Browsing No 244 - September 2002 by Issue Date
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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. ... -
Oiling the Mechanics of Racism. "Understanding Prejudice, Racism, and Social Conflict", by Martha Augoustinos and Katherine J. Reynolds (eds) and "The Social Psychology of Adolescence", by Patrick C.L. Heaven. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)Martha Augoustinos and Katherine J. Reynolds have edited an intellectually substantial collection of essays on a timely topic. The ease with which the perception of group difference can be cultivated and transformed into ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
September 11: A Symposium.
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)Post-September 11, in Australia, as in the USA, the ad hominem tactic has had a thorough workout, and the patriotism card is the most thumbed in the deck. As a consequence, it becomes increasingly difficult, even in our ... -
Islamic Variations. "Faithlines: Muslim Conceptions of Islam and Society", by Riaz Hassan. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)This book is a study of Muslims’ perceptions of religion and society. Among the related aspects it explores are self-image and gender relations in Islam. The study is a survey-type questionnaire, carried out in four Muslim ... -
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. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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). -
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 ... -
Advances, Contents, Letters, Imprints and Contributors.
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)This item features miscellaneous information from this issue. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...