Browsing No 246 - November 2002 by Title
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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 ... -
Breezy Bell. "The Time of My Life" by John Bell. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)Autobiography inevitably involves some sense of reflection on, as well as selection from, the past; not merely a recital of factually affectless information. Australian theatrical producer, actor and company director John ... -
The Cabinet of Wins and A Racing Life. [poems]
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Drunk With Science. "Regardfully Yours: Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller" by R.W. Home et al. (eds). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)These letters open a window onto the pioneering world of nineteenth-century Australian science. Their interest is both personal and public. They bring under fresh scrutiny a complex personal story of aspiration and failure, ... -
Eschewing Jouissance. "Gender Trouble Down Under: Australian Masculinities" by David Coad and "From Camp to Queer: Remaking the Australian Homosexual" by Robert Reynolds. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)Although called "From Camp to Queer", this book is really about the early years of the gay liberation movement in Australia - from 1970 to 1974. In that sense, "From Camp to Gay" would have been more accurate; the Epilogue ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Hard Way. "From Eternity to Here: Memoirs of an Angry Priest" by John Hanrahan. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)For those who remember John Hanrahan as an incisive literary critic for "The Age", former editor of ABR, and literary commentator on the ABC, this biographical account, published posthumously, will have great poignancy. ... -
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. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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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 ... -
Lexical Memories. "Lexical Images: The Story of the Australian National Dictionary" by Bill Ramson. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)Reviewers often like to start with a simple statement of what a book is all about. In the present case, this is difficult, because there are two books within these covers. The first three chapters fit its subtitle, 'The ... -
Malodorous Melbourne. "The White Body of Evening" by A.L. McCann. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)'Australia is all an illusion. A trick with smoke and mirrors, performed by demagogues and balladeers.' So says Paul Walters, one of A.L. McCann's main characters in this black, sometimes bleak, but very readable tale of ... -
A Matter of Gravitas. "Don Bradman: Challenging the Myth" by Brett Hutchins and "Warne's World" by Louis Nowra. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-11)"Don Bradman" and "Warne's World" are two very different books, and in many ways they sit uneasily together - for a reviewer at least. But they reveal among other things why Warne, with Bradman-like gifts, does not occupy ... -
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 ... -
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 ...