March 2015, no. 369

March 2015, no. 369

Welcome to our March issue – a packed one with contributions from about 50 Australian writers, several of them new to the magazine. These include distinguished journalist-editor Luke Slattery, who writes about Volume 3 of Thomas Keneally’s ‘Australians’ and finds it somewhat wanting. David McCooey offers a spirited defence of John Kinsella. Novelist Andrea Goldsmith writes about two new books on Susan Sontag – and likes one of them. We publish the first in a new series of Reading Australia essays on key Australian texts: Kerryn Goldsworthy revisits Jessica Anderson’s much-loved novel ‘Tirra Lirra by the River’. Then we have reviews by people like Glyn Davis, Joan Beaumont, Nigel Biggar, Jane Sullivan – and much more!

AUSTRALIANS, VOLUME 3: FLAPPERS TO VIETNAM by by Thomas Keneally

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A SHORT HISTORY OF RICHARD KLINE by Amanda Lohrey

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SACK by John Kinsella

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SUSAN SONTAG: A Biography by by Daniel Schreiber, trans. David Dollenmayer. & Susan Sontag by by Jerome Boyd Maunsell

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Beyond Black and White: My Life in Music by by Roger Woodward

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CAN’T AND WON’T by by Lydia Davis

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A Forger’s Progress: The Life of Francis Greenway by by Alasdair McGregor

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Michael Farrell is Poet of the Month

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A Companion to the Australian Media edited by Bridget Griffen-Foley

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Kerryn Goldsworthy on 'Tirra Lirra by the River' by Jessica Anderson for Reading Australia

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THE WRITING LIFE by David Malouf

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Clade by James Bradley

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ANZAC: THE UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY by by Carolyn Holbrook

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THE MENZIES ERA: THE YEARS THAT SHAPED MODERN AUSTRALIA by by John Howard

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News from the Editor's Desk - March 2015

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Letters to the Editor - March 2015

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THE NASHOS’  WAR: AUSTRALIA’S NATIONAL SERVICEMEN AND VIETNAM by by Mark Dapin

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THE DARKEST DAYS: THE TRUTH BEHIND BRITAIN’S RUSH TO WAR, 1914 by by Douglas Newton

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'The Things the Mind Sees Happen' a new poem by Belinda Rule

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'Net' a new poem by Alice Allan

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'Weight' a new poem by A. Frances Johnson

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'Pope Pinocchio's Angels' a new poem by Michael Farrell

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HARD TIMES: THE DIVISIVE TOLL OF THE ECONOMIC SLUMP by by Tom Clark and Anthony Heath

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Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life by by William Christie

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Women in Dark Times by by Jacqueline Rose

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The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Bilingual Edition by edited and translated by Stephen Sartarelli

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The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses by by Kevin Birmingham

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The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish by by Dido Butterworth, edited and introduced by Tim Flannery

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JOHN OLSEN: AN ARTIST’S LIFE by by Darleen Bungey

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Bill: The Life of William Dobell by by Scott Bevan

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Order and Variation: Robert Jacks by by Kirsty Grant

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Emporium: Selling the Dream in Colonial Australia by by Edwin Barnard

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Collected Poems by by Mark Strand

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The Invincibles: New Norcia’s Aboriginal Cricketers 1879–1906 by by Bob Reece

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Northern Lights : The Positive Policy Example of Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Norway by by Andrew Scott

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Paul Hasluck: A Life by by Geoffrey Bolton

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Poiesis: Manufacturing in Classical Athens by by Peter Acton

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The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon: Toward a Political History of Madness by by Laure Murat

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Essays and Reviews 1959–2002 by by Bernard Williams

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Furphies and Whizz-Bangs: ANZAC slang from the Great War by by Amanda Laugesen

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The Anchoress by by Robyn Cadwallader

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Oddfellows by by Nicholas Shakespeare

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A Madras Miasma by by Brian Stoddart

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Revolution by by Russell Brand

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The Rich:From Slaves to Super-Yachts: A 2,000-Year History by by John Kampfner

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Westerly 59:2 by edited by Delys Bird and Tony Hughes-d’Aeth

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Axis, Book 1: ‘Areal’ by by a.j. carruthers

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Offset No. 14 by edited by Angela Hryc, Hilal Kirmizi, and Anastasios Zaganidis

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