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Deb Anderson

Deb Anderson

Deb Anderson is a journalist and Monash University academic, and the author of Endurance: Australian Stories of Drought (2014).

Deb Anderson reviews 'The Uninhabitable Earth: A story of the future' by David Wallace-Wells

May 2019, no. 411 22 April 2019
To a weary and frightened people, fatalism does offer the consolation of lethargic peace ... anger and alarm still signal life. Yi-Fu Tuan (Landscapes of Fear, 1979)   Be afraid. ‘The Uninhabitable Earth’, the viral article published in New York magazine (2017) that was both fêted and scorned for its visceral bluntness, has grown out and up. A scary, 7,000-word portrait of a near-futu ... (read more)

Deb Anderson reviews 'Slow Catastrophes: Living with drought in Australia' by Rebecca Jones

October 2017, no. 395 22 September 2017
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 underrated, historical source for understanding human responses to drought: the humble farm diary. Publishers’ enthusiasm for diaries as authentic historical documents and works of fiction seems as strong as the sc ... (read more)