February 2012 no. 338

February 2012 no. 338

Editor's Diary 2011

Peter Rose

by Peter Rose

January 6

Such high standards the American magazines maintain, with their enviable resources. Fine valedictory article in the New Y ... More

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The fifty-seventh summer of Ray Lawler’s great play

John Rickard

‘This harsh, cawing, strongly felt play’

by John Rickard

 

 

I first saw Summer of the Seventeenth Doll in 1957 in London, of all ... More

News from the Editor's Desk

 

ABR Fellowship news

Our largest and strongest field to date vied for the latest More

Letters to the Editor - February 2012

Before Manning Clark

Dear Editor,

Norman Etherington’s lively ... More

Also in this issue

Neal Blewett on 'After Words: The Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches' by P.J. Keating

Dennis Altman reviews 'Panic' by David Marr

Morag Fraser: 'Fear and loathing in American politics'

A definitive biography of Shakespeare’s great rival

Lisa Gorton

Robin Prior reviews 'All Hell Let Loose' by Max Hastings

A new orthodoxy for Australian art

Andrew Sayers

Stephanie Guest on Finding Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne

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'‘A new garment throughout’: The future of dictionaries in the digital age' by Sarah Ogilvie

Nick Hordern reviews 'The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays' by Simon Leys

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Sonya Hartnett: Wolf Creek

Adam Rivett

Philip French: I Found It at the Movies

Brian McFarlane

Kevin Avery (ed.): Conversations With Clint

Jake Wilson

John Hirst reviews 'A History of Tasmania' by Henry Reynolds

Bernard Whimpress reviews 'The Premier and the Pastoralist: William Morgan and Peter Waite' by James Waite

Sally Heath (ed.): Meanjin, Vol. 70, No. 4

William Heyward

Patrick Allington reviews 'The Chemistry of Tears' by Peter Carey

Ruth Starke reviews 'A Common Loss' by Kirsten Tranter

Bronwyn Lea reviews 'Mateship with Birds' by Carrie Tiffany

Carol Middleton reviews 'Currawalli Street' by Christopher Morgan

Donata Carrazza reviews 'Bite Your Tongue' by Francesca Rendle-Short

Kate Holden reviews 'The Last Thread' by Michael Sala

Phil Brown reviews 'Poor Man's Wealth' by Rod Usher

Gillian Dooley reviews 'Softly, As I Leave You' by Chandani Lokugé

Dean Biron reviews 'Comeback' by Peter Corris

'Deep River' a new poem by Jennifer Maiden

'Grade', a new poem by Peter Rose

Christopher Reed: Art and Homosexuality

Robert Aldrich

Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon (eds):The Letters of Ernest Hemingway

James McNamara

Kate Middleton reviews 'The Best Australian Poems 2011' edited by John Tranter

David Day reviews 'The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing' edited by Mark Dapin

Fiona Morrison (ed.): Selected Prose of Dorothy Hewett

Bruce Bennett

Melinda Harvey reviews Margaret Atwood's 'In Other Worlds'

Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Emperor of all Maladies; Paul Cox: Tales From the Cancer Ward; Geoff Goodfellow, Grace Goodfellow, and Randy Larcombe: Waltzing with Jack Dancer; and Dudley Bradshaw: Cancer Four Times Removed

Felicity Plunkett

Matt Granfield: HipsterMattic

Alex O'Brien

Nigel Starck: Proud Australian Boy

John Ellison Davies

Michael Keane: Views From the Balcony

Desley Deacon

Rachel Buchanan reviews 'A Concise History of New Zealand' by Philippa Mein

Fiona Wright: Knuckled

Rose Lucas

Christine Nicholls reviews 'Mamang' by Kim Scott, Iris Woods, and the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project and 'Noongar Mambara Bakitj' by Kim Scott, Lomas Roberts and the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project

Oslo Davis reviews 'Habibi' by Craig Thompson