September 2021, no. 435
From Plato to plutocrats, the September issue of ABR brings together the best and worst of the cultural moment. In our cover feature, Joel Deane casts his eye over the ‘ugly truth’ of Facebook’s contemptuous exploitation of users, while in a thought experiment inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin, Elizabeth Oliver identifies more worthy candidates for space travel than Branson and Bezos. Megan Clement reports from Paris on the pass sanitaire and Diane Stubbings reviews Peter Doherty’s plague-year dispatches. Sheila Fitzpatrick is our Critic of the Month and was a judge in this year’s Calibre Prize, for which Anita Punton’s ‘May Day’, printed in this issue, came runner-up. We also feature reviews of new fiction by Jennifer Mills, Colm Tóibín, and Laurent Binet, and new poetry by Toby Fitch, John Hawke, and Song Lin – as well as much, much more!
Full Contents
Mad by the Millions: Mental disorders and the early years of the World Health Organization by Harry Yi-Jui Wu
Thoreau’s Religion: Walden Woods, social justice, and the politics of asceticism by Alda Balthrop-Lewis
Futureproof: 9 rules for humans in the age of automation by Kevin Roose
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli, translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell
The Pleistocene Social Contract: Culture and cooperation in human evolution by Kim Sterelny
What We Carry: Poetry on childbearing edited by Ella Kurz, Simone King, and Claire Delahunty
The Gleaner Song by by Song Lin, translated by Dong Li & Vociferate | 詠 by Emily Sun
Imaginative Possession: Learning to live in the Antipodes by Belinda Probert
The Ways of the Bushwalker: On foot in Australia by Melissa Harper
Sound Citizens: Australian women broadcasters claim their voice, 1923-1956 by Catherine Fisher
The Vetting of Wisdom: Joan Montgomery and the fight for PLC by Kim Rubenstein
Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet home front during World War II by Wendy Z. Goldman and Donald Filtzer
Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man by Thomas Mann, translated by Walter D. Morris
Walter Scott at 250: Looking forward by Caroline McCracken-Flesher and Matthew Wickman
The Oxford Handbook of Dante by Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, and Francesca Southerden
To Kill a Democracy: India’s passage to despotism by Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s battle for domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang
Letters to the Editor
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