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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 The Best Australian Essays 2010
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Black Inc. , 2010 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Talking for Posterity : Peter Porter 1929-2010, Clive James , single work obituary (p. 1-6)
The Inferno, Christine Kenneally , single work essay (p. 7-19)
Patrick White's London, David Marr , single work essay (p. 24-42)
On Marriage, Andrew Sant , single work autobiography (p. 55-61)
The Culturestate, Guy Rundle , single work criticism (p. 62-73)
Note: With title: Culturestate
Sister Act, Peter Conrad , single work essay (p. 74-83)
Note: With title: Something Sacred
Rick Grossman : The Trip Home, Maureen O'Shaughnessy , single work biography (p. 98-104)
'Freud Has a Name for It' : A. A. Phillip's 'The Cultural Cringe', Ian Henderson , single work criticism
Henderson argues that the primary concern of Phillips's essay 'The Cultural Cringe' was not the production but the reception of Australian writing and that the essay is 'underpinned by a reception theory that begets a culturally specific hsitory of reading'. His aim is 'to distil that theory, and I will do so by drawing together the history of Phillips's use of the term and his late characterization of it in specific psychoanalytic terms' (127).
 (p. 105-116)
The Smoking Vegetarian, David Brooks , single work prose (p. 150-160)
Country and Western, Sunil Badami , single work prose (p. 161-168)
Infinite Anthology : Adventures in Lexiconia, Les Murray , single work criticism (p. 169-179)
Art + Darkness, Janet Hawley , single work biography (p. 180-192)
The States of the Nation, David Malouf , single work essay (p. 193-202)
The Only Things I Remember from School, Murray Bail , single work autobiography (p. 225-228)
Waxing Wiser Than Oneself, Alex Miller , single work essay (p. 260-272)
On Being Odd, Lorna Hallahan , single work essay

'In "On Being Odd", Lorna Hallahan ... writes about a different form of stigmatisation: the marginalisation of the different, the disabled, the supposedly "odd" or "grotesque".'

Source: Australian Book Review, 'Advances', May 2010

 (p. 287-299)
Born in Vietnam, Made in Australia : Getting the Fish Sauce Recipe Right, Pauline Nguyen , single work autobiography (p. 300-306)
The Ace of Spades : Tree Change in a Time of Change, Carmel Bird , single work autobiography (p. 307-314)
High Times at the Hotel Desiccation, Sarah Drummond , single work column (p. 337-339)
A Fine and Public Place, Gerard Windsor , single work prose (p. 340-348)
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