Louise Adler

As the newly appointed Editor of a well-respected magazine, I feel a speech coming on. ABR is the result of hardworking commitment by John McLaren, John Hanrahan and most recently Kerryn Goldsworthy, who has left me with what she calls a thriving baby. It is now my job to push ABR into adolescence with all the controversy and disruption that this may bring to our current readers. Any outbreaks (d ... (read more)

As the year comes to a close I feel some clichéd compulsion to review ABR’s progress. Our place in the literary magazine market is assured due to the fine editors who have preceded me. There seems to be an increased awareness of ABR out there among the general reading public and this is verified by our increased sales. Of course, our position has been enhanced by a general push to bring the boo ... (read more)

In 1901 the cultural Zionist Israel Zangwill, borrowing a phrase from Lord Shaftesbury, declared, ‘Palestine is a country without a people, the Jews are a people without a country.’ That cliché has continued to influence the impasse in the Middle East for almost a century. Advocates for Israel’s policies seem to relish rehearsing the notion that the Palestinians have never missed an opport ... (read more)