Browsing No 261 - May, 2004 by Issue Date
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Carlton Forever. "Carlton: A History" by Peter Yule (ed). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)When is a suburb not a suburb? When it is an inner-urban locale with a distinctive café culture, its own postcode and football team, but no town hall. And here’s another: how did an Old English word meaning ‘churl’s farm’ ... -
Anglican Wars. "Reflections in Glass: Trends and Tensions in the Contemporary Anglican Church" by Peter Carnley [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)"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. -
Thinking Images. "How Images Think" by Ron Burnett. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)Although we may be aware of the increasing cultural presence of images, less apparent are the changes in how we might think about them. In the new media landscape, images are no longer just representations or interpretations ... -
Love and the Wall. "Snowleg" by Nicholas Shakespeare. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)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 ... -
The Litigation Myth. "Litigation: Past and Present" by Wilfrid Priest and Sharyn Roach Anleu (eds) and "Slapping on the Writs: Defamation, Developers and Community Activism" by Brian Walters. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)Despite the methodological issues inherent in research into the history of litigation, the findings of the contributors in "Litigation: Past and Present" are nonetheless significant and serve to undermine contemporary ... -
Standing Up. "Damien Parer's War" by Neil McDonald. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)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 ... -
The Loss of Tongue and Tradition. "The Hmong of Australia: Culture and Diaspora" by Nicholas Tapp and Gary Yia Lee (eds.) [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)This book is mostly based on proceedings at an anthropology conference at the ANU in 2002. It 'aims to bring knowledge of the Hmong to a wider public and contribute to the understanding of these people'. The sections by ... -
Thinking Out Loud. "The Mother Workshops and Other Poems" by Jeri Kroll and "Shadows at the Gate" by Robyn Rowland [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)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 ... -
Straight Reporting. "The Man Who Died Twice: The Life and Adventures of Morrison of Peking" by Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)This article is a review of "The Man Who Died Twice: The Life and Adventures of Morrison of Peking" by Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin. George Ernest 'Chinese' Morrison (1862-192) was a photojournalist and well-known ... -
A Luminous Cocoon. "Across the Magic Line: Growing Up in Fiji" by Patricia Page. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)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 ... -
Sublime Cocktail. [gallery notes]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)This article is a summary of the "Sublime" exhibition at the National Library of Australia. -
In the Calaboose. "Blindside" by J.R. Carroll, "Degrees of Connection" by Jon Cleary, and "Earthly Delights" by Kerry Greenwood [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)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 ... -
Preserves and Presences. [journal review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)This article is a review of various current journals, including: Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke (eds), "Cultural Studies Review: Charlatans, 9:2"; Julianne Schultz (ed), "Griffith Review: Webs of Power, 2004:3"; Ian Britain ... -
Bestsellers/Subscription.
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)April Bestsellers 2003, and Subscription Form page of this issue. -
A Sense of the Past. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)This article is a review of Young Adult Non-Fiction, including: Robyn Annear, "Fly a Rebel Flag: The Battle at Eureka"; Dyan Blacklock illus. David Kennett, "The Roman Army"; Jacqui Grantford, "Shoes News"; and Karl ... -
Who Invented This Rule Anyway? "Sibyl's Cave" by Catherine Padmore and "The Submerged Cathedral" by Charlotte Wood. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)This article is a review of two new novels by Catherine Padmore and Charlotte Wood. -
PEN: Lam Khi Try
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)Lam Khi Try is a Cambodian journalist who wrote articles exposing corruption, illegal logging and political assassinations by the Cambodian government. He received a threatening letter from the Cambodian prime minister and ... -
Bronco Ride. "A Lot of Croc: An Urban Bush Legend" by Kate Finlayson. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)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 ... -
Staying Alive in Mary Street. "The Sparrow Garden" by Peter Skrzynecki [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)It is characteristic of Skrzynecki that he should locate such a crucial turning point in his life so precisely, naming the very street that led him to it. It is this impulse to map, to plot the coordinates of a life, that ... -
Troublesome Cleric. "Daniel Mannix: Wit and Wisdom" by Michael Gilchrist [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)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.