Browsing No 261 - May, 2004 by Title
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725 Bases of Power. "The Sorrows of Empire" by Chalmers Johnson. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)Chalmers Johnson, who began his career in the US Navy and became a consultant to the CIA, is one of the most respected American experts on East Asia and international affairs. Over the past few years, he has emerged as a ... -
Advances, Contents, Letters, Contributors and Imprints.
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Against the Clock. "The Measure of Success: A Personal Perspective" by Ron Clarke and "Cathy: Her Own Story" by Cathy Freeman (with Scott Gullan) [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)Clarke has chosen to write his story without the aid of a ‘ghost’; in Scott Gullan, Cathy has found a writer who seems to have captured her mood swings and hopes and fears, the ‘panic’ and ‘confusion’ that at times threatened ... -
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. -
Archetypal Landscapes. "The White Earth" by Andrew McGahan. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)What McGahan’s many admirers will make of "The White Earth" is not clear. Those expecting a novel that continues to explore the sorts of territory marked out in his earlier novels may well be unsettled by the novel’s uneasy ... -
Batmania. "Bright Planet" by Peter Mews. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)"Bright Planet" is a wry, laconic book; bold, entertaining and slightly mannered. Mews’s vocabulary is vivid and his epithets at times startlingly original. It is a kind of sustained exercise in bravado; Mews is playing ... -
Bestsellers/Subscription.
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)April Bestsellers 2003, and Subscription Form page of this issue. -
Blurring Boundaries. "Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality" by Barbara Creed. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)Barbara Creed’s "Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality" intersects with the present preoccupation with new global media forms and their implications for how we think about sex and the public. While the differences within ... -
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 ... -
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’ ... -
Closed Chat. "The Multicultural Experiment: Immigrants, Refugees and National Identity" by Leonie Kramer (ed.) [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)These eleven papers are the product of the most recent of the Boston, Melbourne, Oxford Conversazione on Culture and Society, which, Leonie Kramer tells us in her brief introduction, has succeeded in attracting 'leading ... -
Coaldrake's Mission. "Japan From War To Peace: The Coaldrake Records 1939-1956" by William H. Coaldrake (ed) [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)Some readers will approach this book as a memoir of Frank and Maida Coaldrake, some as travelogue, some as ethnography. Specialist readers may be stimulated to imagine other research projects going beyond the documents ... -
Difficult [poem]
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The Great Obituarist. "Art & Life" by Philip Jones. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)This article is a review of "Art and Life", the memoir of Philip Jones. -
Iatrogenic Fictions. "The List of All Answers" by Peter Goldsworthy. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)Peter Goldsworthy’s "Collected Stories" is the work of an accomplished and established writer, perhaps better known for his librettos and his six novels, the most recent of which, "Three Dog Night" (2003), has met with ... -
Imperfect Days. "Levin's God" by Roger Wells. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)"Levin's God" is a two-part epic. The first half is a take on the Australian rock scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Singer-guitarist Levin Hoffman, on the strength of what people say are ‘great songs’, rapidly takes ... -
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 ... -
In the Grip of It All. [poem]
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A Life Enhancer. "The Diaries of Miles Franklin" by Paul Brunton (ed). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-05)Primarily, Paul Brunton’s source is the enormous archive of letters, manuscripts, reviews, notebooks and diaries that Franklin left to the Mitchell Library. Brunton has mined this archive with great sensitivity and fine ... -
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 ...