How to resolve AdBlock issue? 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!
Full Contents
Australian History
AUSTRALIANS, VOLUME 3: FLAPPERS TO VIETNAM by by Thomas Keneally
Biography
SUSAN SONTAG: A Biography by by Daniel Schreiber, trans. David Dollenmayer. & Susan Sontag by by Jerome Boyd Maunsell
Australian History
A Forger’s Progress: The Life of Francis Greenway by by Alasdair McGregor
by Paul Brunton
Military History
THE NASHOS’ WAR: AUSTRALIA’S NATIONAL SERVICEMEN AND VIETNAM by by Mark Dapin
Military History
THE DARKEST DAYS: THE TRUTH BEHIND BRITAIN’S RUSH TO WAR, 1914 by by Douglas Newton
by Nigel Biggar
Economics
HARD TIMES: THE DIVISIVE TOLL OF THE ECONOMIC SLUMP by by Tom Clark and Anthony Heath
by Adrian Walsh
Poetry
The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Bilingual Edition by edited and translated by Stephen Sartarelli
Literary Studies
The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses by by Kevin Birmingham
by Mark Byron
Fiction
The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish by by Dido Butterworth, edited and introduced by Tim Flannery
by Fiona Gruber
Australian History
Emporium: Selling the Dream in Colonial Australia by by Edwin Barnard
Australian History
The Invincibles: New Norcia’s Aboriginal Cricketers 1879–1906 by by Bob Reece
Politics
Northern Lights : The Positive Policy Example of Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Norway by by Andrew Scott
History
The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon: Toward a Political History of Madness by by Laure Murat
by James Dunk
Language
Furphies and Whizz-Bangs: ANZAC slang from the Great War by by Amanda Laugesen
by John Arnold
History
The Rich:From Slaves to Super-Yachts: A 2,000-Year History by by John Kampfner
Journals
Offset No. 14 by edited by Angela Hryc, Hilal Kirmizi, and Anastasios Zaganidis
by Jessica Au