike
by Kate Lilley
by
Rose Lucas
Children's Fiction
Ruth Starke reviews 'The Children of the King' by Sonya Hartnett, 'The Tunnels of Tarcoola' by Jennifer Walsh, 'Red' by Libby Gleeson: 'Mystery at Riddle Gully' and Jen Banyard
by
Ruth Starke
Young Adult Fiction
One Long Thread
by Belinda Jeffrey
by
Laura Elvery
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