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‘Words’ is M/C Reviews consideration of the written text. ‘Words’ reviews academic texts from myriad disciplines as well as all fiction, be it poetry, prose or drama.
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Lynette Hughes and Catriona Mills
Co-Editors, 'Words'
Review of 'Prosthetic Gods' by Robert Clarke 31 Oct. 01
Review of 'Back When We Were Grownups' by Catriona Mills 31 Oct. 01
'The Uses of Art' - A Review by Christine Dauber 31 Oct. 01
"Murder as foul as fevered imaginations can devise": Rosamond Siemon's 'The Mayne Inheritance' by Catriona Mills 31 Oct. 01
Is 'GNW' the New 'Smothers Brothers'? Review of 'Groove Tube' by Lynette Hughes 8 Oct. 01
Review of 'The Body, Culture and Society' by Adam Dodd 22 Sept. 01
A Farewell to Arms: Review of 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' by Kelly McWilliam 10 Sept. 01
Just for Kids? Review of 'Children's Literature' by Catriona Mills 10 Sept. 01
'Carnal Appetites' and the Problematics of Reviewing by John Gunders 27 Aug. 01
Review of 'Australian TV Book' by Nick Caldwell 13 Aug. 01
Out to Watch TV: Review of 'Ambient Television' by Kate Douglas 2 Aug. 01
Review of Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs by Adam Dodd 30 Jul. 01
Kiss My Gas: Self-Help's New Face by Sara Hughes 26 Jul. 01
Review of 'Red Dust: A Path Through China' by Robert Clarke 26 Jul. 01
Love Lost: A.S. Byatt's A Biographer's Tale by Carolyn Hughes 03 Jul. 01
Review of 'The Handbook of Gothic Literature' by Kim Wilkins 07 June 01
Review of 'TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life' by Justine Lloyd 07 June 01
Review of 'The Green Studies Reader' by Paul Starr 31 May 01
From 'Cut' to 'Politique des Auteurs' : Susan Hayward's 'Cinema Studies' by Kelly McWilliam 28 Mar. 01
Paper and Screens: Interview with Rosemary Sorensen by Felicity Meakins and Carolyn Hughes 12 Feb. 01
Review of Adeline Yen Mah's 'Watching the Tree to Catch a Hare' by Miriam Wei Wei Lo 12 Feb. 01
Waking Up the White Woman: Review of 'Talkin' Up to the White Woman' by Carolyn Hughes 19 Jan. 01
Review of 'Living Out Loud' by Greg Hughes 18 Dec. 00
Review of 'Kaleidoscope Notes' by Melissa West 15 Dec. 00
Longing to Belong? 'Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership' by Margaret McDonell 4 Dec. 00
Keeping Languages Alive: Review of 'Language Death' by William Hatherell 4 Dec. 00
A Brisk Walk Through Words and Time: Review of 'The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature' by Carolyn Hughes 28 Nov. 00
The Meet Market: Review of Brisbane Writers Festival 'Meeting Place' by Jason Ensor 28 Nov. 00
Myth-making and the Quintessential Battler: Peter Carey's 'True History of the Kelly Gang' by Kelly McWilliam 24 Nov. 00
Many Divides: Reviewers and Critics at the Brisbane Writers Festival by Carolyn Hughes 4 Nov. 00
Review of 'The Sound Bite Society' by Lisa Gunders 31 Oct. 00
Legend Mate, Bloody Legend by Paul McCormack 31 Oct.00
Review of 'Difficult Love' by Sean Monaghan 31 Oct.00
Done Like a Duck Dinner: The Rise and Fall of One Nation by Paul McCormack 26 Oct.00
Postmodernisn't or Postmodernity is U.S.: Arthur Asa Berger's 'The Postmodern Presence' by Peta Mitchell 23 Oct.00
Resurrecting Bergson by Libby MacDonald 19 Oct.00
Pixel Planet: 'An Introduction to Visual Culture' by Natasha Mayne 16 Oct.00
Analysing r.a.t.s.: Nancy K. Baym's 'Tune In, Log On' by Axel Bruns 26 Sept.00
Women, Education and Books by Francis Vicary 11 Sept.00
All Mixed Up : 'New Age Capitalism' by Guy Redden 11 Sept.00
'Art of the State' by John Gunders 11 Sept.00
Subverse: 'Eyes Half Open' by Kelly McWilliam 11 Sept.00
The Word Made Flesh – Review of Subverse: 2000 Queensland Poetry Festival by Miriam Lo 22 Aug.00
Subverse: 2000 Queensland Poetry Festival by Carolyn Hughes 18 Aug.00
Review of 'Alternative Australia: Celebrating Cultural Diversity' by Susan Luckman 18 Aug. 00
Leisure Works Best: 'Sharing the Work, Saving the Planet' by Guy Redden 18 Aug. 00
  Her Muse Called Into Her Crowded Ear: Women Writing Culture An M/C Reviews Feature 26 July 00
Pornotopian Studies: 'Sex Ed: Film, Video, and the Framework of Desire' by Simon-Astley Scholfield 19 July 00
Breaking the Landscape and Body Binary: '(In)scribing Body/Landscape Relations' by Carolyn Hughes 12 July 00
Representing Difference; Is the Wait Over? 'Waiting in Space: An Anthology of Australian Writing' by Kate Douglas 12 July 00
The Unholy Triad: 'Sport, Culture and the Media' by Andrea Mitchell 19 June 00
An Adequate Warm-Up: 'Sport, Culture and the Media' by Kathryn Goldie 19 June 00
In Search of Pierre Bourdieu, Philosopher: 'Bourdieu: A Critical Reader' by John Gunders 4 Mar. 00
You™: 'Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium...' by Susan Luckman 19 Feb. 00
Not an Objective Account: 'Getting Equal' by Sam Carroll 15 Feb. 00
  Mixed Bag: 'News, Gender and Power' by Sam Carroll 15 Feb. 00
We Love Marshall: Paul Levinson's 'Digital McLuhan' by Axel Bruns 14 Feb. 00
Postmodernism Gone Sane: 'The Resurgence of the Real' by Guy Redden 10 Jan. 00
  Exotic Brew: Food in History, Film, and Design Three book review
by Roger Haden
17 Nov. 99
  Race Days, 'Race Daze' by Paul Mc Cormack 24 Oct. 99
  Tuning in to McLuhan: 'The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion' by John Fraim 24 Oct. 99
  Fantasy Island? Ghassan Hage's 'White Nation' by Paul Mc Cormack 16 Oct. 99
  Economies of Signs and Tastes: 'Accounting for Tastes' by Sean Aylward Smith 16 Oct. 99
  A Driving Machismo: Richard Strauss's 'Up for Rego' by Sam Carroll 16 Oct. 99
  Polemic Publication: Ghassan Hage's 'White Nation' by Tseen Khoo 16 Oct. 99
Acts of Storytelling: Translation in and around Mary Zournazi's 'Foreign Dialogues: Memories, Translations, Conversations' by Lara Cain 11 Oct. 99
  Missing the Mark: 'Playing the Man: New Approaches to Masculinity' by Kathryn Goldie 11 Oct. 99
  Not Queer Enough: 'Playing the Man: New Approaches to Masculinity' by Simon-Astley Scholfield 6 Oct. 99
  Gritty Specificities: 'Gritty Cities' by Laurie Johnson 29 Sep. 99
  Many Voices in the City: 'Technocities' by Peta Mitchell 29 Sep. 99
  E-Muse on Trial: The (Young) Life and Times of the E-Journal An M/C Reviews Feature 15 Sep. 99
  Straight and Narrow Journeys: 'When London Calls: The Expatriation of Australian Creative Artists to Britain' by Simon-Astley Scholfield 13 Sep. 99
  Opening Up the Categories: 'Memory Trade' by David Cox 10 Sep. 99
  Stop: Think: 'Stop Think' by Guy Redden 23 July 99
Governing the Ungovernable: 'The Governance of Cyberspace' by Sherman Young 19 July 99
  Response to 'Aspiring Musician: Robert Fripp's DGM Diary' by Catherine Howell 22 June 99
  Politics is Elsewhere: 'Popular Culture and Everyday Life' by Kirsty Leishman 8 June 99
  Point and Click to 'Cutnpaste' by Kirsty Leishman 4 June 99
  A Vibrant Corpus: David Williamson's 'Corporate Vibes' by Sue McKell 19 May 99
  Slightly Wobbly: 'Faust' by Felicity Meakins 27 Apr. 99
  A Visit from the Timminses: the Cowboy Junkies in Brisbane by Axel Bruns 29 Jan. 99
  Beaming Up the Mise-en-Scène: 'Star Trek: The Exhibit' by Nick Caldwell 17 Dec. 98
  Not Just a Party: The First National Young Writers Festival by Kirsty Leishman 23 Oct. 98
  Festival of Perseverance: 7th Brisbane International Film Festival by Axel Bruns 9 Oct. 98
  Explicit Rites: 'The Afternoon of a Faun' and 'The Rite of Spring' by Felicity Meakins 30 Sep. 98
  Hilarious Spectacle: 'The Marriage of Figaro' by Paul Mc Cormack 20 Sep. 98
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