Book Reviews
Walkerton: Key truths submerged in journalist’s account of contaminated water tragedy
By Carl Bronski, August 14, 2003
Well Of Lies: The Walkerton Water Tragedy by Colin N. Perkel, McLelland & Stewart Ltd, 2002.
Bush’s hatchet man: two biographies of Karl Rove
Bush’s Brain and Boy Genius
By Joanne Laurier, July 19, 2003
Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential by James Moore and Wayne Slater; Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Brains Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of George W. Bush by Lou D...
Investigating the foundations of equality
God, Locke and Equality by Jeremy Waldron
By Ann Talbot, June 16, 2003
Professor Jeremy Waldron’s latest book is an examination of the theory of equality put forward by the seventeenth century English philosopher John Locke. This is a subject that is highly relevant to...
Flaunting rottenness: Plateforme, by Michel Houellebecq
By Alex Lefebvre, May 2, 2003
French novelist Michel Houellebecq has acquired celebrity status in France and, increasingly, abroad as a well-established literary shock jock. His latest novel, Plateforme, has the merit of clearly e...
Henry Ford: American anti-Semitism and the class struggle
By Nancy Russell, April 18, 2003
Henry Ford and the Jews: the Mass Production of Hate by Neil Baldwin, Public Affairs. New York. 2001, paperback release December 17, 2002
"To heighten our awareness of humanity"
Interview with Morris Gleitzman, author of Boy Overboard
By Kaye Tucker, April 16, 2003
Morris Gleitzman, author of Boy Overboard , a children’s novel based on a fictional account of the journey of Afghan child refugees [See: Nurturing a sense of fairness and humanity], spoke with ...
A graphic depiction of everyday life in Iraq
By Robert Stevens, April 10, 2003
Iraq: A report from the inside , by Dilip Hiro, published by Granta (ISBN 1-86207-627-8)
2002 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction: a static view of American life
Richard Russo’s Empire Falls
By Sandy English, March 28, 2003
Richard Russo, Empire Falls , New York: Random House, 2001
Heribert Prantl’s book “Suspicious”
Growth of police-state measures in Germany
By Marius Heuser, March 14, 2003
Heribert Prantl, Suspicious: The authoritarian state and the politics of domestic insecurity, published by Europa 2002, ISBN: 3-203-81041-7
Bush at War: a flattering portrait of a government of the political underworld
Bush at War, by Bob Woodward, 2002, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY.
By Patrick Martin, March 7, 2003
This is the latest in a series of behind-the-scenes books by the Washington Post journalist of Watergate fame. Over the past 16 years Woodward has cranked out a half dozen such volumes on the major in...
Nurturing a sense of fairness and humanity
Boy Overboard by Morris Gleitzman, Puffin Books
By Kaye Tucker, March 4, 2003
Before the US-led attack on Afghanistan in 2001, many Afghan families made hazardous journeys to Australia, clinging to the hope that they would find a country willing to give them political asylum an...
Wall Street Journal editor’s brief for a “Pax Americana”
By Shannon Jones, February 13, 2003
The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power, Max Boot, Basic Books, 2002
