Browsing No 249 - March 2003 by Issue Date
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Angels of Breath. "Portrait in Skin" by Kevin Brophy" and "The Islanders" by Andrew Sant. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)There is a story that when the saxophonist John Coltrane remarked to his bandleader Miles Davis that he didn't know how to make his solos shorter, the trumpeter replied, 'Take the instrument out of your mouth'. Knowing ... -
Permed Days. "Air Guitar" by Anthony Griffis. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)The recent film "Garage Days" begins with budding rock star Freddy (Kick Gurry) enlivening sex with his girlfriend Tanya (Pia Miranda) with fantasies of singing an AC/DC number to adoring hordes. Anthony Griffis has a ... -
Endangered Species. "Australian Short Fiction: A History" by Bruce Bennett. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)This book has been much anticipated and desired. Now, when asked by anxious students for something to read on the Australian short story, I can finally make a satisfactory response. Of course, I would still want them to ... -
The Brightest of True Names: A Sketch Portrait of Fred Williams. [essay]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)For McCaughey, Fred Williams remains the brightest of the true names. Two decades after his death, his art has taken on an epic quality, the long struggle to realise fully the extremes and the norm of the Australian ... -
Dazzling Complexes. "After Electra: Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fiction" by Eden Liddelow. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)This book continues the conversation between psycholanalysis and literature, drawing on Klein, Kristeva, Deleuze and Guattari to frame the work of twentieth-century women writers in the psycho-pathology of their time. The ... -
Downmarket Derring-Do. "White Dog" by Peter Temple. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)"White Dog", an extract from which appeared in "Best Australian Stories 2002", is the fourth novel in the Jack Irish series. This time around our hero is called upon to find out whether the capricious, unstable artist ... -
Seeds in the Woods. "Barossa Food" by Angela Heuzenroeder and "The Market: Stories, History and Recipes from the Adelaide Central Market" by Catherine Murphy. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)Catherine Murphy’s "The Market" is not a major work in the way that "Barossa Food" is, but both books share a belief in placing recognition fair and square in specific communities and the lives of 'ordinary' people rather ... -
The Power of Omission. "Seeing the Centre: The Art of Albert Namitjira 1902-1959" by Alison French and "The Town Grew Up Dancing: The Life and Art of Wenten Rubunjta" by Wenten Rubuntja (with Jenny Green). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)French's book is full of conjunctions and anecdotes: about Namitjira's teacher and friend Rex Battarbee, about Hermannsburg, about alcohol, arrest and humiliation, about Albert's singing voice, which was admired by the ... -
Cogwheel and Blood. "Robert Klippel" by Deborah Edwards. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)Histories of Australian Art have usually been histories only of painting. So Robert Klippel's sculptures and drawings are too little known outside the world of ardent collectors and art museums. Yet they might be aesthetically ... -
University of Hamburger. "Academia Nuts" by Michael Wilding. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)Henry Lancaster lectures in English. Like Michael Wilding himself, Henry is a practitioner as well as a scholar and teacher. Henry considers expanding his repertoire to include a campus novel. Voicing 'the now outlawed ... -
Advances, Contents, Letters, Imprints and Contributors
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The Albertine Motif. "The French Tutor" by Judith Armstrong. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)The protagonist of Judith Armstrong's first novel, Emily King, is beautiful, blonde and bilingual, having spent several early years in Paris. As an undergraduate, she suffers disillusionment when her hopes for a burgeoning ... -
After Us the Savage God. "Charles Conder: The Last Bohemian" by Ann Galbally. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)Ann Galbally's splendid new biography of Conder evokes the various artistic and literary milieux between which this sad, beautiful man moved with ease - sleeping for weeks on other people's sofas, surviving on handouts, ... -
A First-Rate Gothic Man. "Creating a Gothic Paradise: Pugin at the Antipodes" by Brian Andrews. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)"Creating a Gothic Paradise" takes the form of a series of essays and exhaustive and extensively illustrated catalogue entries. An introduction to the subject by Pugin scholar Rosemary Hill is followed by several essays ... -
A Slick of Past. "Timedancing" by Jan Owen and "Medium Security" by Louise Wakeling. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)Jan Owen wrote many of the poems in this collection during a residency in Malaysia. There are poems about durians and salaks and mangosteens, fig trees and musk trees, night markets, mosquitoes and fireflies. The other ... -
Posthumous Poet. "Michael Dransfield: A Retrospective" by John Kinsella (ed). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)For those who grew up reading his dreamy, solipsistic sequences, Michael Dransfield met immediate needs. He expressed overtly the counter-cultural attitudes of the times, and portrayed the frustrations and elations of ... -
Art in Brief. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)This items provides brief reviews of "Elwyn Lynn: Metaphor + Texture" by Peter Pinson; "Ivor Hele: The Productive Artist" by Jane Hylton; "Wimmera: The Work of Philip Hunter" by Ashley Crawford; "Our Country: Australian ... -
Festival Days.
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)'What do women want?' Even if Sigmund Freud didn't have writers' festivals in mind when he framed his famous question, it is apt enough in the context of the many pleasant-faced, intelligent-looking, female ticket-holders ... -
Magic Moments. "Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic" by Simon During. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)During's discussion of magic lanterns, photography and film is extremely suggestive and stimulating, but at the same time it remains rather fragmentary: a series of suggestions, rather than a continuous argument. During ... -
Bestsellers / Subscription.
(Australian Book Review, 2003-03)This item outlines the February 2003 Bestsellers, subscription information from this issue, and 2002 Bestsellers.