Australian Book Review

July–August 2012, no. 343

July–August 2012, no. 343

Full Contents

Biography

Alice Kessler-Harris: A Difficult Woman

by Desley Deacon

Advances

News from the Editor's Desk

by Hidden Author

Media

Dial M for Murdoch: NewS Corporation and the Corruption of Britain by by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman

by Anne Chisolm

Features

Wordly riches at the Barnes

by Patrick McCaughey

Features

Australian graphic arts at the British Museum

by Angus Trumble

Features

Our architectural heritage

by Gerard Vaughan

Features

Napoleon rules at the NGV

by Robert Aldrich

Features

Collected by Rosemary Dobson

by Susan Sheridan

Features

Not just another war story

by David Karoly

Open Page

Open Page with Gillian Mears

by Australian Book Review

Letters

Letters to the Editor

by Hidden Author

Poetry

The Sunlit Zone by Lisa Jacobson

by Peter Kenneally

Poetry

Barry Hill: Naked Clay

by Kate Middleton

Poetry

Another Fine Morning in Paradise by Michael Sharkey

by Paul Hetherington

Poetry

All the Way Home by Kristin Henry

by Peter Kenneally

Cartoon

Chins

Cartoon

Metaphors

Art

Michael O’Connell: The Lost Modernist by Harriet Edquist

by Morag Fraser

Art

Susan Cohn (ed.): Unexpected Pleasures

by Christopher Menz

Art

Simon Pierse: Australian Art and Artists in London, 1950–1965

Art

Janet McKenzie: Contemporary Australian Drawing #1

by Justin Clemens

Art

Steven Miller: Dogs in Australian Art

Art

Glenn Barkley and Lesley Harding (eds): Ken Whisson

by Eileen Chanin

Art

Joe Rollo: Beautiful Ugly

by Isobel Crombie

Art

Anthony White: Lucio Fontana

Art

Richard Neville: Mr JW Lewin

by John Thompson

Art

Christopher Menz (ed.): Visions Past and Present

Art

Jenny McFarlane: Concerning the Spiritual

by Steven Miller

Fiction

Promise by Tony Cavanaugh

Fiction

The Remnants by John Hughes

Fiction

Canada by Richard Ford

Fiction

End of the Night Girl by Amy T. Matthews

by Anna Heyward

Fiction

THE OLDEST SONG IN THE WORLD by Sue Woolfe

by Jane Sullivan

Fiction

Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett

by Amy Baillieu

Fiction

WELCOME TO NORMAL by Nick Earls

by Jeffrey Poacher

Diaries

The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries by Justin Heazlewood

Indigenous Studies

Lyndall Ryan: Tasmanian Aborigines

Poem

'Lament for the Makars', a new poem by Andrew Taylor

by Andrew Taylor

Poem

'Shearing the Rams', a new poem by Kate Middleton

by Kate Middleton

Poem

'Grand Canyon', a new poem by Stephen Edgar

by Stephen Edgar

Media

Nick Herd: Networking

Society

Gideon Haigh: The Office

by Jane Goodall

Memoir

Robin de Crespigny: The People Smuggler

Memoir

Sydney Smith: The Lost Woman

Cultural Studies

McKenzie Wark: The Beach Beneath the Street

Australian History

Nicola Chrichton-Brown: Deltroit and the Valley of Hillas Creek

by Susan Crennan

Young Adult Fiction

Pam Macintyre reviews 'Preloved' by Shirley Marr, 'Night Beach' by Kirsty Eagar and 'The Messenger Bird' by Rosanne Hawke

by Pam Macintyre

Young Adult Fiction

The Shiny Guys by Doug MacLeod

by Bec Kavanagh

Children's Fiction

The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne

by Laura Elvery

Short Stories

Foreigners: A new collection of short stories by David Martin

by Clement Semmler