June 2013, no. 352

June 2013, no. 352

Welcome to the June issue of ABR – another highly varied one. Emma McEwin – Douglas Mawson’s great-granddaughter – writes about Mawson’s ‘iron gut’ and his fellow Antarctic explorers’ dietary habits, including a queasy penchant for ‘penguins on horseback’. Miriam Cosic reviews the Coetzee–Auster correspondence, and Pascall Prize-winner Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews Lionel Shriver’s new novel. Brian McFarlane is underwhelmed by Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby. Opera is a major theme this month. World-renowned conductor Jeffrey Tate is intrigued by the controversial new biography of Benjamin Britten, and Peter Rose writes about three productions in Melbourne.

Penguins on Horseback

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Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea

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Big Brother by Lionel Shriver

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The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature edited by Jane Stafford and Mark Williams

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Simon Caterson on 'John le Carré’s spy at fifty'

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'Diary Poem: Uses of Frank O’Hara', a new poem by Jennifer Maiden

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Here and Now: Letters, 2008–2011 by Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee & Distant Intimacy: A Friendship in the Age of the Internet by Frederic Raphael and Joseph Epstein

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Every Parent’s Nightmare: Jock Palfreeman and the True Story of His Father’s Fight to Save Him from a Lifetime in a Bulgarian Jail by Belinda Hawkins

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Letters to the Editor

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News from the Editor's Desk

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The Great Gatsby

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Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John by Helen Trinca

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Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist by Brigitta Olubas

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The Beloved by Annah Faulkner

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My Beautiful Enemy by Cory Taylor

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Who We Were by Lucy Neave

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Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk

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Loving This Planet by Helen Caldicott & Waging Peace: Reflections on Peace and War from an Unconventional Woman by Anne Deveson

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The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War by Lara Feigel

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Open Page with John Kinsella

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The Collected Blue Hills by Laurie Duggan

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'30.11.12', a new poem by Ken Bolton

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A masked Verdi

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Wotan’s Daughter: The Life of Marjorie Lawrence by Richard Davis

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Hawthorne’s Habitations: A Literary Life by Robert Milder

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From a Distant Shore: Australian Writers in Britain 1820–2012 by Bruce Bennett and Anne Pender

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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations by Mary Beard

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Taking Stock: The Humanities in Australia edited by Mark Finnane and Ian Donaldson

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The Drinker by Hans Fallada, translated by Charlotte Lloyd and A.L. Lloyd

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Letters to the End of Love by Yvette Walker

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Now Showing by Ron Elliott

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Beast Language by Toby Davidson

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'The Tick', a new poem by Lynette Field

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The Bicycle Thief & Other Poems by Andrew Sant

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Soldier of Christ: The Life of Pope Pius XII by Robert A. Ventresca

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The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia by Dane Kennedy

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Mateship with Birds by A.H. Chisholm

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A Flower Between the Cracks: A Memoir of Love, Hope and Disability by Helen Sage

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Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature, Vol. 26, No. 2 edited by Nicholas Birns

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A Very Unusual Pursuit: City of Orphans, Book One by Catherine Jinks & Julius and the Watchmaker by Tim Hehir

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