December 2021, no. 438

The December issue has arrived and rounds out the year in customary style: a stockingful of reviews, essays, interviews, and our annual ‘Books of the Year’ feature, in which thirty-eight ABR critics highlight their year’s most memorable reads. Paul Muldoon reviews Bruno Latour’s eco-philosophical fable, After Lockdown. While Latour takes inspiration from the termite, Krissy Kneen considers the ways of the dugong in her Calibre Prize-shortlisted essay, a poignant exploration of identity, bodies, and death. In politics, Morag Fraser reviews Judith Brett’s collection of essays and Frank Bongiorno reflects on Noel Pearson’s life in the public eye. The issue looks at fiction by Simone de Beauvoir, the Booker-shortlisted Anuk Arudpragasam, Garry Disher, and Inga Simpson. The literary careers of Gillian Mears and Gerald Murnane are retraced by Brenda Walker and Peter Craven, respectively. Traipsing from Dante’s inferno to China to Western Sydney, the December issue will keep even the most intellectually gluttonous reader sated through the festive season.
Full Contents
Ideas to Save Your Life: Philosophy for wisdom, solace and pleasure by Michael McGirr
Dark Matter: Independent filmmaking in the 21st century by Michael Winterbottom
A Matter of Obscenity: The politics of censorship in modern England by Christopher Hilliard
Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears by Bernadette Brennan
Vandemonians: The repressed history of colonial Victoria by Janet McCalman
We, the Robots?: Regulating artificial intelligence and the limits of the law by Simon Chesterman
The Women of Little Lon: Sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne by Barbara Minchinton
A Life in Words: Collected writings from Gallipoli to the Melbourne Cup by Les Carlyon
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