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

J.S. Gregory, Stephen Holt, Philip Harvey, Norman Etherington, Emma Kowal, Val Wake

Before Manning Clark

Dear Editor,

Norman Etherington’s lively ... More

Also in this issue

Neal Blewett on 'After Words: The Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches'

David Marr on Australia's penchant for panic

Dennis Altman

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'

A new orthodoxy for Australian art

Andrew Sayers

Stephanie Guest on Finding Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne

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The future of dictionaries in the digital age

Sarah Ogilvie

Nick Hordern reviews 'The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays'

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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

Henry Reynolds: A History of Tasmania

John Hirst

James Waite: The Premier and the Pastoralist

Bernard Whimpress

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

William Heyward

Patrick Allington reviews 'Chemistry of Tears'

Kirsten Tranter: A Common Loss

Ruth Starke

Carrie Tiffany: Mateship with Birds

Bronwyn Lea

Christopher Morgan: Currawalli Street

Carol Middleton

Francesca Rendle-Short: Bite Your Tongue

Donata Carrazza

Michael Sala: The Last Thread

Kate Holden

Rod Usher: Poor Man's Wealth

Phil Brown

Chandani Lokugé: Softly, As I Leave You

Gillian Dooley

Peter Corris: Comeback

Dean Biron

Deep River

Jennifer Maiden

Peter Rose: 'Grade'

Christopher Reed: Art and Homosexuality

Robert Aldrich

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

James McNamara

John Tranter (ed.): The Best Australian Poems 2011

Kate Middleton

David Day on 'The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing'

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

Philippa Mein Smith: A Concise History of New Zealand

Rachel Buchanan

Fiona Wright: Knuckled

Rose Lucas

Kim Scott, Iris Woods, and the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project: Mamang; and Kim Scott, Lomas Roberts and the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project: Noongar Mambara Bakitj

Christine Nicholls

Craig Thompson: Habibi

Oslo Davis