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Deb Anderson

The Uninhabitable Earth: A story of the future by David Wallace-Wells

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May 2019, no. 411
Deb Anderson reviews 'The Uninhabitable Earth: A story of the future' by David Wallace-Wells

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-future Earth razed by climate change has matured into a deeper, darker treatise on ... 

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Slow Catastrophes: Living with drought in Australia by Rebecca Jones

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October 2017, no. 395
Deb Anderson reviews 'Slow Catastrophes: Living with drought in Australia' by Rebecca Jones

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 ...

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Endurance: Australian Stories of Drought by Deb Anderson

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April 2016, no. 380
Emily O'Gorman reviews 'Endurance: Australian Stories of Drought' by Deb Anderson

The Millennium Drought already looms large in Australia's recent past. It has joined the ranks of the Federation Drought and other acute, lengthy dry periods that have national resonance and are reflected on by historians, farmers, and politicians alike as defining moments in Australia's history. These droughts are etched into landscapes and people's minds, bodies, ...