April 2012, no. 340

April 2012, no. 340
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Commentary

'Pushing against the dark: Writing about the hidden self' by Robert Dessaix (2011 Seymour Biography Lecture)

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Poem

'Night Guard, The Futures Museum after the ACMI Star Voyager Exhibition', a new poem by Lisa Gorton

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Open Page

Open Page with Brenda Niall

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Fiction

Peter Conrad reviews 'The Hanging Garden' by Patrick White

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Australian History

Frank Bongiorno reviews 'A History of Australia' by Mark Peel and Christina Twomey

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Film

Memoirs of a Young Bastard: The diaries of Tim Burstall November 1953 to December 1954 edited by Hilary McPhee with Ann Standish

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Food

A Cook’s Life by Stephanie Alexander

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Politics

Peter Mares reviews 'Frontier Justice' by Andy Lamey and 'Contesting Citizenship' by Anne McNevin

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Features

Maria Takolander reviews 'Young Poets: An Australian anthology' edited by John Leonard

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Literary Studies

James Ley reviews 'The Lives of the Novelists' by John Sutherland

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Fiction

Inside Creative Writing: Interviews with contemporary writers edited by Graeme Harper

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Biography

True North: The story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack by Brenda Niall

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Biography

Alfred Kazin by Richard M. Cook & Alfred Kazin’s Journals edited by Richard M. Cook

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Biography

The Keats Brothers: The life of John and George by Denise Gigante

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Memoir

Fishing the River of Time by Tony Taylor

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Memoir

There Stands My House: A memoir by Hans Keilson

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Politics

Matthew Lamb reviews 'The Australian Moment: How We Were Made for These Times' by George Megalogenis

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Graphic Novel

Ronnie Scott reviews 'Blue' by Pat Grant

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International Studies

The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the struggle for Russia by Angus Roxburgh

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Fiction

Dean Biron reviews 'Closer to Stone' by Simon Cleary

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Fiction

Francesca Sasnaitis reviews 'The Longing' by Candice Bruce

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Fiction

Elena Gomez reviews 'Unaccountable Hours' by Stephen Scourfield

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Fiction

Alan Vaarwerk reviews 'After the Darkness' by Honey Brown

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Fiction

Jeremy Fisher reviews 'The Light Between Oceans' by M.L. Stedman

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Fiction

Alice Robinson reviews 'The Fine Colour of Rust' by P.A. O'Reilly

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Poetry

Martin Duwell reviews 'The Welfare of My Enemy' by Anthony Lawrence

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Poetry

Mark Treddinick reviews 'Vishvarūpa' by Michelle Cahill

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Language

'Parasitic dictionaries and spam books' by Sarah Ogilvie

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Cultural Studies

Race and the Modern Exotic: Three 'Australian' women on global display by Angela Woollacott

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Military History

Craig Wilcox reviews 'Desert Boys' by Peter Rees

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Journal

Us and Them: On the importance of animals (Quarterly Essay 45) by Anna Krien

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East Timor

Making Them Indonesians: Child transfers out of East Timor by Helene van Klinken

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Advances

News from the Editor's Desk

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Letters

Letters to the Editor – April 2012

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Fiction

Lucas Smith reviews 'The Cartographer' by Peter Twohig

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Film

Coriolanus

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