Best of 2020
It's almost Christmas!
COVID-19 remains a huge challenge.
But despite all the tests of this year, Eliza and Geraldine both feel there's lots to celebrate.
Here's their pick of 2020:
Olive, Again – Elizabeth Strout
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/olive-again-9780241985540
Rodham – Curtis Sittenfeld
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/rodham-9780857526137
A Promised Land – Barack Obama
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/a-promised-land-9780241491515
The Designated Mourner – Fintan O’Toole on Joe Biden
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/01/16/joe-biden-designated-mourner/
Catch & Kill – Ronan Farrow
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-catch-and-kill-podcast-with-ronan-farrow/id1487730212
Intrigue, Mayday – BBC Radio 4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p6fd
Derry Girls
https://www.netflix.com/au/title/80238565
The Bureau
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/the-bureau
The Circus
https://www.stan.com.au/watch/the-circus
The Light that Failed - Ivan Krastev
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-light-that-failed-9780141988108
In Defence of Shame - Tanveer Ahmed
https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/In-Defence-of-Shame--Tanveer-Ahmed_p_368.html
Democracy’s After Life - Fintan O’Toole
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/12/03/democracys-afterlife/
‘The Glass Curtain: Classical Music’s Problem With Women’ - The Monthly - Anna Goldsworthy
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2020/december/1606741200/anna-goldsworthy/glass-curtain#mtr
Max - Alex Miller
https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/other-books/Max-Alex-Miller-9781760878160
The Eleventh - ABC Radio
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/the-eleventh/
The Prime Ministers - LBC
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-prime-ministers/id1535436589
Intrigue, The Ratline - BBC Radio
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06lh2b5
‘Smileyfication’ London Review of Books, 1980
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v02/n05/ian-hamilton/smileyfication
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