December 2019, no. 417
Welcome to the December issue of ABR – always our most anticipated edition of the year because of the inclusion of Books of the Year. Thirty-three leading critics and writers nominate their favourite publications of the year. Find out what people like Beejay Silcox, James Ley, Susan Wyndham, Andrea Goldsmith, and Bronwyn Lea most enjoyed reading in 2019. Other highlights include Peter Rose on Helen Garner’s brilliant and defiant diaries; Zora Simic on the legacies of sexual harassment; Angela Woollacott on Margaret Simons’s biography of Penny Wong; and Chris Flynn on Elliot Perlman’s new novel. Elsewhere, legendary journalist Brian Toohey reviews Edward Snowden’s memoirs, Monash historian Christina Twomey laments the ‘terror in extraterritoriality’, and the poet Michael Hofmann contributes a brilliant satire on Donal Dump (aka Donald Trump).
Full Contents
The Best Australian Science Writing 2019 edited by Bianca Nogrady
The Hilton Bombing: Evan Pederick and the Ananda Marga by Imre Salusinszky
The Innocent Reader by Debra Adelaide & Wild About Books by Michael Wilding
West Island: Five twentieth-century New Zealanders in Australia by Stephanie Johnson
Books of the Year 2019
Mallee Country: Land, people, history by Richard Broome et al.
The Impeachers: The trial of Andrew Johnson and the dream of a just nation by Brenda Wineapple
She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey & The Education of Brett Kavanaugh by Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly
News from the Editor's Desk
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