Browsing No 254 - September, 2003 by Issue Date
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Up There Cow Punk. "Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia" by John Whiteoak and Aline Scott-Maxwell (eds) [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-09)This hefty volume begins with an article on a cappella singing (ensembles with names like Café of the Gate of Salvation and Voices from the Vacant Lot) and ends with the zither, which instrument, the editors assure us, ... -
Bestsellers/Subscription
(Australian Book Review, 2003-09)This item is the August 2003 Bestsellers and Subscription Form page of this issue. -
Letter from Baghdad
(Australian Book Review, 2003-09)In "Letter from Baghdad' D. T. Potts recounts the aftermath of the looting of the Iraq National Museum that took place in April 2003, the international response to it and his own efforts to assist the museum staff in ... -
The Meaning of Recognition. [essay]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-09)This essay reflects on the meaning of recognition as opposed to celeberity, as James reads and analyses selections from the poetry of Philip Hodgins (1959-95). -
Changing Scenery. "The Boy in the Green Suit" by Robert Hillman. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-09)The heart of this book is an account of one year in the life of its author. This is a book in which no one stays still for very long. It only sketches the reasons why this might be. -
Late Bloomer. "Farewell Cinderella: Creating Arts and Identity in Western Australia" by Geoffrey Bolton, Richard Rossiter and Jan Ryan (eds) [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-09)As one who has lived in Western Australia for the greater part of her life and currently works in the arts, Wendy Were's interest was piqued by the claim of the editors of this collection that Western Australia may bid ... -
Dainty Horror. "Australian Surrealism: The Agapitos/Wilson Collection" by Bruce James. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-09)When ‘Surrealism’ was first minted, it was easy to find a shower of retrospective applications for it. The congested canvases of Hieronymus Bosch, for one, still spring to mind, though we need to retrace our steps no further ... -
Orreries and Putti. "The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science" by J. L Heilbron (ed) [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-09)What should you expect from a companion? Resolute reliability? Occasional inspiration? Whimsical, even capricious distraction? The editor in chief of the work is J.L. Heilbron, who divides his time between Berkeley, Oxford ... -
Ageing with Film. "The Mad Max Movies" by Adrian Martin, "Walkabout" by Louis Nowra and "The Devil's Playground" by Christos Tsiolkas [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-09)The Currency Press's series ‘Australian Screen Classics’ is off to a good start. With playwright Louis Nowra’s "Walkabout", thorough in its production, analysis and reception mode, novelist Christos Tsiolkas’s "TheDevil’s ... -
Shadows. [poem]
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Consolations in a Void. "The Right To Die? An Examination of the Euthanasia Debate" by Miriam Cosic. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-09)Drawing on philosophical research and countless interviews with patients, families, health professionals and politicians confronting what decisions are to be made at the end of life, Cosic conveys very effectively the range ... -
Night Vision [poem]
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Two Cheers For Cosmocracy. "Global Civil Society?" by John Keane. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-09)With the world apparently going to hell in a handbasket, the flood of contributions to ideas of global governance shows no sign of abating. John Keane is an Adelaide-born heavy-hitter in the area of studies of civil society ... -
Debatable Scenarios. "A Short History of China and Southeast Asia: Tribute, Trade and Influence" by Martin Stuart-Fox. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-09)Stuart-Fox's tightly organised book covers around 2000 years of relationships between China and the many kingdoms and countries of South-East Asia. He argues,as a good historian should, that the past will powerfully shape ... -
Advances, Contents, Letters, Imprints and Contributors.
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Honest Governor. "James Stirling: Admiral and Founding Governor of Western Australia" by Pamela Statham-Drew. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-09)Pamela Statham-Drew’s account of Stirling’s governorship is very detailed and will enhance his reputation for competence. Statham-Drew has been well served by the publishers. This is a handsome volume, with good maps and ... -
Arguing for Equality. "Inequality in Australia" by Alastair Greig, Frank Lewins and Kevin White and "Australia's Welfare Wars: The Players, the Politics and the Ideologues" by Philip Mendes. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-09)While these books are particularly valuable as textbooks, and as introductions to the most important debates in their fields, they also bring their readers to a kind of threshold, beyond which we must strive to reach. In ... -
Elititis. "The Twilight of the Élites" by David Flint. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-09)Accepted on its own terms, "The Twilight of the Élites" is just fine: a readable digest of various strands in current conservative thought, with some parts of which I disagree violently, to other parts of which I am far ... -
The 30/30/40 Society. "The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty" by Mark Peel. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-09)In this fine book, Peel reminds us that there are Australians who experience inadequate income, misery, eviction, homelessness, distress, cold and hunger. Not having enough income is a real experience, but it does not ... -
Romancer and Anatomist. "A Long and Winding Road: Xavier Herbert's Literary Journey" by Sean Monahan. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-09)This, the first major study of Xavier Herbert’s literary journey, is a superb work of scholarship. It is written with passion, good humour and a clear acknowledgment of the faults, both personal and literary, of its subject. ...