A urgent stocktake of the Black Summer, which burned a fifth of Australia’s forests.
Tag: Nonfiction
Review: Witness by Louise Milligan
A blistering indictment of the treatment of victims of sex crimes by the legal system.
Review: Toxic by Richard Flanagan
Toxic is a polemic against Tasmania’s farmed salmon industry.
Review: Eating With My Mouth Open by Sam van Zweden
Eating With My Mouth open is an investigation of food, body and memory, and all the things they can mean.
Review: Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
A virtuosic collection of essays about the meanings we invest in nature and animals.
Review: White Beech by Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer writes that restoring the land is her proudest achievement.
Review: Sea People by Christina Thompson
A riveting and passionate tale of intellectual inquiry into the origins of Polynesia.
Review: Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend
The Fifth Sun is a fascinating, scholarly and moving portrayal of a people surviving colonisation.
The best books I’ve read 2020
The books that have had the biggest impact on me this year.
Review: Living With The Anthropocene (edited by Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner and Jenny Newell)
The writers in this collection grapple with what it means to be “planetary” beings: how our individual actions can seem so small, but have global consequences.
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