November 2018, issue no. 406
Welcome to the November issue of ABR!
Highlights include:
• Beejay Silcox’s new Fellowship essay on the evolution of misery literature and trauma voyeurism in fiction
• Arts Highlights of the Year: twenty-nine critics nominate their most memorable events across the arts
• Astrid Edwards on Clementine Ford’s new book Boys Will Be Boys
• Jane Cadzow reviews the new memoir from Gillian Triggs
• Varun Ghosh on Bob Woodward’s book on Donald Trump
• Maggie MacKellar on Clare Wright’s new history of women’s progress in Australia
Highlights from the current issue
Shaun Crowe reviews 'Rusted Off: Why country Australia is fed up' by Gabrielle Chan
I have only been to Harden-Murrumburrah once, the small town where journalist Gabrielle Chan moved in 1996, leaving the Canberra press gallery to live on a farm with her husband. It was on More
Brenda Niall reviews 'Upstate' by James Wood
Forget the author – it’s the book that matters. That’s sound advice, but there are times when it is hard to follow. James Wood’s Upstate is a testing case. A quietly refle More
Tali Lavi reviews 'A Second Chance: The making of Yiddish Melbourne' by Margaret Taft and Andrew Markus
In my childhood home, Yiddish prompted a frisson of the suppressed. This was a direct consequence of adults speaking it whenever they did not want us children to understand. Yiddish was th More
Paul Kildea reviews 'Debussy: A painter in sound' by Stephen Walsh
‘Chopin is the greatest of them all,’ Claude Debussy told his pupil Marguerite Long, ‘for through the piano alone he discovered everything.’ This ‘everything’ had a long shadow More
Also in this issue
Recent Issues
October 2018, no. 405
• Review of the Month: Felicity Plunkett on Behrouz Boochani’s powerful memoir No Friend But the Mountains
• Susan Reid looks at Adani and the coal industry’s influence on Australian politics
• Tim Flannery on Bruno Latour’s new book on climate change
• Cassandra Atherton on Haruki Murakami’s new novel
• Fiona Gruber on Chloe Hooper’s book on Black Saturday
• Lauren Rickards comments on coal, fossils, and aluminium
• Nicole Abadee on Markus Zusak’s new novel Bridge of Clay
• Gail Bell on Leigh Sales’s new book on unexpected trauma
September 2018, no. 404
• Review of the Month: Clare Corbould reviews Joseph Crespino's 'biography' of Atticus Finch, Harper Lee's great creation
• Brenda Niall on the correspondence of Vance and Nettie Palmer
• Gideon Haigh on Seymour Hersh's memoir
• Stephen Mills on Bob Carr's new memoir
• Beejay Silcox on Michael Ondaatje’s new novel Warlight
• Michael Shmith on journalist Les Hinton’s memoir
• Johanna Leggatt on Stephanie Bishop's Man Out of Time
