
February 2013, no. 348
Welcome to our first issue for 2013! Highlights include Morag Fraser’s annual letter from the US – about the state of play in Washington D.C. Bernadette Brennan reviews Geordie Williamson’s controversial book The Burning Library. The first biography of J.M. Coetzee is reviewed by Gillian Dooley. We have reviews of new fiction by Brian Castro and Graeme Simsion. Brenda Niall writes at length about tensions between Henry Handel Richardson and Nettie Palmer.
The Burning Library: Great Novelists Lost and Found by Geordie Williamson
J.M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing by J.C. Kannemeyer, translated by Michiel Heyns
Street to Street by Brian Castro
Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life by Artur Domosławski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Norman Haire and the Study of Sex by Diana Wyndham
by John Rickard
The Best Australian Stories 2012 edited by Sonya Hartnett
Great Western Highway: A Love Story (Capital, Volume One, Part Two) by Anthony Macris
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
by Jo Case
Darkness on the Edge of Town by Jessie Cole
by Romy Ash
Whisky Charlie Foxtrot by Annabel Smith
The Toe Tag Quintet: Five Novellas of Murder and Mayhem by Matthew Condon
The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume 3: 1926–1927 edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden
Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother edited by William Shawcross
Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature by Charles Rosen
101 Contemporary Australian Artists edited by Kelly Gellatly
by Doug Hall
Honestly: Notes on Life by Nikki Gemmell
People on Country: Vital Landscapes, Indigenous Futures edited by Jon Altman and Seán Kerins
Fallout from Fukushima by Richard Broinowski
City by James Roy
by Laura Elvery
Black Spring by Alison Croggon
by Bec Kavanagh
On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell
Walking Home by Simon Armitage
by Bronwyn Lea
The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine by Don Share and Christian Wiman
Liquid Nitrogen by Jennifer Maiden
Available Light by Graeme Kinross-Smith
by Mike Ladd
Prepare the Cabin for Landing by Alan Wearne
Griffith Review 38: The Novella Project edited by Julianne Schultz
by Imogen Smith