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October 2018, no. 405

October 2018, no. 405

Welcome to the October Environment issue of ABR! Highlights include:

• Review of the Month: Felicity Plunkett on Behrouz Boochani’s powerful memoir No Friend But the Mountains
• Susan Reid looks at Adani and the coal industry’s influence on Australian politics
• Tim Flannery on Bruno Latour’s new book on climate change
• Cassandra Atherton on Haruki Murakami’s new novel
• Fiona Gruber on Chloe Hooper’s book on Black Saturday
• Lauren Rickards comments on coal, fossils, and aluminium
• Nicole Abadee on Markus Zusak’s new novel Bridge of Clay
• Gail Bell on Leigh Sales’s new book on unexpected trauma

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Full Contents

Music

Gillian Wills reviews 'A Coveted Possession: The rise and fall of the piano in Australia' by Michael Atherton

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Art

David McInnis reviews 'Shakespeare’s Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature' by Stuart Kells

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Art

Patrick McCaughey reviews 'Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters' by Martin Gayford

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Fiction

Margaret Robson Kett reviews four recent Young Adults novels

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Fiction

Jay Daniel Thompson reviews 'The Yellow House' by Emily O’Grady

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Essay Collection

Robin Gerster reviews 'On War and Writing' by Samuel Hynes

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Essay Collection

Brian Matthews reviews 'Antipodean Perspective: Selected Writings of Bernard Smith' edited by Rex Butler and Sheridan Palmer

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Religion

Paul Collins reviews 'The Fountain of Public Prosperity: Evangelical Christians in Australian History 1740–1914' by Stuart Piggin and Robert D. Linder

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History

Alan Atkinson on 'Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World' by Peter Moore

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History

Peter McPhee reviews 'Napoleon: Passion, death and resurrection 1815–1840' by Philip Dwyer

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Fiction

Sarah Holland-Batt reviews 'The Children’s House' by Alice Nelson

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Fiction

Brenda Walker reviews 'The Year of the Farmer' by Rosalie Ham

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Fiction

Jane Sullivan reviews 'Too Much Lip' by Melissa Lucashenko

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Fiction

Cassandra Atherton reviews 'Killing Commendatore' by Haruki Murakami

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Fiction

Nicole Abadee reviews 'Bridge of Clay' by Markus Zusak

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Poetry

'Landscape with Magic Lantern Slides' by Lisa Gorton

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Environmental Studies

Frank Bongiorno reviews 'City Life: The new urban Australia' by Seamus O’Hanlon

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Environmental Studies

Paul Humphries reviews 'Wild Sea: A history of the Southern Ocean' by Joy McCann

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Environmental Studies

Keegan O’Connor reviews 'A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A year of keeping bees' by Helen Jukes

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Environment

Andrea Gaynor reviews 'The Allure of Fungi' by Alison Pouliot

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Environmental Studies

'Aluminium dreams' by Lauren Rickards

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Environmental Studies

Libby Robin reviews 'Cane Toad Wars' by Rick Shine

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Fiction

Jack Rowland reviews 'The Second Cure' by Margaret Morgan

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Environmental Studies

Michael Adams reviews 'Tidalectics: Imagining an oceanic worldview through art and science' edited by Stefanie Hessler

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Environmental Studies

Fiona Gruber reviews 'The Arsonist' by Chloe Hooper

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Environmental Studies

Tim Flannery reviews 'Down to Earth: Politics in the new climate regime' by Bruno Latour

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Environmental Studies

Susan Reid reviews 'Adani and the War Over Coal' by Quentin Beresford

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Poetry

'Wittgenstein, 1951, Peppered Moth' by Davina Alison

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Environmental Studies

Sara Savage reviews 'Urban Choreography: Central Melbourne 1985–' edited by Kim Dovey, Rob Adams, and Ronald Jones

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Politics

Ben Wellings reviews 'Counter-Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat' by Jan Zielonka

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Essay Collection

Francesca Sasnaitis reviews 'The World Was Whole' by Fiona Wright

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Memoir

Danielle Clode reviews 'Turmoil: Letters from the brink' by Robyn Williams

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Memoir

Gail Bell reviews 'Any Ordinary Day' by Leigh Sales

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History

Sheila Fitzpatrick reviews 'A Spy Named Orphan: The enigma of Donald Maclean' by Roland Philipps

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Fiction

David Dick reviews 'Satan Repentant' by Michael Aiken

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Fiction

Anna MacDonald reviews 'Beautiful Revolutionary' by Laura Elizabeth Woollett

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Fiction

Gillian Dooley reviews 'The Coves' by David Whish-Wilson

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Fiction

Sophie Frazer reviews 'The Hunter and Other Stories of Men' by David Cohen

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Journals

Felicity Plunkett reviews 'No Friend But the Mountains' by Behrouz Boochani

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Letters

Letters to the Editor - October 2018

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Open Page

Open Page with Kristina Olsson

Publisher of the Month

Chris Feik is Publisher of the Month

Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - October 2018

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Climate Change

Lauren Rickards reviews 'Sunburnt Country: The history and future of climate change in Australia' by Joëlle Gergis

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