MEANJIN BACK ISSUE

ETERNAL SUMMER
Vol. 66, no. 4, 2007–vol. 67, no. 1, 2008 (Double Issue)
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Editorial

Ian Britain  Summer’s Lease

Interviews

Susan Bradley Smith  Cross-Pollination
Talking to poet John Kinsella

John Heard  Every Move You Make
Talking to choreographer Merce Cunningham

Jorge Sotirios A Useful Passion
Talking to biographer Hazel Rowley

Cinema

Brian McFarlane  A Summer XI
A round-up of seasonal offerings at the movies

Philip Olander Bean’s Progress
Saluting Rowan Atkinson’s masterpiece

Essays

Dirk den Hartog  Beauty and the Beach
Pleasures (and hazards) of the Australian beach, in nature and art

Damon Young  The Languorous Siesta
What makes summer so conducive to reading?

Naomi Manuell  The Company of Books
Reading as a collective social pleasure

Gillian Bouras  The Ravages of Arcadia
On the bushfires that devastated Greece in 2007

Rosanna Morris-Jones  Avant le Déluge
A personal perspective on seasonal and climate change in Europe

Lyndel Rowe  Snow in Summer
The hazards of living in Covent Garden

John Armstrong  Art, Love and Knowledge
How scholarly approaches to art can lead us to focus on the wrong thing

Desley Deacon  A Cosmopolitan at Home
How Sydney was the conduit to the world for stage and screen star Judith Anderson

Yossi Klein  Enough Already?
On the cultural layers in contemporary Jewish humour

Gabrielle Lord  Child Razing
A crime writer reflects on the origins of her preoccupation with fear

Christina Slade  The Education of Young Dunstan

On the formative years of former South Australian premier Don Dunstan

Katrina Finlayson  The Wizards of Oz

A day in the life of the Meanjin office

Short Fiction

By Robert Drewe, Philip Canon, Michael Wilding, A.L. Macphee, Gillian Britton, Mary-Ellen Stringer, Frank Moorhouse, Adam Ford, Joshua Wilson, Michael McGirr, David McLaren 276, Dorothy Johnston, Janey Runci, Monica Razewski, China de la Vega, Jim C. Ewing, Rosaleen Love 337, Wayne Macauley, Jennifer Mellberg, Brenda Walker 356 That Vain Word No

Novella

By Marion Halligan

Translation

By Will Firth

Image and verse

By W.H. Chong

Poetry

By Richard Hillman, John Stokes, Jeff Guess, Judy Johnson, Jillian Pattinson, Peter Boyle, Graeme Kinross-Smith, Elizabeth Lawson, Jill Jones, Paul Hetherington, Todd Hardy, Dorothy Porter, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Jaya Savige, Andrew Slattery, Toby Davidson, Maria Takolander, Christopher Palmer, John Leonard, Jan Owen, Michelle Cahill.

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