April 2012 no. 340
Letters to the Editor
Kerr the contextualist
Dear Editor,
Andrew Sayers’s thoughtful review of The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art (February 2012) encourages one to read this book tha ... More
Peter Conrad reviews 'The Hanging Garden' by Patrick White
Peter Conrad
‘Genius,’ as Arthur Rimbaud put it, ‘is childhood recovered at will.’ Rimbaud himself abandoned poetry at the age of twenty and thereafter refused to look back, but Patrick White e ... More
Frank Bongiorno reviews 'A History of Australia' by Mark Peel and Christina Twomey
Frank Bongiorno
‘The product under consideration is Shist.’ So began New Zealand historian Keith Sinclair’s discussion of short histories in 1968. His irreverent diminutive is still occasionally hea More
