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April 2012, no. 340
Also in this issue
News from the Editor's Desk
Letters to the Editor
Peter Conrad reviews 'The Hanging Garden' by Patrick White
Frank Bongiorno reviews 'A History of Australia' by Mark Peel and Christina Twomey
Hilary McPhee (ed.) with Ann Standish: Memoirs of a Young Bastard
John Thompson
The apotheosis of Stephanie Alexander
Free
Peter Mares reviews 'Frontier Justice' by Andy Lamey and 'Contesting Citizenship' by Anne McNevin
'Pushing against the dark: Writing about the hidden self' by Robert Dessaix (2011 Seymour Biography Lecture)
Maria Takolander reviews 'Young Poets: An Australian Anthology' edited by John Leonard
Open Page with Brenda Niall
James Ley reviews 'The Lives of the Novelists' by John Sutherland
Ruth Starke reviews 'Inside Creative Writing'
Brenda Niall: True North
Susan Sheridan
Richard M. Cook: Alfred Kazin; and Richard M. Cook (ed.): Alfred Kazin's Journals
Don Anderson
Denise Gigante: The Keats Brothers
William Christie
Tony Taylor: Fishing the River of Time
Carol Middleton
Hans Keilson: There Stands My House
William Heyward
Matthew Lamb reviews 'The Australian Moment: How We Were Made for These Times' by George Megalogenis
'Night Guard, The Futures Museum after the ACMI Star Voyager Exhibition', a new poem by Lisa Gorton
Ronnie Scott reviews 'Blue' by Pat Grant
Angus Roxburgh: The Strongman
Geoff Winestock
Dean Biron reviews 'Closer to Stone' by Simon Cleary
Francesca Sasnaitis reviews 'The Longing' by Candice Bruce
Elena Gomez reviews 'Unaccountable Hours' by Stephen Scourfield
Alan Vaarwerk reviews 'After the Darkness' by Honey Brown
Jeremy Fisher reviews 'The Light Between Oceans' by M.L. Stedman
Alice Robinson reviews 'The Fine Colour of Rust' by P.A. O'Reilly
Lucas Smith reviews 'The Cartographer' by Peter Twohig
Coriolanus
Free
Martin Duwell reviews 'The Welfare of My Enemy' by Anthony Lawrence
Mark Treddinick reviews 'Vishvarūpa' by Michelle Cahill
'Parasitic dictionaries and spam books' by Sarah Ogilvie
Sarah Ogilvie
Angela Woollacott: Race and the Modern Exotic
John Rickard
Craig Wilcox reviews 'Desert Boys' by Peter Rees
Anna Krien: Us and Them (Quarterly Essay 45)
Alex O'Brien
Helene van Klinken: Making Them Indonesians
Jill Jolliffe
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