Browsing No 260 - April, 2004 by Issue Date
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High Praise. "Australian Constitutional Landmarks" by H.P. Lee and George Winterton (eds). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-04)Even if there is a little hyperbole, the book demonstrates in a readable way how, when it has faced major tests concerning the welfare of the Australian Commonwealth, the High Court has usually come down on the side of ... -
Nothing But the Truth. "Reflections on Life, Love and Society" by Nicolas-Sebastian Roch de Chamfort (ed and trans Douglas Parmee). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-04)Although this selection of nearly 500 pieces is necessarily fragmentary, Parmée has arranged the texts in such a way as to suggest certain preoccupations. By turns witty, cynical and wise, despairing and hopeful, Chamfort’s ... -
The Tick of the Biological Clock. "The Philosopher's Doll" by Amanda Lohrey. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-04)Many novels display some of the characteristics that encourage readability: consistency of theme, soundness of structure, steadiness of pace, depth of characterisation and elegance of style. In "The Philosopher’s Doll", ... -
Robin Lovejoy
(Australian Book Review, 2004-04)This article describes the Robin Lovejoy collection at the National Library of Australia. -
Juanita's Fate. "Killing Juanita: A True Story of Murder and Corruption" by Peter Rees. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-04)Like any good biography, "Killing Juanita" is the story of its time as well as of the main protagonist. The book provides a compelling picture of what inner-city Sydney was like around the Cross and Woolloomooloo. The cops ... -
Sites of Resistance. "Very Big Journey: My Life As I Remember It" by Hilda Jarman Muir. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-04)"Very Big Journey" is Hilda Jarman Muir’s story. Nevertheless, a good deal of the book’s joy lies in the author’s hearty self-assertion, and how this seems to have been enabled by a broader indigenous community. -
The Zero Pilot [poem]
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Advances, Contents, Letters, Contributors and Imprints.
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Stylish Début. "The Ghost Writer" by John Harwood. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-04)John Harwood, who is the son of the late Gwen Harwood, has had a long career as a poet and critic leading up to "The Ghost Writer", and it shows. First novels don’t come much more stylish than this one. -
Say Marmalade. "A Brief History of the Smile" by Angus Trumble [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-04)As one who has always envied but never enjoyed the Germanic Sitzfleisch — the scholar’s ability to lodge the body firmly and indefinitely at its task — I think that I can see its fruits in this book. Mind you, it cannot ... -
Eating Revelation. "Inside Out: An Autobiography" by Robert Adamson. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-04)Aptly, John Ashbery has described Robert Adamson as ‘one of Australia’s national treasures’. Since the late 1960s Adamson has been a vital presence in the renaissance of Australian poetry, both in his own work and as an ... -
A Cautionary Tale. "Off Course: From Public Place To Marketplace At Melbourne University" by John Cain and John Hewitt. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-04)Should the recent turbulent history of one university in one state of Australia matter to us? Some of the critics of Cain and Hewitt's "Off Course" think not. But there is a residual, stubborn, Robert Menzies-inspired ... -
Arbitrary Horrors. "Extraction of Arrows" by Kathryn Lomer [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-04)Kathryn Lomer's "Extraction of Arrows" is a fine first book. It is more unified than most, but with a varied enough poetic base to make one interested in the poems that Lomer will write in the future. Its essential feature ... -
Oily Types. "The Haha Man" by Sandy McCutcheon. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-04)"The Haha Man" by Sandy McCutcheon is a rollicking good read that highlights the refugee plight without a whiff of the lecture hall. -
Romanov Capers. "Anastasia: A Novel" by Colin Falconer. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-04)Readers who are so pedantic as to be irritated by details beyond plot, such as sloppy writing or a lack of subtlety in the characterisation, may find the racy twists and turns an inadequate compensation. This novel’s ... -
PEN: Asiye Guzel Zeybek
(Australian Book Review, 2004-04)Asiye’s case attracted wide interest, particularly from International PEN’s Writer in Prison Committee and Sweden’s Lawyers without Borders. Extraordinarily, "Asiye’s Story: One Woman’s Journey from Torture to Triumph", ... -
Bestellers / Subscription
(Australian Book Review, 2004-04)This item is the March 2004 Bestsellers / Subsciption page from this issue. -
Waves of Indifference. "Sending them Home: Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference (Quarterly Essay 13)" by Robert Manne (with David Corlett). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-04)Some time before the sun set on the British empire, ‘British justice’ took on an ironic meaning. In the colonies, we knew it was a charade, like that doled out to ‘Breaker’ Morant during the Boer War. The dice are loaded ... -
Monsters and Hegemons. "Benign or Imperial? Reflections on American Hegemony" by Owen Harries [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-04)Harries is, of course, reflecting in this book an important and growing division between realist and neo-conservative thinkers that has shaken up the US foreign policy community. In Australia’s smaller, less ideological — ... -
Looking At Both Sides. "The Cruise of the Janet Nichol Among the South Sea Islands: A Diary By Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson" by Roslyn Jolly (ed), "Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings" by Roger Robinson (ed) and "Albert Wendt and Pacific Literature: Circling the Void" by Paul Sharrad [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2004-04)Whether it's fate or mere coincidence, the life stories of the two most celebrated writers of the Pacific — Robert Louis Stevenson and Albert Wendt — dovetail together on the small tropical island of Upolu in Western Samoa.