Browsing No 256 - November, 2003 by Title
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Advances, Contents, Letters, Imprints and Contributors.
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Anything Goes. "Homecoming" by Adib Khan. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-11)"Homecoming" is a significant novel in terms of its author’s trajectory. A novel of ideas with a fully Australian focus, it moves him from the niche of slightly magical-realist Indian tales into the mainstream. It is bold, ... -
Bestsellers / Subscriptions.
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Biding Its Time. "The Man and the Map" by Alex Skovron. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-11)Alex Skovron has always been a clever poet, sometimes playfully so, more often seriously so. Skovron, who was born in Poland in 1948 and came to Australia, via Israel, in 1958, is steeped in the European intellectual ... -
A Blander Shade of Grey. "Seven Types of Ambiguity" by Elliot Perlman [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-11)We now seem to be producing large-scale, popular books that are not in themselves literary fiction, though they aspire to be and represent the efforts of people who care about literature. If you accept "Seven Types" as an ... -
Bobby Burns Is Late. "What Australia Means To Me" by Bob Carr and "Bob Carr: A Self-Made Man" by Andrew West and Rachel Morris [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-11)Not Since Henry Parkes has New South Wales had such a literary-minded premier as Bob Carr. Parkes published his own poems and wrote two earnest volumes of autobiography. Carr, so far, has tried his hand at a novel, a memoir ... -
The Charmed Circle. "Dancing With Strangers" by Inga Clendinnen. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-11)Anyone who heard Inga Clendinnen’s 1999 Boyer Lectures or who has listened to her in any other way will hear her voice clearly in this book: contemplative, reflective, warm, gently paced. "Dancing with Strangers" seems to ... -
The Crack in the Teacup: Reading Hilary Mantel. [essay]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-11)This essay is a discussion of Hilary's Mantel's writing, especially her recently-published memoir which tells of her childhood, her development into a writer and her battle with serious illness. -
Crying out for Integrity. "The Ethics of Economic Rationalism" by John Wright [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-11)Michael Pusey coined the term ‘economic rationalism’ in 1991 to refer to the narrow economic focus of many senior public servants in Canberra. These influential advisers were mostly classically trained economists who saw ... -
The Exceptional Optimist. "Positive" by David Menadue. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-11)Menadue is a charming storyteller, self-reflective and free of cant. He charts his uneven acceptance of his own homosexuality; the compartmentalisation of his life between work, family and sexuality; the exploration of sex ... -
Feisty Times. "Women on the Rocks: A Tale of Two Convicts" by Kristin Williamson. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-11)Early Sydney has beguiled many writers, and the latest to succumb is Kristin Williamson. She has combined an interest in the Rocks area with a self-confessed ‘obsession with our feisty female forebears’, and has produced ... -
Flexibrick. "The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets" by Geoff Page (ed). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-11)This article is a review of "The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets" by Geoff Page (ed). -
For Yette in a Red T-Shirt, Running [poem]
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A Frail Banner. "beautiful, unfinished" by M.T.C. Cronin [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-11)Like M.T.C. Cronin's earlier collections, "beautiful, unfinished" is characterised by a mixture of mystical awe and formal restraint. The collection is subtitled ‘PARABLE/SONG/CANTO/POEM’. As this suggests, it consists of ... -
Friend's Refresher. "Indonesian Destinies" by Theodore Friend [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-11)With its anecdotes, accessible writing and the depth and richness of the author’s knowledge and experience, "Indonesian Destinies" is an excellent book with which to broach the subject of Indonesia. For me, having explored ... -
A Headful of Details. "Black Kettle and Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia" by Geoffrey Blainey [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-11)Geoffrey Blainey is seventy-three years old and has published thirty-two books. Since his last book was a history of the world, one might have assumed that he had reached the end of his career. But he is not done yet. He ... -
In On the Act. "Don't Tell Me, Show Me: Directors Talk About Acting" by Adam Macaulay. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-11)Macaulay has assembled a cast of notable directors in theatre, film and television to give advice to new actors. Inevitably, there is repetition and some ‘thinking aloud’ rambling. It is clear that Macaulay has heavily ... -
In Search of Common Ground. "The West and China Since 1500" by John S. Gregory [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-11)Jack Gregory has devoted much of his long career in China studies to teaching and studying the ways in which the West and China have interrelated. He is well qualified to write on the subject. Classes that Gregory has given ... -
Information for Beginners. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-11)This article is a review of various Children's Reference Books, including: Andrew Langley, "Oxford First Book of Space"; "On The Move: An Encyclopedia of Transport"; Linda Pitkin, "Journey Under The Sea"; Barbara Taylor, ... -
J.M. Coetzee [commentary]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-11)According to Mario Vargas Llosa, literary awards ‘are extraordinarily arbitrary, sometimes stubbornly evading those who most deserve them while besieging and overwhelming those who merit them least’. Many of the world’s ...