December 2012–January 2013, no. 347

December 2012–January 2013, no. 347

Welcome to our mega summer issue. Readers (and authors!) are always keen to know what our key writers regard as the ‘Books of the Year’. This year 26 critics nominate their favourite books – and tell us why they like them. They include Alex Miller, Brenda Niall,Kerryn Goldsworthy and Tony Birch. Nick Hordern reviews John Cantwell’s strikingly candid book Exit Wounds. We have reviews of new fiction by David Foster, J.K. Rowling and Christopher Koch; a short story by John Bryson; and a new poem by John Kinsella.

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Full Contents

Features

Nick Hordern reviews 'Exit Wounds'

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Politics

Jane Goodall reviews 'Tales from the Political Trenches' by Maxine McKew

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Features

Don Anderson reviews 'Lost Voices' by Christopher Koch

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Features

'Patrick White to the Rescue' by David Carter

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Features

William Christie on the new biography of John Keats

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True Crime

Alison Broinowski reviews 'The Waterlow Killings' by Pamela Burton

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Features

Books of the Year 2012

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Features

Robyn Williams reviews 'The Best Australian Science Writing 2012'

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Advances

News from the Editor's Desk

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Letters

Letters to the Editor

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Fiction

James Ley reviews 'The Casual Vacancy' by J.K. Rowling

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Fiction

Susan Lever reviews 'Man of Letters: Dog Rock 3' by David Foster

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Fiction

Jane Sullivan reviews 'The Seaglass Spiral' by Alan Gould

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Fiction

Gillian Dooley reviews 'The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer' by Edwina Preston

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Fiction

Sky Kirkham reviews 'The Tower Mill' by James Moloney

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Fiction

Robert Horne reviews 'An Unknown Sky and Other Stories' by Susan Midalia

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Fiction

Grace Nye reviews 'Nightfall' by Will Elliott

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Fiction

Jay Daniel Thompson reviews 'The Darkest Little Room' by Patrick Holland

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Fiction

Crusader Hillis reviews 'Walter' by Ashley Sievwright

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Biography

Kári Gíslason on the new biography of Strindberg

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Biography

Chris Wallace-Crabbe on the new biography of Davis McCaughey

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Biography

David McCooey reviews the new biography of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons

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Biography

Sally Burton on 'The Remarkable Life of Julia Child'

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Cricket

Brian Matthews reviews 'On Warne'

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Cricket

Bernard Whimpress reviews 'Bradman’s War'

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Anthology

Gillian Terzis reviews 'The Best Australian Business Writing 2012'

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Anthology

Geoffrey Lehmann on 'London: A History in Verse'

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Food

Christopher Menz reviews 'My Umbrian Kitchen'

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Art

Steven Miller reviews 'Sydney Long: The Spirit of the Land'

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Art

Robin Wallace-Crabbe on 'Vassilieff and His Art'

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Poetry

Anthony Lynch reviews 'Collusion' by Brook Emery

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Theatre

Wild Surmise

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Film

Michael Fleming reviews 'British Crime Film'

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Short Story

'Kindly Death', a new story by John Bryson

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Society

Richard Broinowski on two titles exploring Sydney University

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Poem

'Brother', a new poem by John Kinsella

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Philosophy

Craig Taylor reviews 'The Antipodean Philosopher, Volume 2'

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Military History

Peter Edwards: 'Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War'

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Literary Studies

Shannon Burns reviews 'Promiscuous' by Bernard Avishai

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Australian History

John Thompson on 'Canberry Tales: An Informal History' by Granville Allen Mawer

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Natural History

Peter Menkhorst reviews 'Curious Minds'

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Picture Books

Joy Lawn reviews recent picture books

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Young Adult Fiction

Laura Elvery reviews 'Into that Forest' by Louis Nowra

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