October 2017, issue no. 395
Yes to Equality - An Open Letter
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
Open Page with Josephine Wilson
Australian Book Review spoke to Josephine Wilson, whose second novel, Extinctions (UWA Publishing, 2016) won the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award after winning the inaugural Dor More
Deb Anderson reviews 'Slow Catastrophes: Living with drought in Australia' by Rebecca Jones
How do people cope with drought, not as an abstraction or singular event but as a lifelong trial? In a bid to answer this question, historian Rebecca Jones elevates an understated, if unde More
'Among Trees' by Philip Jones
Even young trees bear the signature of deep time, if not eternity. For most of humanity’s existence, men and women have looked upwards through trees, wondering at the tracery of their br ... More
'Why should you care about the Russian Revolution?' by Mark Edele
‘What about Lenin do you admire most?’ Catherine Merridale, author of Lenin on the Train (2016), answered as most historians would: ‘I can’t think of anything much to admi More
Also in this issue
Recent Issues
September 2017
Philip Jones discusses the Bruce Chatwin phenomenon in 'Beyond Songlines'
Peter Rose on the same-sex marriage debate
John Rickard on Judith Brett's long awaited biography of Alfred Deakin
August 2017
The three shortlisted stories in this year’s Jolley Prize
Darius Sepehri’s Calibre Prize essay ‘To Speak of Sorrow’
Tom Griffiths reviews a new book on the climate catastrophe
Bernadette Brennan on Sarah Sentilles’s hymn for the victims of war
