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Alternative title: ALR
Issue Details: First known date: 2010... vol. 5 no. 8 September 2010 of The Australian Literary Review est. 2006 The Australian Literary Review
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2010 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Hancock Express, Geoffrey Blainey , single work review
— Review of A Three-Cornered Life : The Historian W. K. Hancock Jim Davidson , 2010 single work biography ; (p. 6-7)
Bugger the Bloggers : Old-World Critics Still Count, Geordie Williamson , single work criticism

Geordie Williamson traces his own encounters with Australian literature - while living in England - and comes to an understanding of what Australia's national literature is 'good for': 'helping us define ourselves in relation to an Anglo past and American present, for example, or airing the wounds suffered by indigenous Australia, or inhabiting those new frictions that result from our expanding cultural pluralism. Above all, it could teach us to dwell more easily in a landscape that did not accord with the metaphors and myth-kitty that was our northern inheritance.'

From this launching point, Williamson sets himself the task of exploring the current state of Australian literary criticism and the devising of a national literary canon.

 (p. 12-14)
Losing the Plot? That's a Start, John Dale , single work column (p. 14)
What a Swell Party This Is, Jose Borghino , single work review
— Review of Lights Out in Wonderland D. B. C. Pierre , 2010 single work novel ; (p. 16)
Odd Lives Laid Bare, Stephanie Bishop , single work review
— Review of Utopian Man Lisa Lang , 2009 single work novel ; Night Street Kristel Thornell , 2009 single work novel ; The Vintage and the Gleaning Jeremy Chambers , 2008 single work novel ; Milk Fever Lisa Reece-Lane , 2010 single work novel ; (p. 17)
Love, Beauty and Loneliness, Agnes Nieuwenhuizen , single work review
— Review of Bereft Chris Womersley , 2010 single work novel ; Traitor Stephen Daisley , 2010 single work novel ; (p. 18)
My Mother and Mick, Gabrielle Carey , extract essay
Gabrielle Carey excavates, as far as possible with the resources at her disposal, the connection between her mother, Joan Ferguson, the writer Randolph Stow and their respective families. Correspondence between Carey and Stow (included in the essay) sheds some light on the relationship and solves some family mysteries for Carey.
 (p. 24, 23, 21)
Note:
  • Published in reverse pagination order, beginning on page twenty-four.
  • port. (Randolph Stow)
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