Browsing No 246 - November 2002 by Issue Date
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Private Masterpiece. [poem]
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Homer and the Holocaust. [essay]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)Andrea Goldsmith's La Trobe University Essay discusses depictions of terror and terrorism, notions of victimisation and perpetration, and the Holocaust in literature and visual arts. -
The Fall. "The Insatiable Desire of Injured Love" by Sally Morrison. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)Sally Morrison's new novel is the story of 27-year-old Renata Ochiltree's recovery from a fall in Victoria's Cathedral Ranges in 1973 - a fiction based on Morrison's own accident in the same year and place. Stepping out ... -
Watercolour Memories. "A Pavane for Another Time" by Bernard Smith. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)It's a Proustian title, or at any rate a Powellian one, that Bernard Smith has produced for this memoir of his life in the long-ago 1940s, and, yes, there on the cover is Anthony Powell's hero, Poussin. That's doubly ... -
Styx and Stones. "The Many-Coloured Land: A Return to Ireland" by Christopher Koch. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)There are some enticing vignettes in Christopher Koch's new travel memoir. It is hard, however, to work out what story Koch wants to tell in this book about Ireland and the Irish. If "The Many-Coloured Land" has a story ... -
Freud in London. "i am the voice left from drinking: the Models - from the 'burbs to 'Barbados' and beyond" by James Freud. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)Freud has left the music business and alcoholism for a sober career in advertising. Several times he acknowledges his wife and children for providing the incentive: it's that kind of a redemption tale. Whether Freud's book ... -
Rooming with Lillian. "Lillian Roxon: Mother of Rock" by Robert Milliken. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)Martin Amis's encapsulation of biography is that it should convey a sense of what it would be like to spend some time alone in a room with the subject. Robert Milliken begins his story of Australian journalist and rock ... -
Palace Inventory (Partial): Sleeping Beauty. [poem]
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What's So Special? "The Federation Mirror" by Ross Fitzgerald and "Johannes Bjelke-Peterson: The Lord’s Premier" by Rae Wear. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)Wear's book should be the starting point for readers wanting a balanced overview of Bjelke-Peterson's career. Derek Townsend published his book little more than halfway through his premiership; Alan Metcalfe was obsequiously ... -
New Standards in a Glorious Grammar. "The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language" by Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum (eds). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)Kate Burridge has read many excellent accounts of the English language over the years, but this recent publication by Cambridge University Press is by far the most impressive. In fact, "The Cambridge Grammar of the English ... -
The Great Riddle. "The Naked Fish: An Autobiography of Belief" by Ian Hansen. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)Given life's pluriform character, any autobiography is inevitably selective: but this 'autobiography of belief' is more open to the variety of experience than many other writings of the self. The domestic plays a great ... -
Revolution to Resistance. "The French Revolution 1789–1799" by Peter McPhee and "France Since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society" by Charles Sowerwine. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)Peter McPhee and Charles Sowerwine, internationally renowned historians of modern France, are both professors of history at the University of Melbourne. Their latest books are what might be termed generalist surveys that ... -
Illusory Stream. "Jazz Tango" by Tracy Ryan. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)The setting is a dirty, Blakean London, in the new millennium, where bicycles that cannot be unchained are bent and broken instead. Our ingénue, Jas, an Australian expatriate, tries to make her way as a French translator ... -
Isles of Unknowing. "American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony, 1839–1850" by Cassandra Pybus and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)One of the pleasures of reading "American Citizens, British Slaves" is its invitation to think about writing. It asks us to consider the need of prisoners to maintain, and later restore, normal relations with one's self ... -
Girl Power Besting the Net. "Girl Heroes: The New Force in Popular Culture" by Susan Hopkins. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)"Girl Heroes" is a book that meditates deeply on the question of the image and objectification, and on what's at stake in the Nietzschean ideal of aesthetic subjectivity, a realm in which the divisions between illusion and ... -
Ikea Towers. "Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order" by Ken Booth and Tim Dunne (eds) and "Terror: A Meditation on the Meaning of September 11" by John Carroll. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)These two books represent strikingly different responses to the events of September 11; indeed, in some respects, they encompass radically divergent human reactions to tragedy of any sort. "The Worlds in Collision" collection ... -
Bite Back. "Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice (Second Edition)" by Geoffrey Robertson. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)Geoffrey Robertson's new edition of his magisterial "Crimes Against Humanity" demonstrates exactly why popular culture in the murderous twentieth century opted for a "Seven Samurai" (or "Magnificent Seven") version of ... -
Stolen Youth. "Nicky Barr, an Australian Air Ace: A Story of Courage and Adventure" by Peter Dornan and "Catalina Dreaming: Rescues, Exciting Missions, and Other Stories" by Andrew McMillan. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)These are two quite different books about two quite different aspects of Australia's involvement in the air war of 1939–45. Andrew McMillan, in "Catalina Dreaming", describes in an effective, episodic manner what the war ... -
New Perspectives on the Frontier Wars. "The Australian Frontier Wars 1788–1838" by John Connor. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)In the aftermath of the ideological jousts between Henry Reynolds and Keith Windschuttle about the level of violence on the colonial frontier, a new book has appeared that tackles the issue from a fresh perspective. The ... -
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