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Destined to Live: One woman's war, life, loves remembered by Sabina Wolanski (with Diana Bagnall)
by Yossi Klein •
Letters to the Tremulous Hand by Elizabeth Campbell & Man Wolf Man by L.K. Holt
by Maria Takolander •
The Secret War: A true history of Queensland's Native Police by Jonathan Richards
by Russell McGregor •
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The true cost of the Iraq Conflict by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes
by Hugh White •
Writing Heritage: The depiction of Indigenous heritage in European-Australian writing by Michael Davis
by Maria Nugent •
communication / community / commune / communion / common : mingle together as one
Let us begin with two remarkable observations:
1. Apes cannot speak
2. Apes cannot play a piano
Why should this be the case? After all, great apes such as chimpanzees and gorillas are our closest living relatives, and share most of our genetic heritage. They have well-formed hands that they can use to manipulate their environment. Their brain is more like ours in its structure and organisation than that of any other animal; from it they generate some disturbingly familiar behavioural traits.
... (read more)Most editors look forwards, not back. We have to: there are pages to fill, readers to court, deadlines to meet. But publication of a 300th issue of a literary review invites retrospection, if not undue nostalgia... ... (read more)