Brian Matthews
My father, Brian Matthews, who has died of cancer aged eighty-five, was a contributor to Australian Book Review for forty years. He enthusiastically supported the journal from the early days of its re-establishment in 1978 under the editorship of John McLaren. He wrote for it prolifically under later editors – never more so than under the current editorship.
... (read more)West Island: Five twentieth-century New Zealanders in Australia by Stephanie Johnson
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Half the Perfect World: Writers, dreamers and drifters on Hydra, 1955–1964 by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell
by Brian Matthews •
Antipodean Perspective: Selected Writings of Bernard Smith edited by Rex Butler and Sheridan Palmer
by Brian Matthews •
A Führer for a Father: The Domestic Face of Colonialism by Jim Davidson
by Brian Matthews •
Originally published in German, Albrecht Dümling’s The Vanished Musicians: Jewish refugees in Australia (Peter Lang), a fascinating compendium of Jewish musicians who found refuge in Australia in the 1930s and 1940s, is now available in Australian Diana K. Weekes’s excellent translation ...
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