February 2009, no. 308

Welcome to the February 2009 issue of Australian Book Review.
Full Contents
Essays
The Best American Essays 2008 edited by Adam Gopnik & The Best Australian Essays 2008 edited by David Marr
by Gay Bilson
Military History
The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (Second Edition) edited by Peter Dennis et al.
by David Horner
Art
Encounters with Australian Modern Art by Christopher Heathcote, Patrick McCaughey and Sarah Thomas
Politics
America and the World: Conversations on the future of American foreign policy by Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft, moderated by David Ignatius
by Hugh White
Poetry
To Sculpt The Moment: Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2008 edited by Hunter Writers’ Centre
History
The Collectors Of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru scientists into whitemen by Warwick Anderson
Media
The SBS Story: The challenge of cultural diversity by Ien Ang, Gay Hawkins and Lamia Dabboussy
by Dean Biron
Ornithology
The Wisdom of Birds: An illustrated history of ornithology by Tim Birkhead
Lemniscate by Gaynor McGrath
by Jo Case
Letter collection
Nobody’s Valentine: Letters in the life of Valentine Alexa Leeper 1900–2001 by Marion Poynter
by John Rickard
Echo Chamber by Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Joseph N. Cappella & Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press by Michael Schudson
by Rod Tiffen
Society
In the Vernacular: A generation of Australian culture and controversy by Stuart Cunningham
by Jake Wilson
Australian History
Je Suis Australienne: Remarkable women in France, 1880–1945 by Rosemary Lancaster
by Ros Pesman