July–August 2012 no. 343

July–August 2012 no. 343

Alice Kessler-Harris: A Difficult Woman

Desley Deacon

Desley Deacon

 

A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman
by Alice Kessler-Harris
Bloomsbury, $39.99 hb, 439 pp, 97 ... More

News from the Editor's Desk

 

ABR moves to Southbank

While this issue is printing, we’ll be moving to our new office in More

Anne Chisolm on the humiliation of Rupert Murdoch

Anne Chisolm

It all began with Prince William’s knee. Not, of course, the phone hacking and bribery and corruption which, as we all now know, was commonplace behaviour in the British tabloid newspape ... More

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Wordly riches at the Barnes

Patrick McCaughey

From musty Merion to a new home in Philadelphia

by Patrick McCaughey

 

In mid-May the Barnes Foundation opened at its new location in the cultural corridor ... More

Also in this issue

Australian graphic arts at the British Museum

Angus Trumble

Our architectural heritage

Gerard Vaughan

Napoleon rules at the NGV

Robert Aldrich

A lifetime of poems from Rosemary Dobson

Susan Sheridan

Not just another war story

David Karoly

Open Page with Gillian Mears

Letters to the Editor

Lisa Jacobson: The Sunlit Zone

Peter Kenneally

Barry Hill: Naked Clay

Kate Middleton

Michael Sharkey: Another Fine Morning in Paradise

Paul Hetherington

Kristin Henry: All the Way Home

Peter Kenneally

Chins

Ben Juers

Metaphors

Ben Juers

Morag Fraser on 'Michael O’Connell: The Lost Modernist'

Susan Cohn (ed.): Unexpected Pleasures

Christopher Menz

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

Sarah Scott

Janet McKenzie: Contemporary Australian Drawing #1

Justin Clemens

Steven Miller: Dogs in Australian Art

Stella Gray

Glenn Barkley and Lesley Harding (eds): Ken Whisson

Eileen Chanin

Joe Rollo: Beautiful Ugly

Isobel Crombie

Anthony White: Lucio Fontana

Peter Hill

Richard Neville: Mr JW Lewin

John Thompson

Christopher Menz (ed.): Visions Past and Present

Jane Clark

Jenny McFarlane: Concerning the Spiritual

Steven Miller

Tony Cavanaugh: Promise

Dean Biron

John Hughes: The Remnants

Ed Wright

James Ley reviews 'Canada'

Amy T. Matthews: End of the Night Girl

Anna Heyward

Sue Woolfe: The Oldest Song in the World

Jane Sullivan

Past the Shallows

Amy Baillieu

Nick Earls: Welcome to Normal

Jeffrey Poacher

Justin Heazlewood: The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries

Milly Main

Lyndall Ryan: Tasmanian Aborigines

Greg Lehman

Lament for the Makars

Andrew Taylor

Shearing the Rams

Kate Middleton

Grand Canyon

Stephen Edgar

Nick Herd: Networking

Philip Bell

Gideon Haigh: The Office

Jane Goodall

Robin de Crespigny: The People Smuggler

Paul Morgan

Sydney Smith: The Lost Woman

Carmel Bird

McKenzie Wark: The Beach Beneath the Street

Ben Juers

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

Susan Crennan

Shirley Marr: Preloved; Kirsty Eagar: Night Beach; and Rosanne Hawke: The Messenger Bird

Pam Macintyre

Doug MacLeod: The Shiny Guys

Bec Kavanagh

John Boyne: The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket

Laura Elvery