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  • Review of *Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics*, by Tanya Dalziell
  • Review of *Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonization*, by Kate Rigby
  • **Aboriginal Mobilities and Colonial Serial Fiction**
  • **Wenz Reinvented: The Making and Remaking of a French-Australian Transnational Writer**
  • Review of *The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt* by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
  • **‘Like a Novel’: Literary Aesthetics, Nonfiction Ethics, and the *S-Town* podcast**
  • **The Commercial Function of Historical Book Reviews: An Interrogation of the Angus & Robertson Archives**
Volume 36 No. 1
30 April 2021
  • Shifting Timescapes and the Significance of the Mine in Alexis Wright’s *Carpentaria*
  • Thea Astley’s *An Item from the Late News*: A Fictional Fifth Gospel
  • **Connecting Guatemala, Australia and the World: Violence in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s *Senselessness* and Mark McKenna’s _Looking for Blackfellas’ Point_**
  • Towards a History of Literary Programming on ABC Radio
  • Review of *Locating Australian Literary Memory*, by Brigid Magner
  • **Contingencies of Meaning Making: English Teaching and Literary Sociability**
  • **‘Ordinary Readers’ and Political Uses: Re-Examining Helen Garner’s Non-Fiction Writings about Filicide**
  • Review of *Australian Literary Criticism since 1901*, by Peng Qinglong
  • Review of *Book Publishing in Australia: A Living Legacy*, edited by Millicent Weber and Aaron Mannion
Volume 35 No. 2
29 October 2020
  • ‘This edition howls to heaven to be withdrawn’: The Palmer Abridgement of Joseph Furphy’s *Such is Life*.
  • Culture wars and corporatism: The cultural mission in Australian non-fiction book publishing, 1958–2018
  • Revaluing Memoir and Rebuilding Mothership in Maggie Nelson’s *The Argonauts*
  • Review of *Suburban Space, The Novel and Australian Modernity* by Brigid Rooney
  • Review of *White Apology and Apologia: Australian Novels of Reconciliation* by Liliana Zavaglia
Volume 35 No. 1
28 April 2020
  • On Not Having Sex: Sumner Locke Elliott and Queer History
  • ‘An Explosive Novel of Strange Passions’: Horwitz Publications and Australia’s Pulp Modernism
  • Site Unscene: Medial Ideology and the Literary Interface
  • Review of *Ink in Her Veins: The Troubled Life of Aileen Palmer*, by Sylvia Martin
  • Review of *Reading Corporeality in Patrick White's Fiction: An Abject Dictatorship of the Flesh*, by Bridget Grogan
Volume 34 No. 2
19 December 2019
  • Review of *The Transported Imagination: Australian Interwar Magazines and the Geographical Imaginaries of Colonial Modernity*, by Victoria Kuttainen, Susann Liebich and Sarah Galletly
  • The Australian Kangaroo Hunt Novel (1830–1858) as *Bildungsroman*
  • Review of *Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt*, by Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
  • Review of *A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History*, by Katherine Bode
  • Revisiting the ‘Problem’ of Anthropomorphism through Ceridwen Dovey’s *Only the Animals* (2014)
Volume 34 No. 1
5 July 2019
  • Defining and Redefining Popular Genres: The Evolution of ‘New Adult’ Fiction
  • Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels
  • Review of *Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964*, by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell
  • What is Australian Popular Fiction?
  • The Ends of Empire: Australian Steampunk and the Reimagining of Euro-Modernity
  • The Menace of Intimacy: Domestic Noir, Feminist Criminology, and Emily Maguire’s *An Isolated Incident*
Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction in the Twenty-First Century
Volume 33, No. 4

Edited by Kim Wilkins, Beth Driscoll and Lisa Fletcher.

3 December 2018
  • Re-Imagining Indigenous Australia through the Short Story: *Heat and Light* by Ellen van Neerven
  • Short Fiction Short Nation: The Ideologies of Australian Realism
  • Review of *D. H. Lawrence’s Australia: Anxiety at the Edge of Empire*, by David Game
  • Review of *Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature*, edited by Nicholas Birns, Nicole Moore and Sarah Shieff
Volume 33 No. 3
2 November 2018
  • Review of *Antipodal Shakespeare: Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916-2016*, by Gordon McMullan and Philip Mead, with Ailsa Grant Ferguson, Kate Flaherty, and Mark Houlahan
  • Literary Aspiration and the Papers of William Gosse Hay
  • Review of *Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays*, edited by Elizabeth McMahon and Brigitta Olubas
  • Reading the South Through Northern Eyes: Jorge Luis Borges’s Australian Reception, 1962–2016
  • Economies of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century Australia: Catherine Helen Spence’s Short Fiction for Children
  • ‘Adjusted’ Vision: Interwar Settler Modernism in Eleanor Dark’s *Return to Coolami*
Volume 33 No. 2
9 July 2018
  • Review of *Mick: A Life of Randolph Stow*, by Suzanne Falkiner
  • Review of *The Fiction of Tim Winton: Earthed and Sacred*, by Lyn McCredden.
  • Magda Meets Theodora: Language and Interiority in *The Aunt’s Story* and *In The Heart of the Country*
  • Review of *Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy*, by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
  • Serving ‘a Male Philosophy’? *Elizabeth Costello*’s Feminism and Coetzee’s Dialogues with Joyce
  • Eurydice’s Curse: J. M. Coetzee and the Prospect of Death
  • Review of *Required Reading: Literature in Australian schools Since 1945*, edited by Tim Dolin, Jo Jones and Patricia Dowsett.
  • Coetzee’s Womanizing
  • ‘In Every Story There Is a Silence’: Translating Coetzee’s Female Narrators into Italian
  • The Communion of Clouds: Becoming-Woman in Coetzee’s *Waiting for the Barbarians*
  • Coetzee and Wicomb: Writers Giving an Account of Themselves in *Age of Iron* and *October*
  • *In the Heart of the Country* and Pain: Re-reading Space, Gender and Affect
Thematising Women in the Work of J. M. Coetzee
Volume 33, No. 1

Edited by Sue Kossew, Julieanne Lamond and Melinda Harvey.

All but one of the essays in this special issue called ‘Thematising Women in the Work of J. M. Coetzee’ were first presented at the 'Reading Coetzee’s Women' conference convened by…

25 February 2018
  • Constructing Cosmopolitanism, Promoting Humanitarianism: The Marvellous Melbourne of E.W. Cole in Lisa Lang’s *Utopian Man* (2010)
  • Toward Worlding Settler Texts: Tracking the Uses of Miles Franklin’s *My Brilliant Career* through the Curriculum
  • Review of *Christos Tsiolkas: The Utopian Vision*, by Jessica Gildersleeve
Volume 32 No. 2
19 September 2017