December 2020, no. 427
Welcome to our last issue for 2020. What a turbulent year it’s been – but also a rousing one for ABR, as the Editor reports in Advances. Highlights of the issue include our perennial favourite, Books of the Year: 33 ABR critics nominate some of their favourite books. The list forms a testament to the resilience of great writing even during a pandemic. Meanwhile, Morag Fraser, reviewing two new edited volumes, imagines what Australia might look like after Covid-19. Nicholas Jose reviews the second volume of Helen Garner’s inimitable diaries, and Frank Bongiorno reviews the new collection of writings from Don Watson. Anna MacDonald finds much to admire in Josephine Rowe’s short tribute to the late Beverley Farmer, and Brenda Niall relishes the task of revisiting the short stories of one of Australia’s greatest writers, Shirley Hazzard. Paul Giles – our Critic of the Month – writes about William Faulkner.
Full Contents
Australian Women Pilots: Amazing true stories of women in the air by Kathy Mexted
Mary’s Last Dance: The untold story of the wife of Mao’s Last Dancer by Mary Li
More Than Mere Words edited by Paul Monaghan and Michael Walsh & Ethnographer and Contrarian edited by Julie D. Finlayson and Frances Morphy
Napoleon and de Gaulle: Heroes and history by Patrice Gueniffey, translated by Steven Rendall
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the power of hope by Jon Meacham
The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry edited by Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington
Open Page with Danielle Clode
Paul Giles is Critic of the Month
Spinning the Secrets of State: Politics and intelligence in Australia by Justin T. McPhee
What Happens Next? edited by Emma Dawson and Janet McCalman & Upturn by Tanya Plibersek
ABR News
Letters to the Editor
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