"Reflections in Glass" is an important book for anyone seeking to understand the background to the current world Anglican crisis, as well as the more localised disputes that erupt from time to time between Australian Anglicans.

The contrast between the two Leipzigs (during and after the Cold War) expresses the tension that is brilliantly exploited at many levels in Nicholas Shakespeare’s new novel, a tender work that explores brutality. It deals ...

Writing of cinematographer Damien Parer’s untimely death in 1944, war correspondent Chester Wilmot paid tribute to him as ‘a fine man as well as a brilliant photographer. He made the camera speak as no other man I’ve ever ...

Finally, it seems that honesty is what Kroll and Rowland are after. Of course, theorists could argue that, in poetry, honesty is the most deceitful pose. But insofar as these collections represent their views, it seems ...

In "Across the Magic Line: Growing up in Fiji", Patricia Page comes full circle, returning with her sister Gay after an absence of fifty years to the enchanted islands of their childhood, reliving their memories and examining ...

Crime fiction offers various pleasures but rarely those of innovation, and that is the case with these three very different books from three veterans of the genre — familiar pleasures. "Degrees of Connection" is a police ...

April Bestsellers 2003, and Subscription Form page of this issue.

This article is a review of two new novels by Catherine Padmore and Charlotte Wood.

This book’s strengths and weaknesses are on a big scale, and that alone makes Finlayson a writer worth watching. The portrait of the Territory — an utterly different universe from the Australia most of us know — is ...

Edmund Campion’s review of "Daniel Mannix: Priest and Patriot" (as it was first titled) appeared in the July 1983 issue of ABR. Dove Communications was the original publisher.