Australian Book Review

July–August 2011, no. 333

July–August 2011, no. 333

Full Contents

Advances

News from the Editor's Desk

by Hidden Author

Letters

Letters to the Editor - July-August 2011

by Hidden Author

Features

Michael Wesley: There Goes the Neighbourhood

Features

Jo Chandler: Feeling the Heat

by Rosaleen Love

Features

Eileen Chanin: Book Life

by Paul Brunton

Features

Peter Ryan: Final Proof

Features

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

by Moira McKinnon

Features

The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel by David Foster Wallace

by Owen Richardson

Features

Memories of Joan Sutherland

by Patricia Harewood

Open Page

Open Page with Delia Falconer

by Australian Book Review

Fiction

When We Have Wings by Claire Corbett

by Jay Daniel Thompson

Fiction

Bearings by Leah Swann

Fiction

The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst

by Gregory Kratzmann

Fiction

A Man of Parts: A Novel by David Lodge

by Brenda Niall

Fiction

The Amateur Science of Love by Craig Sherborne

by Felicity Plunkett

Fiction

Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice by Stuart Littlemore

by Francesca Sasnaitis

Fiction

The Vanishing Act by Mette Jakobsen

by Christine Piper

Fiction

Love, Honour & O'Brien by Jennifer Rowe

by Amy Baillieu

Fiction

The Lace Tablecloth by Anastasia Gessa-Liveriadis

by Carol Middleton

Australian History

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

Christian Witt-Dörring et al.: Vienna

by Andrew Montana

Cultural Studies

Katie Holmes: Between the Leaves

by Penny Hanley

Cookery Books

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

by Christopher Menz

Music

Raymond Holden: Richard Strauss

by Michael Morley

Biography

Jemma Purdey: From Vienna to Yogyakarta

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

French Studies

Raymond Roussel: New Impressions of Africa

by William Heyward

History

Cairo: Histories of a City by Nezar AlSayyad

Language

Jonathon Green: Green's Dictionary of Slang

Military History

David Horner: Australia and the 'New World Order'

by Peter Edwards

Military History

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

by Peter Pierce

Journalism

John McBeth: Reporter

by Richard Broinowski

Children's Fiction

Ruth Starke reviews eight recent children's books

Young Adult Fiction

Pig Boy by J.C. Burke

by Bec Kavanagh