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September 2001, no. 234

September 2001, no. 234

Welcome to the September 2001 issue of Australian Book Review.

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Opera

Who’s Afraid of Richard Wagner?

by Andrew Riemer
Politics

Peter Costello: The new liberal by Shaun Carney

by John Button

By and Large by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

by Martin Duwell
Memoir

Love this Life: Lyrics, 1978–2001 by Neil Finn

by Shaun Carney
Australian History

Making the Australian Male: Middle-class masculinity 1870–1920 by Martin Crotty

by John Rickard
Law

Songs without Music: Aesthetic dimensions of law and justice by Desmond Manderson

by Michael Kirby
Poetry

Collected Poems, 1970–1998 by John Forbes

by Ivor Indyk
Memoir

The Singing Elms: The autobiography of Lauris Elms by Lauris Elms

by Alastair Jackson
Fiction

Adi Wimmer reviews 'An Innocent Gentleman' by Elizabeth Jolley

by Adi Wimmer
Biography

The Solitary Watcher: Rick Amor and his art by Gary Catalano

by Bernard Smith
Travel

The Picador Book of Journeys edited by Robyn Davidson

by Nicola Walker
Art

Gallery Notes by Patrick McCaughey

by Patrick McCaughey
Advances

'Editorial' by Peter Rose

by Peter Rose
Literary Studies

Shakespeare in Australia

by Peter Craven
Poetry

Other Worlds: Poems 1997–2001 by Dorothy Porter

by Peter Minter
Australian History

Looking for Leadership: Australia in the Howard Years by Donald Horne

by Guy Rundle
Anthropology

The Culture Cult: Designer tribalism and other essays by Roger Sandall

by Patrick Wolfe
Commentary

Author! Author!

by José Borghino
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