October 2019, no. 415
Welcome to our annual Environment issue – guest edited by the award-winning young historian Billy Griffiths. Never has this themed issue been more timely. Many of the contributors share our concern – and that of countless environmentalists and scientists globally (including Greta Thunberg, who appears on our cover) – about the climate crisis. Elsewhere we have reviews of books by writers such as J.M. Coetzee, Heather Rose, Lisa Taddeo and Lisa Gorton. We also name the twenty most popular twenty-first-century novels as voted by readers in the ABR FAN poll.
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Full Contents
Poet of the Month
Lisa Gorton is Poet of the Month
Biography
Don Dunstan: The visionary politician who changed Australia by Angela Woollacott
Politics
The Politics of the Common Good: Dispossession in Australia by Jane R. Goodall
by Judith Brett
History
The Great Cauldron: A history of southeastern Europe by Marie-Janine Calic, translated by Elizabeth Janik
by Iva Glisic
Biography
Hitler: A Life by Peter Longerich, translated by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe
by Philip Dwyer
Open Page
Open Page with Trent Dalton
Fiction
Syria’s Secret Library: Reading and redemption in a town under siege by Mike Thomson
Environmental Studies
‘We’ll be going this earth’: an environmental survey
by Lynette Russell, et al.
Environmental Studies
The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat: A rodent history of Australia by Tim Bonyhady
by Libby Robin
Environmental Studies
Wind Turbine Syndrome: A communicated disease by Simon Chapman and Fiona Crichton
by James Dunk
Environmental Studies
Project RAINFALL: The Secret History of Pine Gap by Tom Gilling
Environmental Studies
A Future History of Water by Andrea Ballestero & Anthropogenic Rivers by Jerome Whitington
Environmental Studies
Sludge: Disaster on Victoria’s goldfields by Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies
Environmental Studies
Asbestos in Australia: From boom to dust edited by Lenore Layman and Gail Phillips
Literary Studies
Favourite Australian Novels of the twenty-first century
Environmental Studies
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown
Advances