October 2017, issue no. 395

Welcome to the October Environment issue! Highlights include:

Stephen Orr’s Eucalypt Fellowship essay, ‘Ambassadors from another time’
Mark Edele on the centenary of the Russian Revolution
Susan Reid on the proposed Adani Carmichael Coal Mine
Tim Flannery’s review of Call of the Reed Warbler
Beejay Silcox on Michelle de Kretser’s new novel
A photo essay by Philip Jones
Open Page with Josephine Wilson

Highlights from the current issue

'The New Maps Keep a Weather Eye' by Judith Bishop

Judith Bishop

Bold shades of autumn leaf – or blazing embers’ light,
bright to extinguished, as if fires set
in hearths huddled closely in the dirt were offset
by pallid oceans with their artificial light.
A More

Matthew Chrulew reviews 'Zoo Ethics: The challenges of compassionate conservation' by Jenny Gray

Matthew Chrulew

Zoological gardens are conflicted institutions. They provide a miraculous opportunity for close-ups with exotic and native animals one might never otherwise encounter. Yet they do so by ke ... More

A survey of environmental writing

Australian Book Review

To complement our coverage of new books on the subject, we invited a number of writers, scholars, and environmentalists to nominate the books that have had the greatest effect on them from More

Mridula Nath Chakraborty reviews 'Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India' by Shashi Tharoor

Mridula Nath Chakraborty

For a book that began as a tweet, Shashi Tharoor’s Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India has had a remarkable journey, taking its best-selling author on a world tour, More