Australian Book Review

July–August 2011, no. 333

July–August 2011, no. 333

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Full Contents

Children's Fiction

Ruth Starke reviews eight recent children's books

Young Adult Fiction

Bec Kavanagh reviews 'Pig Boy' by J.C. Burke

by Bec Kavanagh

Advances

News from the Editor's Desk

by Hidden Author

Letters

Letters to the Editor - July-August 2011

by Hidden Author

Asian Studies

There Goes the Neighbourhood: Australia and the Rise of Asia by Michael Wesley

Features

Feeling the Heat by Jo Chandler

by Rosaleen Love

Biography

Book Life: The Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell by Eileen Chanin

by Paul Brunton

Memoir

Final Proof: Memoirs of a publisher by Peter Ryan

Features

Owen Richardson reviews 'The Pale King' by David Foster Wallace

by Owen Richardson

Commentary

'Memories of Joan Sutherland' by Patricia Harewood

by Patricia Harewood

Open Page

Open Page with Delia Falconer

by Australian Book Review

Fiction

Jay Daniel Thompson reviews 'When We Have Wings' by Claire Corbett

by Jay Daniel Thompson

Fiction

Tim Brewer reviews 'Bearings' by Leah Swann

Fiction

Gregory Kratzmann reviews 'The Stranger's Child' by Alan Hollinghurst

by Gregory Kratzmann

Fiction

Brenda Niall reviews 'A Man of Parts' by David Lodge

by Brenda Niall

Fiction

Felicity Plunkett reviews 'The Amateur Science of Love' by Craig Sherborne

by Felicity Plunkett

Fiction

Francesca Sasnaitis reviews 'Harry Curry' by Stuart Littlemore

by Francesca Sasnaitis

Fiction

Christine Piper reviews 'The Vanishing Act' by Mette Jakobsen

by Christine Piper

Fiction

Amy Baillieu reviews 'Love, Honour & O'Brien' by Jennifer Rowe

by Amy Baillieu

Fiction

Carol Middleton reviews 'The Lace Tablecloth' by Anastasia Gessa-Liveriadis

by Carol Middleton

Australian History

John Rickard reviews '1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia' by James Boyce

by John Rickard

Film

Jane Eyre

by Melinda Harvey

Poem

'Morandi and the Hard Problem', a new poem by Stephen Edgar

by Stephen Edgar

Poem

'Camaldulensis', a new poem by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Poem

'Osip Mandelstam and Rosemary Dobson: A translation', a new poem by Rosemary Dobson

by Rosemary Dobson

Art

Vienna: Art and Design: Klimt, Schiele, Hoffmann, Loos by Christian Witt-Dörring et al.

by Andrew Montana

Cultural Studies

Between the Leaves: Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens by Katie Holmes

by Penny Hanley

Cookery Books

Teresa Oates and Angela Villella: Mangia! Mangia!; and Nouha Taouk: Whispers from a Lebanese Kitchen

by Christopher Menz

Music

Richard Strauss: A musical life by Raymond Holden

by Michael Morley

Biography

From Vienna to Yogyakarta: The Life of Herb Feith by Jemma Purdey

Commentary

'Hautes Fenêtres: Thoughts on the place of translation in recent Australian poetry' by Simon West

Commentary

'The divine stenographer: Victor Hugo and the glory of narrative' by Brian Nelson

by Brian Nelson

Poetry

New Impressions of Africa: Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique by Raymond Roussel, translated by Mark Ford

by William Heyward

History

Grazia Gunn reviews 'Cairo: Histories of a City' by Nezar AlSayyad

Language

Green’s Dictionary of Slang by Jonathon Green

Military History

Australia and the ‘New World Order’: From Peacekeeping to Peace Enforcement: 1988–1991 by David Horner

by Peter Edwards

Military History

Peter Pierce reviews 'P.O.W.: Australian Prisoners of War in Hitler’s Reich' by Peter Monteath

by Peter Pierce

Journalism

Reporter: Forty Years Covering Asia by John McBeth

by Richard Broinowski

Features

2011 Calibre Prize (winner): 'Who Killed Matilda?'

by Moira McKinnon