October 2017, no. 395

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October 2017, no. 395

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Ambassadors from Another Time

Ilana Snyder reviews 'Required Reading: Literature in Australian schools since 1945' edited by Tim Dolin, Joanne Jones, and Patricia Dowsett

Mridula Nath Chakraborty reviews 'Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India' by Shashi Tharoor

Richard Noske reviews 'The Australian Bird Guide' by Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Jeff Davies, Peter Marsack, and Kim Franklin

Matthew Chrulew reviews 'Zoo Ethics: The challenges of compassionate conservation' by Jenny Gray

Peter Christoff reviews 'Burn Out: The endgame for fossil fuels' by Dieter Helm

A survey of environmental writing

Lauren Rickards reviews 'Defiant Earth: The fate of the humans in the Anthropocene' by Clive Hamilton

'Among Trees' by Philip Jones

Kate Griffiths reviews 'Sunlight and Seaweed: An argument for how to feed, power, and clean up the world' by Tim Flannery

Simon Caterson reviews 'A Legacy of Spies' by John le Carré

David Whish-Wilson reviews 'City of Crows' by Chris Womersley

Jay Daniel Thompson reviews 'Wimmera' by Mark Brandi

Gretchen Shirm reviews 'Rain Birds' by Harriet McKnight

Roger McDonald reviews 'The Songs of Trees: Stories from nature’s great connectors' by David George Haskell

Nicole Abadee reviews 'Home Fire' by Kamila Shamsie

Shannon Burns reviews 'The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc' by Ali Alizadeh

'The New Maps Keep a Weather Eye' by Judith Bishop

'Attention, Please' by Peter Rose

Open Page with Josephine Wilson

Tim Flannery reviews 'Call of the Reed Warbler: A new agriculture – a new earth' by Charles Massy

'Adani and the Galilee Basin' by Susan Reid

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

Beejay Silcox reviews 'The Life to Come' by Michelle de Kretser

Barney Zwartz reviews 'Cardinal: The rise and fall of George Pell' by Louise Milligan

'Why should you care about the Russian Revolution?' by Mark Edele

Letters to the Editor - October 2017

News from the Editor's Desk - October 2017