Cover art for The Best Australian Essays 2012
Published
Black Inc., November 2012
ISBN
9781863955799
Format
Softcover, 310 pages
Dimensions
20.9cm × 13.6cm × 2.4cm

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This is a wide-ranging collection of the year's most thought-provoking non-fiction pieces. Helen Garner, Anna Krien and Romy Ash discuss animals; David Marr, Rhys Muldoon and James Button discuss those of the political variety. Peter Robb meets Akira Isogawa, J.M.

Coetzee considers Les Murray’s black dog, and Gillian Mears her award-winning novel. John Bryson reflects on the drawn-out, unnecessary agony of the Azaria case. With humour, Louis Nowra walks in the shadow of death, while Lee Kofman’s teenage passions unfurl in a time of war. There’s Andrew Ford on John Cage, Maria Tumarkin on food, Clive James on Pauline Kael, and Nick Bryant on Gina Rinehart.

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