September 2020, no. 424
Welcome to the September issue of ABR! Our cover story, written by well-known musician and musicologist Peter Tregear, concerns the plight of classical music in the age of Covid-19. Music – like theatre and opera and film – has been devastated (silenced almost) by new restrictions and social isolation. When the lockdown is over, what will be retrievable, and will the repertoire be fundamentally reshaped? Peter Rose, in a diary piece, worries about the new era of conformism and prohibition and asks, ‘What personal freedoms are being sacrificed along the way?’ Megan Clement is underwhelmed by Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s new book on women and leadership. We publish Kate Middleton’s poignant essay ‘The Dolorimeter’, runner-up in the 2020 Calibre Essay Prize. And Don Anderson, Morag Fraser, and James Bradley review new novels by Kate Grenville, Amanda Lohrey, and David Mitchell, respectively.
Full Contents
The Details: On love, death and reading by Tegan Bennett Daylight
Nerve: A personal journey through the science of fear by Eva Holland
Mysteries of Cinema: Reflections on film theory, history and culture by Adrian Martin
Displaced: A rural life by John Kinsella
A Place for Everything: The curious history of alphabetical order by Judith Flanders
How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance education by Scott Newstok
Laurie Duggan is Poet of the Month
Open Page with Amanda Lohrey
Paul Kelly: The man, the music and the life in-between by Stuart Coupe
The Road by John Martinkus & Too Close to Ignore edited by Mark Moran and Jodie Curth-Bibb
Women and Leadership: Real lives, real lessons by Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Hidden Hand: Exposing how the Chinese Communist Party is reshaping the world by Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas by Corey Robin
News from ABR
Letters to the Editor
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