Browsing No 244 - September 2002 by Issue Date
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Tactical Omissions. "Deliverance: The Inside Story of East Timor's Fight for Freedom", by Don Greenlees and Robert Garran. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)The account of the events surrounding East Timor’s liberation from Indonesia by News Limited journalists Don Greenlees and Robert Garran is subtitled ‘The inside story of East Timor’s fight for freedom’. Dealing as it does ... -
Two Witnesses. "An Intruder's Guide to East Arnhem Land", by Andrew McMillan and "Yorro Yorro: Spirit of the Kimberley", by Mowaljarlai and Jutta Malnic. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)The reissue by Magabala of the late David Mowaljarlai and Jutta Malnic’s "Yorro Yorro" coincided with the publication of Andrew McMillan’s "An Intruder’s Guide to East Arnhem Land". These radically different books address ... -
Long Night's Journey. "Journey to the Inner Mountain: In the Desert with St Anthony", by James Cowan. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)James Cowan has a gift for writing about shadowy figures. His previous book, "Francis: A Saint’s Way", probed the many myths that have gathered over the centuries around the figure of Francis of Assisi. In many ways, Cowan’s ... -
Post-Human Futures. "Transcension", by Damien Broderick and "Schild's Ladder", by Greg Egan. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)Since 1990 Australian science fiction (SF) has undergone an extraordinary renaissance. These new books by Broderick and Egan, "Transcension" and "Schild’s Ladder", are at the genre’s cutting edge. Both writers attempt to ... -
Paper Trail. "Timepieces", by Drusilla Modjeska. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)According to the back cover of "Timepieces", Drusilla Modjeska’s latest collection of essays represents an attempt to follow the ‘paper trail’ of her own life, after ‘nearly thirty years of nosing in other people’s ... -
Diary.
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)In this item, Meredith Curnow reflects upon the five years she spent working on the Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF). -
Suffering in a Golden Age. "Yenni: A Life Between Worlds", by Eugenia Jenny Williams. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)Eugenia Williams's appealing memoir of a Czech–Hungarian family spans many defining moments of twentieth-century European history. In the final days of World War II, the author and her family were part of the civilian ... -
October Highlights.
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)This item contains higlights for the October 2002 issue of the 'Australian Book Review'. -
Was Sisyphus a Pusher? "What's Wrong with Addiction?", by Helen Keane and "Modernising Australia's Drug Policy", by Alex Wodak and Timothy Moore. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)The current legal régime for the regulation of drugs has many unintended consequences. One of its minor tragedies is the number of thinkers and activists whose valuable energies are thus diverted to the Sisyphean labour ... -
Advances, Contents, Letters, Imprints and Contributors.
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School of Hard Knocks. "The Learning Curve", by John Foulcher and "Life Given", by Graeme Hetherington and "History: Selected Poems, 1978-2000", by Michael Sharkey. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)John Foulcher’s "The Learning Curve" is a sequence of poems set in a fictional school called Saint Joseph’s. Using mainly dramatic monologues, Foulcher paints a depressing picture of a school where professional disappointments, ... -
Ideological Moments. [poem]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)This item is a poem by Peter Porter. -
Sparkle in Microhistory. "Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York", by Donna Merwick. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)On one level, this is the story of Adriaen Janse van Ilpendam, a Dutch schoolmaster and notary based in the small settlement of Beverwijck, later known as Albany, who hanged himself on 12 March 1686, seventeen days after ... -
Hard Labour. "Franca: My Story", by Franca Arena and "Speaking for Myself Again: Four Years with Labor and Beyond", by Cheryl Kernot. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)If Cheryl Kernot writes another book — and if "Speaking for Myself Again" is anything to go by, you had better hope she doesn’t — her publishers should at the very least make sure the punctuation police do their job. It ... -
Fear of Drowning. "In Sunshine or in Shadow", by Martin Flanagan. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)In this ‘memoir about going home’, home is where the heart is. The book’s principal locale is the Tasmania of Martin Flanagan’s Irish Catholic small-town childhood. But ‘home’, in this narrative, isn’t just a place: it’s ... -
Winning Stories in the Kimberley. "We Won the Victory: Aborigines and Outsiders on the North-West Coast of the Kimberley", by Ian Crawford. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)Ian Crawford's title announces his book’s challenge: to provide a view of Kimberley history that builds on the foundations of Aboriginal oral tradition. The title is taken from Aboriginal storyteller Sam Woolagoodjah’s ... -
Lost Wings in Angel Rock. "Angel Rock", by Darren Williams. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)"Angel Rock" revolves around the story of lost children. First, the two Ferry boys go missing, then a sixteen-year-old girl from the town. The anti-hero detective, Gibson, is also a lost child seeking answers to a crime ... -
Postcards from Mark. "Eddie Gilbert: The True Story of an Aboriginal Cricketing Legend", by Mike Coleman and Ken Edwards and "Mark Waugh: The Biography", by James Knight. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)Browsers will probably find these chronicles of Eddie Gilbert and Mark Waugh snuggled close together in bookshops . Both, after all, are biographies of Australian cricketers, written by journalists, and published by firms ... -
Not Angels but Anglicans. "Anglicanism in Australia: A History", by Bruce Kaye (ed). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)For most of Australia’s European history, the Church of England has been the largest denomination. In 1841 its adherents represented sixty per cent of the population; in 1901 the numbers were still close to forty per cent. ... -
The Last Place to Love. "The Bread with Seven Crusts", by Susan Temby. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)"The Bread with Seven Crusts" is primarily the story of the relationship between Giuseppe Lazaro, an Italian POW, and Eddy Nash, an Australian nurse. It is an earnest book that tackles some rich and interesting themes. You ...