Australian Book Review

April 2012, no. 340

April 2012, no. 340

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Full Contents

Advances

News from the Editor's Desk

by Hidden Author

Letters

Letters to the Editor

by Hidden Author

Fiction

Peter Conrad reviews 'The Hanging Garden' by Patrick White

by Peter Conrad

Australian History

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

by Frank Bongiorno

Film

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

by John Thompson

Food

A Cook’s Life by Stephanie Alexander

Politics

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

Commentary

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

by Robert Dessaix

Features

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

by Maria Takolander

Open Page

Open Page with Brenda Niall

by Australian Book Review

Literary Studies

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

Fiction

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

Biography

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

by Susan Sheridan

Biography

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

by Don Anderson

Biography

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

by William Christie

Memoir

Fishing the River of Time by Tony Taylor

by Carol Middleton

Memoir

There Stands My House: A memoir by Hans Keilson

by William Heyward

Politics

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

by Matthew Lamb

Poem

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

Graphic Novel

Ronnie Scott reviews 'Blue' by Pat Grant

by Ronnie Scott

International Studies

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

by Geoff Winestock

Fiction

Dean Biron reviews 'Closer to Stone' by Simon Cleary

Fiction

Francesca Sasnaitis reviews 'The Longing' by Candice Bruce

by Francesca Sasnaitis

Fiction

Elena Gomez reviews 'Unaccountable Hours' by Stephen Scourfield

Fiction

Alan Vaarwerk reviews 'After the Darkness' by Honey Brown

by Alan Vaarwerk

Fiction

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

by Jeremy Fisher

Fiction

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

by Alice Robinson

Fiction

Lucas Smith reviews 'The Cartographer' by Peter Twohig

Film

Coriolanus

by Michael Morley

Poetry

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

by Martin Duwell

Poetry

Mark Treddinick reviews 'Vishvarūpa' by Michelle Cahill

by Mark Treddinick

Language

'Parasitic dictionaries and spam books' by Sarah Ogilvie

by Sarah Ogilvie

Cultural Studies

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

by John Rickard

Military History

Craig Wilcox reviews 'Desert Boys' by Peter Rees

by Craig Wilcox

Journal

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

by Alex O'Brien

East Timor

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

by Jill Jolliffe