Australian Book Review

June 2008, no. 302

June 2008, no. 302

Welcome to the June 2008 issue of Australian Book Review.

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Full Contents

Memoir

Not Quite Straight: A memoir by Jeffrey Smart

Fiction

A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz

by Louise Swinn

Poetry

Shades of the Sublime and the Beautiful by John Kinsella

by Nicholas Birns

Fiction

Musk and Byrne by Fiona Capp

Poem

'Aeneas Remembers Domestic Bliss' a poem by Dorothy Porter

by Dorothy Porter

Poetry

The Australian Popular Songbook by Alan Wearne

by David McCooey

Fiction

The Steele Diaries by Wendy James

by Christina Hill

Anthropology

A Cautious Silence: The politics of Australian anthropology by Geoffrey Gray

by Francesca Merlan

History

A River Kwai Story by Robin Rowland & The Men of the Line by Pattie Wright

Letters

'Letter from New Haven' by Angus Trumble

by Angus Trumble

Australian Fiction

Beneath the Bloodwood Tree by Julienne van Loon

by Peter Pierce

June 2008 - Advances

by Australian Book Review

Non-fiction

Time warp

by Peter Rodgers

War

A neglected campaign

by Jeffrey Grey

Young Adult Fiction

Spur to the imagination

Non-fiction

Days in FitzCarlton

Theatre

The birth of opera

by Robert Gibson

Military History

All in!

by Peter Edwards

Poetry

'Icarus in C' by Judith Bishop

by Judith Bishop

Poetry

'What Comes Next' by Joan Grant

Non-fiction

Multiple modernisms

by Jennifer Strauss

Australian Fiction

Visceral writing

by Stephanie Green

Non-fiction

No ideas but in things

by Hugo Bowne-Anderson

Non-fiction

Move over, Polonius!

by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Politics

Scholars and qadis

by Jonathan Pearlman

Art

Words strain

Art

Wuthering heights

Poetry

A sceptical heart

by Ian Templeman

What choice?

by Marian Quartly

Children's Fiction

Miss McAllister’s Ghost by Elizabeth Fensham & Take it Easy, Danny Allen by Phil Cummings

by Anna Ryan-Punch

Patron's Corner

by Australian Book Review

Tragic outcomes

by Beverley Kingston

Camels and stink bombs

by Nick Fischer

Luck and happenstance

by Sylvia Marchant

Quickening brevity

by Marion M Campbell

JOURNALS

by Lyn McCredden

June 2008 - Letters

by Australian Book Review

LA TROBE UNIVERSITY NEWS

Pornarama

by Jay Daniel Thompson

IN BRIEF

by Tali Polichtuk

IN BRIEF

by Matthew Clayfield

IN BRIEF

by Gillian Dooley

IN BRIEF

by Emily Fraser

IN BRIEF

by Gillian Dooley

IN BRIEF

Discovering exploration

by Ian Morrison

Poems

The importance of elsewhere

by Maria Takolander

Anthologies

Privileging the pastoral?

by Andrew Burns