Meanjin Vol 66, No 4 & Vol 67, No 1: Summer Reading

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Special Double Issue!;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 Deluge 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.