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December 2007–January 2008, no. 297

Full Contents

The Complete Stories by David Malouf

Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm

The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics edited by Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts

The Best Australian Stories 2007 edited by Robert Drewe

The Best Australian Poems 2007 edited by Peter Rose & The Best Australian Poetry 2007 edited by John Tranter

Books of the Year 2007

Courage by Maria Tumarkin

Like Us: How arrogance is dividing Islam and the West by Waleed Aly

The Memory Room by Christopher Koch

Sir Ronald Wilson: A matter of conscience by Antonio Buti

The Low Road by Chris Womersley

'The Wattle Bird', a poem by Dorothy Porter

The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore: Volume 2, 1930–1962 edited by Jennifer Strauss

Jane Campion by Kathleen McHugh

Letters to the Editor

It’s Raining in Wollongong