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Alternative title: ABR
Issue Details: First known date: 1986... no. 84 September 1986 of Australian Book Review est. 1961 Australian Book Review
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1986 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Starters and Writers [Australian Book Review, September 1986], Mark Rubbo , single work criticism (p. 2)
The Invented Self, Real up to a Point, D. J. O'Hearn , single work review
— Review of Confessions of a New Boy Donald Horne , 1985 single work autobiography ;
(p. 4)
Agility, Catholicity and Nerve : Fifteen Years of Reviewing , and Other Impossible Activities, Kevin Hart , single work review
— Review of Hot Copy : Reading and Writing Now Don Anderson , 1986 selected work criticism ;
(p. 5-6)
Coming from the Same Place : The Poetry of Shared Experience, Helen Thomson , single work review
— Review of The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets 1986 anthology poetry ;
(p. 10-12)
Portrait of the Artist as a History Man : And Other Tales, of Artifice and Betrayal, J. A. Mead , single work review
— Review of Disquiet and Other Stories Manning Clark , 1969 selected work short story ; Feathers or Lead : Short Fiction Nicholas Jose , 1986 selected work short story ;
(p. 14-16)
The Risks of Slenderness : Choosing Between the Lines, Kate Ahearne , single work review
— Review of Love Child Jean Bedford , 1986 single work novel ;
(p. 16-17)
Voicing the Pressure of Dumbness : Intimacy and Irony Required, Brenda Walker , single work review
— Review of Blood in the Rain Margaret Barbalet , 1986 single work novel ;
(p. 18-19)
U.S. Reporting [Australian Book Review, September 1986], Diana Smouha , single work criticism (p. 25-26)
Firm Views within Material Constraints : Oz Lit. Hist.: A Brute of a Book to Write, Mary Lord , single work review
— Review of A History of Australian Literature Ken L. Goodwin , 1986 single work criticism ;
(p. 26-27)
The Thankless Task of the Anthologist : War Writing, Familiar and Un, Robin Gerster , single work review
— Review of Fighting Words : Australian War Writing 1986 anthology poetry short story extract prose ;
(p. 27-28)
Self Portrait, Serge Liberman , single work criticism autobiography (p. 28-30)
One Honourable Way of Being Human : Celebrating the World, Philip Martin , single work review
— Review of Marching on Paradise Peter Steele , 1984 selected work poetry ;
(p. 33-34)
Parallel Texts : Getting to the Heart of Australians. Oz Poets, Turning Japanese, Hoshie Itō , single work review
— Review of Twentieth Century Australian Poetry 1985 anthology poetry ;
(p. 34-35)
Abbreviations [September 1986], Kerryn Goldsworthy , single work criticism (p. 39)
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