Book Reviews
The politics of electrical power
Power Play: The Fight to Control the World’s Electricity by Sharon Beder
By Joanne Laurier, April 7, 2004
Power Play: The Fight to Control the World’s Electricity by Sharon Beder; 400 pages; New York: The New Press, 2003
A series of neo-reformist illusions
The Real World Economic Outlook 2003 The Legacy of Globalization: Debt and Deflation, Anne Pettifor (editor), Palgrave Macmillan
By Nick Beams, February 10, 2004
This book, written as a challenge to the World Economic Outlook reports issued by the International Monetary Fund and comprising a collection of articles critical of the dominant economic order, is a ...
An old man’s anger: Absolute Friends, by John le Carré
By Stefan Steinberg, February 6, 2004
Absolute Friends, by John le Carré, 455 pages, Boston: Little, Brown, 2003
Poisoning for profit: Book exposes US corporate cover-up of toxic pollution
Part 2
By E. Galen, February 3, 2004
The is the concluding part of a two-part review of Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution, by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner (University of California Press, 2002). The firs...
Poisoning for profit: Book exposes US corporate cover-up of toxic pollution
Part 1
By E. Galen, February 2, 2004
Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution, by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, University of California Press
Politics and reality in fiction
By Sandy English, January 15, 2004
Roscoe by William Kennedy, New York: Penguin, 2002, 294 pp.
The probability of dissent
The Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
By Sandy English, November 5, 2003
The Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, New York, Hyperion, 2002.
A moving novel exploring the Rwanda tragedy
Review of Gil Courtemanche’s A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
By Linda Slattery, November 4, 2003
Gil Courtemanche, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, ISBN: 1400041074, Canongate Books Ltd., 2003, Patricia Claxton (trans.).
Former weapons inspector exposes “Big Lie” of Iraqi WMD
By Joanne Laurier, October 17, 2003
Former United Nations chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter’s latest book, Frontier Justice: Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Bushwhacking of America, is a scathing critique of the Bush admini...
A glib satire of contemporary life in the US
Fury by Salman Rushdie
By Gabriela Notaras, September 12, 2003
Fury, Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, is an abysmal work. The book purports to explore the personal demons or “furies”, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, murder, rape, incest and ot...
Rabbit Proof Fence translated into French
By our correspondent, September 3, 2003
Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence, one of the most popular books by an Australian Aboriginal writer, has now been translated and published in France. Written by Doris Pilkington in 1996, and subsequently ...
Spinoza Reconsidered
Jonathan Israel, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 Oxford University Press
By Ann Talbot, August 26, 2003
I last reviewed Jonathan Israel’s Radical Enlightenment on this site in 2001 just after it came out in hardback. Why return to it now? The book itself would justify another review since it is a ...
