Browsing No 251 - May, 2003 by Issue Date
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Back Chat. "Spooling Through: An Irreverent Memoir" by Tim Bowden. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)Anyone who remembers the amiable host of the ABC’s television show "Backchat", which he compèred for eight years from 1986, will not be surprised to learn that Tim Bowden has written a breezily readable memoir. Its pages ... -
Universal Nomads. "The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing" by Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs (eds) and "Venus in Transit: Australia's Women Travellers 1788-1930" by Douglas R.G. Sellick. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)In our Postmodern age, when everything travels and travel is a metaphor for everything, travel and travel writing have become the subject of intense scholarly interest and debate. Travel, once largely the domain of ... -
Mimesis of What? "Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History" by Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson and Alessio Cavallaro (eds). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)Many people regard cyberculture as the territory of boffins, sci-fi enthusiasts and 'itinerant wanderers', and inescapably limited to computer technology. However, the term is also applied to a field of research, one that ... -
No Promised Land. "Shanghai Dancing" by Brian Castro. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)If we lived in the kind of country - and there are some - where people not only chose their presidents but chose as leaders poets, philosophers and novelists, a new novel by Brian Castro would be a sensation, even a political ... -
Father Abraham. "Lincoln" by Thomas Keneally. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)Weidenfield & Nicholson were both wise and fortunate in their choice of Thomas Keneally to write a study of Abraham Lincoln for their "Lives" series. He in turn gifted them, and us, with a story that listens closely to ... -
Praying With Christopher Smart. [poem]
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An Intricate Dance. "Whatever the Gods Do: A Memoir" by Patti Miller. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)The intricate patterns woven into these descriptions of human interactions do serve to highlight the banality of some of Miller's reflections, dreams and her singing lessons, which she has chosen to bear the symbolic weight ... -
Surviving a Father. "Belonging: A Memoir" by Renée Goossens. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)Renée Goossens, born in 1940, is the youngest daughter of the composer and conductor Sir Eugene Goossens. Married three times, he had three daughters with Dorothy Millar, and two more with his second wife, and Renée's ... -
Vodka Odyssey. "Off The Rails" by Tim Cope and Chris Hatherly. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)Tim Cope and Chris Hatherly don’t so much ride from Moscow to Beijing as squabble their way across Siberia. The twenty-year-old Australians decide to take a year off and bicycle across Russia, Siberia and Mongolia. Just ... -
The Time Machine. [poem]
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A Big Boutique. "The Best Australian Essays 2002" by Peter Craven (ed). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)After only four annual volumes, "The Best Australian Essays" has reached the point where the law of increasing expectations begins to kick in. By now the series has done so much that we want it to do everything. Speaking ... -
'Down With Beauty! Long Live Death!' [poem]
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Advances, Contents, Letters, Imprints and Contributors.
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The Hollowing of the Middle Class. "The Experience of Middle Australia: The Dark Side of Economic Reform" by Michael Pusey. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)Is the great white middle class endangered in Australia? If it is, does it matter greatly? Michael Pusey answers 'Yes' on both counts. He argues that we are seeing a 'hollowing out of the middle'. If he is right, this ... -
Rampaging Rationalism. "Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason" by Val Plumwood. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)Val Plumwood, the author of a highly praised defence of eco-feminism, "Feminism and the Mastery of Nature", presents in this book a critique of 'rationalist culture' and explains why it harms nature as well as so many ... -
Phantom of the Prison. "Penal Populism and Public Opinion: Lessons From Five Countries" by Julian V. Roberts et al. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)This new book provides a valuable analysis of the recent trend toward punitive justice and the populist politics that has nurtured it in five English-speaking countries: the USA, Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand. ... -
Bestsellerdoom. "Warra Warra: A Ghost Story" by John Scott. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)This novel has a controlled opening, a reasonable tone. But soon control will not avail and the irrational will hold sway, though Scott will maintain a firm control over his plot, with developments and reversals proceeding ... -
Fraying Nerves. "The Hamilton Case" by Michelle de Kretser. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)"The Hamilton Case", Michelle de Kretser’s magnificent second novel, takes as its philosophical focus the opposition of forms of knowledge, but presumes from the outset that fiction knows more than the law does. Its modes ... -
Orchid Business. "Orchids of Australia" by John J. Riley and David P. Banks. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)This beautiful book showcases the botanical orchid illustrations of John Riley, a retired shearer whom some regard as Australia's finest living botanical illustrator. Riley started drawing Australian orchids in the 1970s, ... -
Bestsellers / Subscription.
(Australian Book Review, 2003-05)This item includes the April 2003 Bestsellers and the subscription page from this issue.