Archive
Captain Bullen’s War: The Vietnam War diary of Captain John Bullen edited by Paul Ham
Treason on the Airwaves: Three Allied broadcasters on Axis radio during World War II by Judith Keene
Tag: A man, a woman, and the war to end all wars by Barry Heard
Terror and Joy: The Films of Dušan Makavejev by Lorraine Mortimer
Later Manuscripts: (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen) edited by Janet Todd and Linda Bree
Australian Peacekeeping: Sixty years in the field edited by David Horner, Peter Loney and Jean Bou
Delights and jolts
Dear Editor,
ABR is always engaging, even when one disagrees with the thrust or standpoint of particular reviews, but surely the May issue is the most brilliant ever. An edition which has a poet (Peter Rose) reviewing David Malouf’s new novel, Brian Matthews on Henry Lawson, Elizabeth Webby on Xavier Herbert, and Robert Phiddian on Penny Gay’s monograph about Shakespearean comedies, has to be special, thoroughly deserving of the endorsements of literary luminaries with which ABR has promoted itself over the years. In fact, a writer who, as Dr Phiddian did, can use the phrase ‘industrial-strength literary-criticism’ in his first paragraph and one of my favourite words, ‘rebarbative’, in his second, has my unremitting admiration. And I haven’t yet mentioned the appearance of John Burnheim and Ian Britain on the Letters page.
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