Australian Book Review

May 2011, no. 331

May 2011, no. 331

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Full Contents

Advances

News from the Editor's Desk

by Hidden Author

Letters

Letters to the Editor - May 2011

by Hidden Author

Commentary

A bomb in every download

Features

Chris Wallace-Crabbe reviews 'Collected Poems: Francis Webb' edited by Toby Davidson

by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Features

Morag Fraser reviews 'A Widow's Story'

by Morag Fraser

Features

When Horse Became Saw: A Family’s Journey through Autism by Anthony Macris

Features

Colin Golvan: The new electronic order

by Colin Golvan

Features

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

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

Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve by Libby Robin, Chris Dickman, and Mandy Martin

Fiction

Laurie Steed reviews 'The Ottoman Hotel' by Christopher Currie

by Laurie Steed

Fiction

Melinda Harvey reviews 'Too Close to Home' by Georgia Blain

by Melinda Harvey

Fiction

Carol Middleton reviews 'The Sparrows of Edward Street' by Elizabeth Stead

by Carol Middleton

Fiction

Jeffrey Poacher reviews 'The End of Longing' by Ian Reid

by Jeffrey Poacher

Fiction

Gillian Dooley reviews 'Love in the Years of Lunacy' by Mandy Sayer

by Gillian Dooley

Fiction

Thuy On reviews 'The Voyagers' by Mardi McConnochie

Fiction

Jay Daniel Thompson reviews 'The Indignities' by Graeme Aitken

by Jay Daniel Thompson

Fiction

Angela Meyer reviews 'The Kid on the Karaoke Stage and Other Stories' edited by Georgia Richter

by Angela Meyer

Fiction

Shaun Prescott reviews 'The Crossing' by B. Michael Radburn

by Shaun Prescott

Anthology

David McCooey reviews '100 Australian Poems of Love and Loss' edited by Jamie Grant

by David McCooey

Children's Fiction

Thuy On reviews 'The Golden Day' by Ursula Dubosarsky

Travel

A Food Lover’s Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela by Dee Nolan (photography by Earl Carter)

Film

The Tempest

by Brian McFarlane

Film

Ina Bertrand reviews 'Australian Documentary: History, Practices, Genres' by Trish FitzSimons, Pat Laughren, and Dugald Williamson

by Ina Bertrand

Music

The New Percy Grainger Companion edited by Penelope Thwaites

Literary Studies

Joseph Wiesenfarth reviews 'Rewriting History: Peter Carey’s Fictional Biography of Australia' by Andreas Gaile

by Joseph Wiesenfarth

French Studies

Typhus by Jean-Paul Sartre (translated by Chris Turner) & Critical Essays by Jean-Paul Sartre (translated by Chris Turner)

by Colin Nettelbeck

Theatre

Finishing the Hat by Stephen Sondheim & Sondheim on Music by Mark Eden Horowitz

by Michael Morley

Military History

Stephen Mansfield reviews 'Crack Hardy' by Stephen Dando-Collins

by Stephen Mansfield

Society

Gaining a Sense of Self by Karen Laura-Lee Wilson

by Rachel Robertson

Young Adult Fiction

Benjamin Chandler reviews 'Yellowcake' by Margo Lanagan and 'The Wilful Eye' edited by Isobelle Carmody and Nan McNab

by Benjamin Chandler

Features

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

Open Page

Open Page with Geraldine Brooks

by Australian Book Review