March 2011 no. 329

March 2011 no. 329

News from the Editor's Desk

Chong’s covers

Last month’s cover subject, Paul Kelly, proved immensely popular when we began advertising a new series of portrait prints based on W.H. Chong’s cover images. Each portrait is available exclusively from ABR. The unframed prints – presented ...

The poetry of Dorothy Hewett

Susan Sheridan

A fresh selection of Hewett’s passionate verse

Susan Sheridan

 

Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett
edited by Kate Lilley
UWA Publishing, $29.95 pb, 158 pp, 9781742582696

 

Tony Judt: Ill Fares the Land; and Tony Judt: The Memory Chalet

Bruce Grant

Offerings and jeremiads from the stoic Tony Judt

Bruce Grant

 

Ill Fares the Land
by Tony Judt
Allen Lane, $29.95 pb, 238 pp, 9781846143908

 

Robert Bell: Ballets Russes

Alan R. Dodge

The astonishing legacy of Sergei Diaghilev

Alan R. Dodge

 

Ballets Russes: The Art of Costume
by Robert Bell
National Gallery of Australia, $39.95 pb, 264 pp, 9780642541574

 

Also in this issue

'Dr Goldsworthy on Dr Chekhov' by Peter Goldsworthy

Free

Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke (eds): Letters From a Life

Andrew Ford

Grace Moore on the lonely fate of Catherine Dickens

Open Page with Gail Jones

'Self-portrait at Sixty', a new poem by Tony Lintermans

'Dreams and Artefacts', a new poem by Lisa Gorton

'Moonlight Sculptures', a new poem by Stephen Edgar

'Openings', a new poem by Judith Bishop

'Humility, a new poem by Alex Skovron

'This Version of Love' a poem by Dorothy Hewett

Robin Prior reviews 'Churchill’s Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made' by Richard Toye

Patrick Wilcken: Claude Lévi-Strauss

Grant Evans

Christopher Booker: The Real Global Warming Disaster

Timothy Roberts

Joel Deane reviews 'The Art of Great Speeches and Why We Remember Them' by Dennis Glover

Anthony Moran reviews 'Disconnected' by Andrew Leigh

Silvio Pons and Robert Service (eds): A Dictionary of 20th Century Communism

Stuart Macintyre

Shaun Prescott reviews 'Black Glass' by Meg Mundell

Don Anderson reviews 'The Simple Death' by Michael Duffy

Emma Ashmere reviews 'The Raven's Heart' by Jesse Blackadder

Anthony Lynch reviews 'This Too Shall Pass' by S.J. Finn

Cheryl Jorgensen reviews 'Bright and Distant Shores' by Dominic Smith

Jake Wilson reviews 'Wake in Fright' by Tina Kaufman

Jake Wilson

Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis (eds): The Classical Tradition

Christopher Allen

Barry J. Blake: Secret Language

Bruce Moore

Claire Roberts: Friendship in Art

Peter Hill

'Half a house on a truck near T——', a new story by Wayne Macauley

David McCooey reviews 'A Cool and Shaded Heart' and 'Ethical Investigations' by Noel Rowe

Jonathan E. Brockopp (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad

Irfan Ahmad

Lydia Wevers: Reading on the Farm

Deirdre Coleman

Luke Morgan reviews 'The Garden of Ideas: Four Centuries of Australian Style' by Richard Aitken

Rebecca Starford (ed.): Kill Your Darlings, No. 4

Tim Brewer

James Ley reviews 'Heat: 24'

Anne M. Scott (ed.): Parergon, Vol. 26, No. 2; and Vanessa Smith and Richard Yeo (eds): Parergon, Vol. 27, No. 1

Gregory Kratzmann

Warren Bonett (ed.): The Australian Book of Atheism

Timothy Roberts

David Ellis (ed.): Into the Light

John Thompson

Stephanie Owen Reeder reviews eleven new children's picture books

Anna Ryan-Punch reviews 'Six' by Karen Tayleur