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October 1986, no. 85
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Fiction
Dreamhouse
by Kate Grenville
by
Jane Cotter
Commentary
Making the Melbourne Writers’ Festival
by
Colin Talbot
Fiction
Room Service: Comic writings of Frank Moorhouse
by Frank Moorhouse
by
Kate Ahearne
Anthologies
Men On Women
by Kevin Childs
by
Susan Lever
Literary Studies
Strange Country: A study of Randolph Stow
by Anthony J. Hassall
by
Ludmilla Forsyth
Commentary
'Self Portrait' by Vincent Buckley
by
Vincent Buckley
Society
The Public Culture: The Triumph of Industrialism
by Donald Horne
by
Bronwen Levy
Gender and Sexuality
The Force of the Feminine
by Margaret Ann Franklin
by
Delys Bird
Fiction
The Color of the Sky
by Peter Cowan
by
Paul Salzman
Food
The Age Good Food Guide: 7th edition
by Claude Forell and Rita Erlich
by
John Curtain
Fiction
Boss of the Pool
by Robin Klein
&
The Princess Who Hated It
by Robin Klein
by
Mark Macleod
Fiction
Jumbo
by Gabrielle Lord
by
Brenda Walker
Letters
Letters to the Editor
by
Jim Davidson, Barbara Giles, Peter Craven, Michael Heyward, John Tranter
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