February 2013, no. 348

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.

'Signs and portents:The outlook for America in Obama’s second term' by Morag Fraser

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The Burning Library: Great Novelists Lost and Found by Geordie Williamson

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Murdoch’s Pirates: Before the Phone Hacking, There Was Rupert’s Pay-TV Skullduggery by Neil Chenoweth

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J.M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing by J.C. Kannemeyer, translated by Michiel Heyns

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Street to Street by Brian Castro

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Brenda Niall: 'Ettie and Nettie'

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Alison Broinowski on Asian Australian fiction in the Asian Century

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Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D.T. Max

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News from the Editor's Desk

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Letters to the Editor

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Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life by Artur Domosławski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

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Norman Haire and the Study of Sex by Diana Wyndham

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The Best Australian Stories 2012 edited by Sonya Hartnett

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Great Western Highway: A Love Story (Capital, Volume One, Part Two) by Anthony Macris

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The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

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Darkness on the Edge of Town by Jessie Cole

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Whisky Charlie Foxtrot by Annabel Smith

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The Toe Tag Quintet: Five Novellas of Murder and Mayhem by Matthew Condon

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26 Views of the Starburst World: William Dawes at Sydney Cove 1788–91 by Ross Gibson

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The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume 3: 1926–1927 edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden

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Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother edited by William Shawcross

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Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature by Charles Rosen

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101 Contemporary Australian Artists edited by Kelly Gellatly

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Lincoln

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Honestly: Notes on Life by Nikki Gemmell

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People on Country: Vital Landscapes, Indigenous Futures edited by Jon Altman and Seán Kerins

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Fallout from Fukushima by Richard Broinowski

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'Fragile Pranks', a new poem by Emma Lew

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City by James Roy

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Black Spring by Alison Croggon

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On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell

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Walking Home by Simon Armitage

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The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine by Don Share and Christian Wiman

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Liquid Nitrogen by Jennifer Maiden

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Available Light by Graeme Kinross-Smith

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Prepare the Cabin for Landing by Alan Wearne

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Griffith Review 38: The Novella Project edited by Julianne Schultz

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History in the Making by J.H. Elliott

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'Life Cycle of the Eel', a new poem by Sarah Holland-Batt

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