October 2019, no. 415
October 2019, no. 415
Welcome to our annual Environment issue – guest edited by the award-winning young historian Billy Griffiths. Never has this themed issue been more timely. Many of the contributors share our concern – and that of countless environmentalists and scientists globally (including Greta Thunberg, who appears on our cover) – about the climate crisis. Elsewhere we have reviews of books by writers such as J.M. Coetzee, Heather Rose, Lisa Taddeo and Lisa Gorton. We also name the twenty most popular twenty-first-century novels as voted by readers in the ABR FAN poll.
Full contents
Editorial
Environmental Studies
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Greta Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion, and Angus Forbes
by Tim Flannery -
Asbestos in Australia: From boom to dust edited by Lenore Layman and Gail Phillips
Reviewed by Graeme Davison -
Sludge: Disaster on Victoria’s goldfields by Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies
Reviewed by Alexandra Roginski -
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown
Reviewed by Sheila Fitzpatrick -
A Future History of Water by Andrea Ballestero & Anthropogenic Rivers by Jerome Whitington
Reviewed by Timothy Neale -
Project RAINFALL: The Secret History of Pine Gap by Tom Gilling
Reviewed by Alison Broinowski -
Wind Turbine Syndrome: A communicated disease by Simon Chapman and Fiona Crichton
Reviewed by James Dunk -
The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat: A rodent history of Australia by Tim Bonyhady
Reviewed by Libby Robin -
‘We’ll be going this earth’: an environmental survey
by Lynette Russell, et al.
Fiction
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The Death of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee
Reviewed by James Ley -
Act of Grace by Anna Krien
Reviewed by Alice Nelson -
Hollow Earth by John Kinsella
Reviewed by Chris Flynn -
The Breeding Season by Amanda Niehaus
Reviewed by Fiona Wright -
Bruny by Heather Rose
Reviewed by Nicole Abadee
Commentary
Middle East
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Syria’s Secret Library: Reading and redemption in a town under siege by Mike Thomson
Reviewed by Beejay Silcox
History
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Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the road to war by Tim Bouverie
Reviewed by Glyn Davis -
The Great Cauldron: A history of southeastern Europe by Marie-Janine Calic, translated by Elizabeth Janik
Reviewed by Iva Glisic
Biography
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Hitler: A Life by Peter Longerich, translated by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe
Reviewed by Philip Dwyer -
Don Dunstan: The visionary politician who changed Australia by Angela Woollacott
Reviewed by Christina Slade
Society
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Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Reviewed by Astrid Edwards
Poetry
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Empirical by Lisa Gorton
Reviewed by David McCooey
Advances
Memoir
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The Gap: An Australian paramedic’s summer on the edge by Benjamin Gilmour
Reviewed by Nicholas Bugeja -
Tim Costello: A lot with a little by Tim Costello
Reviewed by Jacqueline Kent
Politics
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The Politics of the Common Good: Dispossession in Australia by Jane R. Goodall
Reviewed by Judith Brett -
Gun Control: What Australia got right (and wrong) by Tom Frame
Reviewed by Kieran Pender -
Addressing Modern Slavery by Justine Nolan and Martijn Boersma
Reviewed by Sayomi Ariyawansa