Amy Baillieu
Investigative Reporter of the Spirit: The Search for Five Women
Presented by Jeffrey Meyers
Renowned biographer Professor Jeffrey Meyers delivered the eighth annual Seymour Biography Lecture – on the craft of biography, autobiography, and memoir. In his work on Joseph Conrad, Wyndham Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Robert Frost, Meyers was fascinated to learn that e ... (read more)
Purchase the February 2013 print edition
Purchase the February 2013 print edition
Features
The outlook for America in Obama’s second term Morag Fraser
Fit audience of readers Bernadette Brennan
The cult of Rupert Murdoch Joel Deane
A copious biography of J.M. Coetzee Gillian Dooley
Shapes of feelings in Brian Castro Francesca Sasnaitis
When Nettie Palmer visited Henry Han ... (read more)
Tony Birch
‘Blood has a freshness of tone and determined vigour that are frequently lacking in the work of many male Australian writers.’
Chris Flynn reviewed Blood (University of Queensland Press) in December 2011–January 2012.
Steven Carroll
‘Carroll has established himself as one of Australia’s finest contemporary novelists. Despite accolades and awards, hi ... (read more)
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REVIEWS INDEX 2010
AARONS, Mark, The Family File, Black Inc., 324/25, Dennis Altman ABELA, Deborah, Grimsdon, Random House, 325/71, Kate Eltham ADAMS, Simon, The Unforgiving Rope: Murder and Hanging on Australia’s Western Frontier, UWAP, 319/51, Richard Harding AHMAD, Irfan, Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat-E-Islami, Princeton University Press, 325/51, Greg Barton A ... (read more)
W.H. Chong
In the Library (David Malouf)
2011 Melbourne
hand-coloured linocut 20.0 x 25.0 cm
edition of 20
W.H. Chong
Kate Grenville
2011 Melbourne
two-colour linocut 20.0 x 25.0 cm
edition of 15
W.H. Chong
‘The Most Dangerous Man in the World’
(Julian Assange, WikiLeaks)
2011 Melbourne
linocut on Arches paper
25.0 x 20.0 cm (i ... (read more)
Australian Book Review (founded in 1961) was revived in 1978. It is one of Australia’s longest-standing major cultural magazines, presenting high-quality journalism and new writing for the widest possible audience. It engages with all the arts, not just literature. It is diverse in terms of content, writers, and partners, and provides a needed forum for new Australian writers and reviewers. ... (read more)
Patrick Allington was the recipient of the inaugural ABR Patrons’ Fellowship, worth $5000. His novel, Figurehead (Black Inc. 2009) was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. His short fiction and book criticism appears in Australian newspapers, magazines, and journals, including ABR.
The June 2011 issue of Australian Book Review includes Allington's major critique of the Miles Fran ... (read more)