November 2024, no. 470
In November, ABR surveys some of Australia’s most stimulating thinkers on Australia-US relations, asking whether our almost compulsive fascination with the US election is good for Australian democracy. Elsewhere, Josh Bornstein shows how corporations feed the social-media beast, and Ruth Balint cautions against mob politics in reporting. Paul Giles praises Tim Winton’s new novel and its ‘colloquial brevity’, and our reviewers consider new works by Michelle de Kretser, Alex Miller, Rachel Kushner, and Alan Hollinghurst. We examine life writing on Nancy Pelosi and Race Matthews, and books on film, theatre, law, heritage, robot tales, medicine, information networks, and much, much more.
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United States
The Art of Power: My story as America’s first woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi
by Marilyn Lake
Politics
A Better Australia: Politics, public policy and how to achieve lasting reform by John Brumby, Scott Hamilton, and Stuart Kells
Information
Nexus: A brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
Business
Working for the Brand: How corporations are destroying free speech by Josh Bornstein
Juice by Tim Winton
by Paul Giles
Playground by Richard Powers
Journalism
The Holocaust and Australian Journalism: Reporting and reckoning by Fay Anderson
by Ruth Balint
Classics
The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse edited by Christopher Childers
Classics
The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the present by Oswyn Murray
History
Beyond the Broken Years: Australian military history in 1000 books by Peter Stanley
Military History
The Battle of the Generals: MacArthur, Blamey and the defence of Australia in World War II by Roland Perry
Every Living Thing: The great and deadly race to know all life by Jason Roberts
Dark City: True stories of crimes, cock-ups, crooks and cops by John Silvester
Voyagers: Our journey into the Anthropocene by Lauren Fuge
by Dave Witty