Australian Book Review

May 2011, no. 331

May 2011, no. 331

Full Contents

Advances

News from the Editor's Desk

by Hidden Author

Letters

James Curran, Stuart Macintyre

by Hidden Author

Features

Joel Deane: Julian Assange against the world

Features

Collected Poems: Francis Webb edited by Toby Davidson

by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Features

A WIDOW’S STORY by Joyce Carol Oates

by Morag Fraser

Features

Anthony Macris: When Horse Became Saw

Features

Colin Golvan: The new electronic order

by Colin Golvan

Features

2011 Calibre Prize (Winner): The Death of the Writer

Features

Gallipoli: A Short History by Michael McKernan & Pozières: The Anzac Story by Scott Bennett

Open Page

Open Page with Geraldine Brooks

by Australian Book Review

Poem

'Legionary Ants', a new poem by Francis Webb

by Francis Webb

Poem

'Holiday', a new poem by David Mortimer

by David Mortimer

Environmental Studies

Libby Robin, Chris Dickman, and Mandy Martin (eds): Desert Channels

Fiction

The Ottoman Motel by Christopher Currie

by Laurie Steed

Fiction

Too Close to Home by Georgia Blain

by Melinda Harvey

Fiction

The Sparrows of Edward Street by Elizabeth Stead

by Carol Middleton

Fiction

The End of Longing by Ian Reid

by Jeffrey Poacher

Fiction

Love in the Years of Lunacy by Mandy Sayer

by Gillian Dooley

Fiction

The Voyagers: A Love Story by Mardi McConnochie

Fiction

THE INDIGNITIES by Graeme Aitken

by Jay Daniel Thompson

Fiction

The Kid on the Karaoke Stage and Other Stories edited by Georgia Richter

by Angela Meyer

Fiction

The Crossing by B. Michael Radburn

by Shaun Prescott

Anthology

100 Australian Poems of Love and Loss edited by Jamie Grant

by David McCooey

Children's Fiction

The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky

Travel

Dee Nolan: A Food Lover's Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela

Film

The Tempest

by Brian McFarlane

Film

Australian Documentary: History, Practices, Genres by Trish FitzSimons, Pat Laughren, and Dugald Williamson

by Ina Bertrand

Music

Penelope Thwaites (ed.): The New Percy Grainger Companion

Literary Studies

Rewriting History: Peter Carey’s Fictional Biography of Australia by Andreas Gaile

by Joseph Wiesenfarth

French Studies

Jean-Paul Sartre: Typhus; and Jean-Paul Sartre: Critical Essays

by Colin Nettelbeck

Theatre

Stephen Sondheim: Finishing the Hat; and Mark Eden Horowitz: Sondheim on Music

by Michael Morley

Military History

Crack Hardy: From Gallipoli to Flanders to the Somme, the True Story of Three Australian Brothers at War by Stephen Dando-Collins

by Stephen Mansfield

Society

Karen Laura-Lee Wilson: Gaining a Sense of Self

by Rachel Robertson

Young Adult Fiction

Yellowcake by Margo Lanagan & The Wilful Eye: Tales from the Tower, Volume I edited by Isobelle Carmody and Nan McNab

by Benjamin Chandler