Published 9 December 20089 December 2008 · Main Posts lists for 2008 admin For some reason, the production of ‘best of’ lists seems to start earlier in the USA than Australia. Both the New York Times and Salon have given their top tens for 2008, which are duly listed below. The NYT list goes like this: FICTION DANGEROUS LAUGHTER: Thirteen Stories By Steven Millhauser. MERCY By Toni Morrison. NETHERLAND By Joseph O’Neill. 2666 By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. UNACCUSTOMED EARTH By Jhumpa Lahiri. NONFICTION THE DARK SIDE: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals By Jane Mayer. THE FOREVER WAR By Dexter Filkins. NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF By Julian Barnes. THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING Death and the American Civil War By Drew Gilpin Faust. THE WORLD IS WHAT IT IS The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul By Patrick French. Alfred A. Knopf, $30. Salon‘s version runs: FICTION 2666 by Roberto Bolaño A Person of Interest by Susan Choi The Likeness by Tana French Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher NONFICTION Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order by Joan Wickersham admin More by admin › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 28 March 20249 April 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.