October 2018, 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
Full Contents
Journals
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani
Environmental Studies
Adani and the War Over Coal by Quentin Beresford & The Coal Truth by David Ritter
by Susan Reid
Environmental Studies
Down to Earth: Politics in the new climate regime by Bruno Latour
by Tim Flannery
Fiction
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen
Publisher of the Month
Chris Feik is Publisher of the Month
Art
Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters by Martin Gayford
Open Page
Open Page with Kristina Olsson
Environmental Studies
Urban Choreography: Central Melbourne 1985– edited by Kim Dovey, Rob Adams, and Ronald Jones
by Sara Savage
Environmental Studies
Tidalectics: Imagining an oceanic worldview through art and science edited by Stefanie Hessler
Environmental Studies
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A year of keeping bees by Helen Jukes
Religion
The Fountain of Public Prosperity: Evangelical Christians in Australian History 1740–1914 by Stuart Piggin and Robert D. Linder
by Paul Collins
Essays
Antipodean Perspective: Selected Writings of Bernard Smith edited by Rex Butler and Sheridan Palmer
Art
Shakespeare’s Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature by Stuart Kells
Music
A Coveted Possession: The rise and fall of the piano in Australia by Michael Atherton
Climate Change