Melbourne University Publishing
Against the Grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian history and politics edited by Stuart Macintyre and Sheila Fitzpatrick
by Nick Fischer •
Neal Blewett reviews 'Losing It' by Annabel Crabb, 'Loner: Inside a Labor tragedy' by Bernard Lagan, and 'The Latham Diaries' by Mark Latham
by Neal Blewett •
Although you might not guess it from media comment, The Latham Diaries (MUP, $39.95 hb, 429 pp, 0522852157) is the most important book yet published on Labor’s wilderness years. It provides a pungent characterisation of Labor’s post-1996 history; conveys a profound understanding of the challenges facing a social democratic party in contemporary Australia ...
... (read more)Traumascapes: The power and fate of places transformed by tragedy by Maria Tumarkin
by Stephen Muecke •
The History Wars by Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark & Whitewash edited by Robert Manne
by Tony Birch •
Paul Kane reviews ‘The Poetry of Les Murray’ edited by Laurie Hergenhan and Bruce Clunies Ross, ‘Les Murray’ by Steven Matthews, and ‘Poems the Size of Photographs’ by Les Murray
by Paul Kane •
You might expect a book of eighty-eight new poems by Les Murray to be sizeable (most of his recent single volumes run to about sixty poems each). But Poems the Size of Photographs is literally a small book, composed of short poems (‘though some are longer’, says the back cover) ...
... (read more)Making the Australian Male: Middle-class masculinity 1870–1920 by Martin Crotty
by John Rickard •
The MUP Encyclopaedia of Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy edited by Paul Collins
by Damien Broderick •