Australian Book Review

June 2011, no. 332

June 2011, no. 332

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Full Contents

Letters

Letters to the Editor - June 2011

by Hidden Author

Features

'The paradoxical neglect of Australian art abroad' by Patrick McCaughey

by Patrick McCaughey

Features

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris

by Frances Spalding

Features

Good Living Street: A Personal History by David Walker

by Evelyn Juers

Features

Gideon Haigh reviews 'Sideshow: Dumbing down democracy' by Lindsay Tanner

by Gideon Haigh

Features

Patrick Allington questions ‘What is Australia, anyway?’

by Patrick Allington

Features

Gerard Vaughan reviews 'A History of the World in 100 Objects' by Neil MacGregor

by Gerard Vaughan

Features

Sophie Cunningham reviews 'Caleb's Crossing' by Geraldine Brooks

by Sophie Cunningham

Open Page

Open Page with Rodney Hall

by Australian Book Review

Art

Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed edited by Ruth Pullin

Art

Percy Lindsay: Artist & Bohemian by Silas Clifford-Smith

by Christopher Menz

Art

Art, Love and Life: Ethel Carrick and E. Phillips Fox by Angela Goddard

Photography

Look: Contemporary Photography Since 1980 by Anne Marsh

Art

Lines for Birds: Poems and Paintings by Barry Hill and John Wolseley

by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Art

Patricia Piccinini: Once Upon a Time ... by Jane Messenger

by Wendy Walker

Art

The Hare With Amber Eyes: A hidden inheritance by Edmund de Waal

by Angus Trumble

Art

The Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 1984–2008: Celebrating 25 Years by Sue Bassett

Art

Notebooks by Betty Churcher

by Alan R. Dodge

Fiction

Chris Flynn reviews 'You Lose These + Other Stories' by Goldie Goldbloom

Fiction

Judith Armstrong reviews 'Shooting the Fox' by Marion Halligan:

by Judith Armstrong

Fiction

Rhyll Mcmaster reviews 'The Secret Fate of Mary Watson' by Judy Johnson

by Rhyll McMaster

Fiction

Carmel Bird reviews 'The Roving Party' by Rohan Wilson:

Fiction

Kate Holden reviews 'I Hate Martin Amis Et Al.' by Peter Barry

Fiction

Adam Rivett reviews 'The Life' by Malcolm Knox

Fiction

Angela Meyer reviews 'Faces in the Clouds' by Matt Nable

by Angela Meyer

Commentary

It should be so, it must be so

by Daniel Thomas

Film

Here I Am

International Studies

Alison Broinowski reviews 'The Decline and Fall of the American Republic' by Bruce Ackerman

by Alison Broinowski

Biography

A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd

Journalism

Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting by Fay Anderson and Richard Trembath

by Jill Jolliffe

Military History

Elisabeth Holdsworth reviews 'All Day Long the Noise of Battle' by Gerard Windsor

by Elisabeth Holdsworth

Ornithology

The Business of Nature: John Gould and Australia by Roslyn Russell

by John Thompson

Picture Books

Stephanie Owen Reeder reviews eight new picture books

by Stephanie Owen Reeder

Poem

'The Sublime', a new poem by Kevin Brophy

by Kevin Brophy

Advances

News from the Editor's Desk

by Hidden Author

Young Adult Fiction

Margot McGovern reviews 'Thyla' by Kate Gordon

by Margot McGovern