Browsing No 257 - December, 2003 / January, 2004 by Issue Date
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Memories of the Changing 'G'. "The Temple Down the Road" by Brian Matthews [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-11)"The Temple Down the Road" is a book of considerable enjoyment for those who have at some time or other succumbed to the boisterous charms of the MCG. It is a meander through the history of the site and the stadium, a ... -
Orwell's Legacies. "Orwell's Australia: From Cold War to Culture Wars" by Dennis Glover. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-12)In recent years, Orwell’s legacy has been examined and re-examined, with many trying to unravel his words and deeds to discover their true meaning. The left and right have invoked and condemned Orwell, who expressed ... -
Advances, Contents, Letters, Contributors and Imprints.
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Tropical Dreams. "Geckos and Moths" by Patricia Johnson and "Forever in Paradise" by Apelu Tielu. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-12)"Geckos and Moths" deals incisively, yet without histrionics, with the unravelling of a dream and the fraying of an Australian colonial fiction. "Forever in Paradise" is, on the other hand, unable to deal realistically ... -
Borrowed Glamour. "The Boy" by Julian Davies. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-12)It is Davies’s failure to think his way fully into the material that keeps "The Boy" middling warm rather than hot. Erotic fiction, after all, is a kind of pastoral, and its demands on the imagination of the writer are ... -
Bestsellers / Subscription.
(Australian Book Review, 2003-12)This item is the 2003 Bestsellers and subscription page from this issue. -
Searching for Goya. "Goya" by Robert Hughes [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-12)For the tourist who knows little about Spain or Goya, Hughes’s account will serve. It rescues Goya from the Hollywood film "The Naked Maja" (1959), in which he had an affair with the Duchess of Alba, played by Ava Gardner. ... -
Diary
(Australian Book Review, 2003-12)This is a collection of diary entries during the author's research into her book on the social reformer Hephzibah Menuhin. -
Aung Myint.
(Australian Book Review, 2003-12)Twenty-one years in jail for writing and distributing a pamphlet. This was the sentence that the Burmese junta’s military court handed down to Aung Myint, a Burmese poet, journalist and member of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National ... -
Surviving the Bearpit. "A Pasty-faced Nothing" by Mike Munro [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-12)I must confess I picked up this celebrity autobiography, complete with embossed cover and a price suggestive of a huge print run, without anticipation. I could not have been more wrong. Mike Munro’s excoriating and frank ... -
Still a Way to Go. "Australian Republicanism: A Reader" by Mark McKenna and Wayne Hudson (eds). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-12)As Mark McKenna and Wayne Hudson point out in their introduction to this anthology of writings, speeches and transcripts on the inglorious republic, there is no one single thing called ‘Australian republicanism’. The cause ... -
Best Children's Books [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-12)This work is a compilation of favourite children's books by Katharine England, Kaye Keck, Stella Lees, Pam Macintyre, Agnes Nieuwenhuizen, Judith Ridge and Margaret Robson Kett. -
Funny Inside Feelings. "The Uncyclopedia" by Gideon Haigh and "Names From Here and Far: The New Holland Dictionary of Names" by William T.S. Noble. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-12)There is a fundamental problem with Noble's book. Nowhere are the principles of inclusion and exclusion explained in any way. The title of the book, despite the fact that ‘New Holland’ is also the name of the publisher, ... -
Not Quite Normal. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-12)This article is a review of various Young Adult Non-Fiction books, including: Bronwyn Blake, "Julia My Sister"; Jane Carroll, "Thambaroo"; Warren Flynn "Return Ticket"; Doug MacLeod, "Tumble Turn"; James Moloney, "Black ... -
Hardy Times. "Frank Hardy and the Literature of Commitment" by Paul Adams and Christopher Lee (eds) [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-12)Because Hardy's work is largely out of print, this collection seems premature. Though Vulgar Press has recently republished Jean Devanny’s "Sugar Heaven" (1936) and Dorothy Hewett’s "Bobbin Up"(1959), it remains to be seen ... -
Abundant Pleasures. "The Diaries of Donald Friend, Volume 2" by Paul Hetherington (ed). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-12)With the swift appearance of a second volume of Friend's diaries, a new editor wrestles afresh with the many challenges embedded in Friend’s rich literary legacy. Hetherington offers here a spirited and overdue attempt to ... -
Summer Reading [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-12)This work is a review of several recent publications, including: Mirka Mora, "Love and Clutter"; Guy Noble, "The Music Explorer"; Frank van Straten "Tivoli"; Jan Fook, Susan Hawthorn and Renate Klein (eds), "Cat Tales: The ... -
Lost Edens. "Other Gravities" by Kevin Gillam and "A Tasmanian Paradise Lost" by Graeme Hetherington [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-12)Hetherington's poems are black poems in terms of their fixation with dark histories and fascinating compulsions. As the final poem concedes, the investigatory re-imaginings may be bleak but they provide solace, too — a ... -
Wagon Wheels. "30 Days: A Month at the Heart of Blair's War" by Peter Stothard. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-12)This book is as beguilingly English as a Fortnum & Mason picnic hamper. Peter Stothard (a former editor of "The Times" and current editor of the "Times Literary Supplement") spent a month inside 10 Downing Street reporting ... -
Mind Hoards. "Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way to Nationhood (Quarterly Essay 11)" by Germaine Greer and "Made in England: Australia's British Inheritance (Quarterly Essay 12)" by David Malouf. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-12)With Greer proposing that white Australians embrace Aboriginality, that ‘the gubba move towards the blackfella’, and with Malouf working to the title "Made in England: Australia’s British Inheritance", one might expect, ...