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December 2024, no. 471

December 2024, no. 471

In November, ABR surveys some of Australia’s most stimulating thinkers on Australia-US relations, asking whether our almost compulsive fascination with the US election is good for Australian democracy. Elsewhere, Josh Bornstein shows how corporations feed the social-media beast, and Ruth Balint cautions against mob politics in reporting. Paul Giles praises Tim Winton’s new novel and its ‘colloquial brevity’, and our reviewers consider new works by Michelle de Kretser, Alex Miller, Rachel Kushner, and Alan Hollinghurst. We examine life writing on Nancy Pelosi and Race Matthews, and books on film, theatre, law, heritage, robot tales, medicine, information networks, and much, much more.

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Memoir

A Season of Death: A memoir by Mark Raphael Baker

Memoir

The Place of Tides by James Rebanks

Memoir

The Season by Helen Garner

Fiction

Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq, translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside

Fiction

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

Fiction

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel

Fiction

Mural by Stephen Downes

Society

The Privileged Few by Clive Hamilton and Myra Hamilton

Poetry

Raging Grace: Australian writers speak out on disability edited by Andy Jackson, Esther Ottaway, and Kerry Shying

Literary Studies

Why Surrealism Matters by Mark Polizzotti

Spain

Madrid: A new biography by Luke Stegemann

Memoir

Fragile Creatures: A memoir by Khin Myint

Biography

Race Mathews: A life in politics by Iola Mathews

Spectacles of Waste by Warwick Anderson

Memoir

Three Wild Dogs and the Truth by Markus Zusak