November 2019, no. 416
Welcome to our November issue. Timelily, given recent concerns about government intimidation of whistleblowers and journalists, we lead with a strong article by Kieran Pender on the culture of secrecy and the need for vigilance and protest – not apathy and accommodation. Elsewhere, ABR Fellow Felicity Plunkett reviews Charlotte Wood’s new novel, and last year’s Fellow, Beejay Silcox, reviews the most ballyhooed book of the year, Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, which she finds wanting. In the arts section, leading arts critics and professionals name their arts highlights of the year.
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Publisher of the Month
Madonna Duffy is Publisher of the Month
Memoir
All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking solace in Virginia Woolf by Katharine Smyth
True Crime
Mandatory Murder: A true history of homicide and injustice in an outback town by Steven Schubert
Environmental Studies
The Rising Tide: Among the islands and atolls of the Pacific Ocean by Tom Bamforth
Biography
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion by Tom Segev, translated by Haim Watzman
by Ilana Snyder
Politics
Inside the Greens: The origins and future of the party, the people and the politics by Paddy Manning
by James Walter
Letter collection
Ian Fairweather: A life in letters edited by Claire Roberts and John Thompson
by Morag Fraser
History
Red Meat Republic: A hoof-to-table history of how beef changed America by Joshua Specht
by Cameo Dalley
Advances
News from the Editor's Desk
Letters
Letters to the Editor
by Alan Atkinson, Joanne McDonald, Angus Forbes, Elisabeth Holdsworth, and Tim Flannery