October 2018, issue no. 405
Welcome to the October Environment issue of ABR! Highlights include:
• 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
Highlights from the current issue
Paul Humphries reviews 'Wild Sea: A history of the Southern Ocean' by Joy McCann
Icebergs loom large in Joy McCann’s Wild Sea: A history of the Southern Ocean. They are one of the most recognisable features of the higher latitudes of the Southern Ocean and t More
Cassandra Atherton reviews 'Killing Commendatore' by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen
There is a running joke in Japan that autumn doesn’t start each year until Haruki Murakami has lost the Nobel Prize for Literature. Most recently, in 2017, he lost to Kazuo Ishiguro, who More
Felicity Plunkett reviews 'No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison' by Behrouz Boochani
Behrouz Boochani describes being smashed into the sea by the boulder-like weight of an overpacked, splintering boat transporting asylum seekers from Indonesia to Australia. The wreck’s More
Andrea Gaynor reviews 'The Allure of Fungi' by Alison Pouliot
Of all the forms of life historically divided into kingdoms, only two – plants and animals – have attracted large bands of human followers. Entire organisations and university departme More
Also in this issue
Recent Issues
September 2018
• 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
August 2018
• Review of the Month: Marilyn Lake reviews Peter Cochrane’s Best We Forget
• ABR Fortieth Birthday Fellow Beejay Silcox on MFA culture
• The 2018 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize shortlist
• Historian Alan Atkinson on The Sydney Wars by Stephen Gapps
• Jen Webb on Ryan O’Neill’s new satire The Drover’s Wives
• Shannon Burns on Sam Twyford-Moore’s memoir The Rapids
• Dorothy Driver on Sisonke Msimang’s memoir Always Another Country
