Book Reviews
Eclectic and lifeless—My Life as a Fake
By Gabriela Zabala-Notaras, February 13, 2006
My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey, Random House, Australia 2003
An account of the attack on science in the US
By Joe Kay, February 9, 2006
The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney, Basic Books, New York, 2005, 351 pp., US$24.95, CAN$34.95
Born into disadvantage—Australian children face growing inequality
Children of the Lucky Country? How Australian society has turned its back on children and why children matter, by Fiona Stanley, Sue Richardson and Margot Prior, Macmillan, Sydney 2005.
By Erika Zimmer, January 30, 2006
Child health research professor Fiona Stanley, whom the Howard government named Australian of the Year in 2003, has co-authored Children of the Lucky Country? a work that brings together wide-ranging ...
Lessons from the Great Flood of 1927
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood and How it Changed America by John M. Barry
By Shannon Jones, January 27, 2006
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi flood and how it changed America, by John M. Barry, Touchstone 1998
The futile pursuit of reformism
Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich
By Clare Dennis, December 28, 2005
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, by Barbara Ehrenreich, Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt 2005
Marx and democratic rights
Tony Evans, The Politics of Human Rights: A global perspective
By Ann Talbot, December 24, 2005
Tony Evans, The Politics of Human Rights: A global perspective, Pluto Press, 2005
The rise of the religious right in Australia
God Under Howard by Marion Maddox
By Laura Tiernan, December 5, 2005
A recently published book charting the rise of Christian fundamentalism in Australia offers a timely examination of what has become a striking feature of contemporary political life. Marion Maddox, a ...
Poignant cries for freedom
Another country, edited by Rosie Scott and Thomas Keneally, Halstead Press and the Sydney branch of PEN
By Gabriela Zabala-Notaras, November 24, 2005
Another Country is a valuable collection of writings by asylum seekers and refugees who have been held in Australian immigration prisons under the government’s mandatory detention policies. Edit...
Writing off Europe
By Gabriela Zabala-Notaras and Ismet Redzovic, November 16, 2005
Dead Europe, by Christos Tsiolkas, Sydney: Random House, 2005, 411 pp.
Novel about POWs wins PEN/Faulkner Award
By Sandy English, November 10, 2005
War Trash, by Ha Jin, New York: Pantheon Books, 2004, 352 pp.
A Little History is a dangerous thing
By Ann Talbot, November 5, 2005
E.H. Gombrich, A Little History of the World, translated by Caroline Mustill, Yale, £14.99
Lincoln’s Cooper Union address—an appeal to reason
By Shannon Jones, July 5, 2005
Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President, by Harold Holzer, Simon & Schuster (2004) ISBN 0-7432-2466-3
