February 2011 no. 328

February 2011 no. 328

News from the Editor's Desk

Internship opportunity

Australian Book Review – supported by the Sidney Myer Fund – seeks applications for an editorial intern. This is a unique opportunity for recent graduates s ... More

James Ley, Rowena Lennox, Ian Britain

Critical statues

Dear Editor,

It may well have been Sibelius and not Bartók who said that no one has ever erected a statue in honour of a critic ... More

Nicholas Thomas: Islanders

Alan Frost

IslandersRevisionist perspectives on the Pacific

Alan Frost

 

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John B. Thompson: Merchants of Culture

Terri-ann White

merchants-of-cultureTesting times for modern publishers

Terri-ann Whit ... More

Also in this issue

Paul Kelly: How to Make Gravy

Anna Goldsworthy

James Bradley (ed.): The Penguin Book of the Ocean

Gregory Kratzmann

'Suitable for a Lampshade' a new story by Josephine Rowe

Free

Gail Jones: Five Bells

Felicity Plunkett

The biographer’s contract

Free

Open Page with Hazel Rowley

Shirley Walker reviews 'Nine Lives'

RS White reviews 'Shakespeare, Sex, and Love' by Stanley Wells, 'Shakespeare’s Freedom' by Stephen Greenblatt, and 'Shakespeare’s Individualism' by Peter Holbrook

David Throsby reviews 'Piracy'

Free

Ross Fitzgerald and Stephen Holt: Alan ‘The Red Fox’ Reid

Tom D.C. Roberts

Wayne MacAuley: Other Stories

Laurie Steed

Tara Moss: The Blood Countess

Jay Daniel Thompson

John Tesarsch: The Philanthropist

Thuy On

Andrew Ford: The Sound of Pictures

Robert Gibson

Philip Hodgins – A Dream

Brendan Ryan

Paper Gardener

Ian Templeman

Robert Adamson (ed.): The Best Australian Poems 2010

Philip Mead

Cate Kennedy (ed.): The Best Australian Stories 2010; and Aviva Tuffield (ed.): New Australian Stories 2

Chris Flynn

Alice Grundy et al. (eds): I Can See My House From Here

Alex Lewis

Gillian Dooley reviews 'A Waltz for Matilda' by Jackie French

Laura Buzo: Good Oil

Pam Macintyre

Randa Abdel-Fattah: Noah's Law

Stephen Mansfield

John Cornwell: Newman's Unquiet Grave

Glyn Davis

Kathleen Jones: Katherine Mansfield

Lisa Gorton

Terry Smith: What is Contemporary Art?

Joanna Mendelssohn

Anne Gray: Face; and Vivien Gaston: The Naked Face

Sheridan Palmer

Peter Craven on Porter's 'The Rest on the Flight'

Jennifer Harrison: Colombine

Martin Duwell

Robyn Rowland: Seasons of Doubt & Burning

Maria Takolander

Richard Eyre: Talking Theatre

Michael Morley

Penny Russell: Savage or Civilised?

John Rickard

Lesley van Schoubroeck: The Lure of Politics

Clement Macintyre

Jon Altman and Melinda Hinkson (eds): Culture Crisis

Peter Menkhorst

Jill Jolliffe: Finding Santana

Joan Grant

Ann Moyal: Platypus

Peter Menkhorst

Tim Flannery: Here on Earth

Timothy Roberts