October 2024, no. 469
This month ABR sharpens its memory, looking back at Australia’s involvement in East Timor on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its liberation. We ask what the US invasion of Afghanistan revealed, how referendums have been lost and won, and if we’ve heeded the lessons of the pandemic. Bridget Griffen-Foley reviews a book on media moguls, Scott Stephens explains why 2024 looks a lot like 1939, and we consider ancient India’s transformation of the world. Shannon Burns, Michael Winkler, Heather Neilson and Alex Cothren review novels from Robbie Arnott, Brian Castro, Emily Maquire and Malcolm Knox. ABR Arts interviews pianist Angela Hewitt and reviews The Australian Ballet’s Oscar and MTC’s Topdog/Underdog. There’s Proust, Shakespeare, new poetry, poetry reviews and more.
Full Contents
People Power: How Australian referendums are lost and won by George Williams and David Hume
How to Lose a War: The story of America’s intervention in Afghanistan by Amin Saikal
Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism: How we crushed the curve but lost the race by Steven Hamilton and Richard Holden
The Swann Way by Marcel Proust, translated from the French by Brian Nelson
The Golden Road: How ancient India transformed the world by William Dalrymple
Telling Lives: The Seymour Biography Lecture 2005-2023 edited by Chris Wallace
In Search of John Christian Watson: Labor’s first prime minister by Michael Easson
Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-than-human histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin by Emily O’Gorman
Terminus: Westward expansion, China, and the end of the American empire by Stuart Rollo
Nonhuman Witnessing: War, data, and ecology after the end of the world by Michael Richardson
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