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Literary Activists: Writer-Intellectuals and Australian Public Life by Brigid Rooney
by Susan Lever •
The Art of Australia, Volume 1: Exploration to Federation by John McDonald
by David Hansen •
The Statue of Liberty: How Australians Can Take Back Their Rights by Geoffrey Robertson
by Patrick Allington •
The Best American Essays 2008 edited by Adam Gopnik & The Best Australian Essays 2008 edited by David Marr
by Gay Bilson •
The past is in Scotland
Dear Editor,
Christina Hill’s review of Peter Goldsworthy’s latest novel, Everything I Knew (November 2008), seems sure-footed in both its negative assessment of an ‘overwrought, undisciplined’ work and its appreciation of the novel’s compositional play, both intricate and subversive, with L.P. Hartley’s The Go-Between. It makes no mention, however, of the novel’s pointed intrigue with lyricism.
... (read more)The Wisdom of Birds: An illustrated history of ornithology by Tim Birkhead
by Peter Menkhorst •