How to resolve AdBlock issue? November 2013, no. 356
Welcome to the November issue of Australian Book Review – our first Performing Arts issue and one of the highlights of our publishing year. Highlights are many and varied. They include Melbourne theatre critic Andrew Fuhrmann’s long article ‘A Theatre of His Own: The Problematic Plays of Patrick White’ – the fruit of his ABR Ian Potter Foundation Fellowship. It’s a huge time for fiction publishing in Australia, and Brian Matthews finds much to admire in Tim Winton’s new novel, Eyrie, while Rosemary Sorensen reviews Christos Tsiolkas’s Barracuda. Steven Carroll tackles a biography of the man who lived with and edited T.S. Eliot. We also name the winner of this year’s Jolley Prize.
Full Contents
Literary Studies
Tarantula's Web: John Hayward, T.S. Eliot and their Circle by John Smart
Australian History
Living with Fire: People, nature and history in Steels Creek by Christine Hansen and Tom Griffiths
by Robert Kenny
Australian History
Charles Robert Scrivener: The Surveyor who Sited Australia's National Capital Twice by Terry Birtles
Australian History
Dancing with Empty Pockets: Australia's Bohemians since 1860 by Tony Moore
Journals
Australian Journal of French Studies: Vol. L, No. 1 edited by Brian Nelson
Military History
Kitty's War: The Remarkable Wartime Experiences of Kit McNaughton by Janet Butler
by Jo Scanlan
Music
Marshall-Hall's Melbourne: Music, Art and Controversy 1891–1915 edited by Thérèse Radic and Suzanne Robinson
Language
Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
Literary Studies
Telling Stories: Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 edited by Tanya Dalziell and Paul Genoni
by Susan Lever
Japan