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10 March 2008
A scholar's upside down pyramid scheme: Peter Gay's
Modernism
28 February 2008
A superficial analysis of global capitalism--Part
2
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by
Naomi Klein, Allen Lane: 2007
27 February 2008
A superficial analysis of global capitalism--Part
1
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi
Klein, Allen Lane: 2007
8 February 2008
75 years since the Nazi assumption of power
Hitler's "intelligible response" to the contradictions
of global capitalism
The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze
25 January 2008
Trying too hard in the wrong places: Junot Díaz's
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
21 January 2008
A
lively and engaging walk through history for children
30 November 2007
Edmund
Wilson's literary essays and reviews from 1920 to 1950: Just
in time
9 November 2007
Bolsheviks in Power - Professor
Alexander Rabinowitch's important study of the first year of
soviet power
25 October 2007
World War Z: Monsters of
this society's own making
6 October 2007
Recycling Stalinist lies about the Spanish Civil War
El Escudo de la Republica by Angel Viñas
24 September 2007
Use, exchange, literary values and an American classic:
Jack Kerouac’s On the Road turns fifty
20 September 2007
After
the storm: James Lee Burke answers Katrina's wrath with his own
18 September 2007
A fighter for Marxism in America
James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary
Left, 1890-1928, by Bryan D. Palmer. University of Illinois
Press, 2007, 542 pp.
20 August 2007
Germany:
"Human Rights in Times of Terror" by Rolf Gössner
1 August 2007
Two
novels about America's future: writers need a new perspective
17 July 2007
A
letter on a forum with Norman Mailer and Günter Grass in
New York
15 May 2007
John
Henry: From folk legend to Communist superhero
8 May 2007
The Unknown Terrorist:
A novel about the "war on terror"
20 March 2007
A lesson from history regarding Mr. Blair
Edward Pearce's The Great Man, Sir Robert Walpole
15 March 2007
Science, religion and society: Richard Dawkins's The
God Delusion
12 February 2007
Andrew Stern's Getting
America Back on Track
More right-wing proposals from the American labor bureaucracy
6 November 2006
Dennett's dangerous idea
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon,
by Daniel Dennett, Viking Adult, 2006, 464 pages, $26
5 October 2006
The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander
Hamilton and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound
Sovereignty
History of an early American uprising
31 August 2006
A timely reminder of America's Enlightenment origins
Washington's Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer
25 August 2006
John Updike's Terrorist
11 August 2006
William Jennings Bryan and the rise and decline of
the Progressive Era
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan by Michael
Kazin
15 July 2006
Rehashing ideological clichés
One year since Udo di Fabio published his book The Culture
of Freedom
26 June 2006
Propaganda in the guise of a novel
Pretty Birds by Scott Simon, Australia, Hodder 2005, 351pp.
17 June 2006
How Blair's government fleeces British workers on
behalf of business
Plundering the Public Sector
25 May 2006
The Da Vinci Code, novel
and film, and 'countercultural' myth
9 May 2006
Letters
on "Hegel, Marx, Engels and the Origins of Marxism"
Some insights into American life as it is: Doctorow's
Sweet Land Stories
3 May 2006
Hegel, Marx, Engels, and the Origins of Marxism
A review of Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx
by Tom Rockmore
2 May 2006
Hegel, Marx, Engels, and the Origins of Marxism
A review of Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx
by Tom Rockmore
17 April 2006
A closer look at Kierkegaard
Review of Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography, by Joachim
Garff
28 March 2006
Pioneering
modernist exhibition: a cultural turning point for 1930s Australia
7 March 2006
Australia's secret or not-so-secret past
The Secret River, by Kate Grenville, Text Publishing,
2005
13 February 2006
Eclectic and lifeless--My Life as a Fake
by Peter Carey
9 February 2006
An account of the attack on science in the US
The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney
30 January 2006
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
28 December 2005
The futile pursuit of reformism
Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich
24 December 2005
Marx and democratic rights:
Tony Evans, The Politics of Human Rights: A global perspective
5 December 2005
The rise of the religious right in Australia
God Under Howard by Marion Maddox
24 November 2005
Poignant cries for freedom
Another country, edited by Rosie Scott and Thomas Keneally,
Halstead Press and the Sydney branch of PEN
16 November 2005
Writing off Europe
Dead Europe, by Christos Tsiolkas
10 November 2005
Novel about POWs wins PEN/Faulkner Award
War Trash, by Ha Jin
5 November 2005
A Little History is a dangerous
thing
E.H. Gombrich, A Little History of the World
5 July 2005
Lincoln's Cooper Union address--an appeal to reason
Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln
President, by Harold Holzer
6 June 2005
Life as a low-wage worker in Australia
Dirt Cheap, Life at the wrong end of the job market by
Elisabeth Wynhausen, Macmillan, Sydney 2005
3 June 2005
Review of Robert Service's Stalin. A Biography
Part two
2 June 2005
Review of Robert Service's Stalin. A Biography
Part one
24 May 2005
Hack work not scholarship: the decay of American liberalism
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in the Age of Terror
by Michael Ignatieff, Edinburgh University Press 2004
14 March 2005
Military interference in American film production
Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon shapes and censors the
movies by David L. Robb
17 February 2005
Is this a novel of genuine anguish?
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, New York: Doubleday,
2003, 376 pp.
27 January 2005
The dawn of reformism in the US
Triangle: The Fire that Changed America, by David Von
Drehle
3 January 2005
The drug industry's chokehold on America's health care
The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and
What to do About it, by Marcia Angell M.D.
18 December 2004
Anticommunism run amok : the life of Senator Pat McCarran
Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great
American Communist Hunt, by Michael J. Ybarra
9 December 2004
What price an American Empire?--Part Three
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by
Niall Ferguson
8 December 2004
What price an American Empire?--Part Two Colossus:
The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson
7 December 2004
What price an American empire?--Part One
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by
Niall Ferguson
17 November 2004
An eyewitness account of Israeli occupation
When the Bulul Stopped Singing, by Raja Shehadeh
1 November 2004
They Were in Search of Life. Suicide: the Consequences
of German Deportation Policies
An indictment of Germany's refugee policy
9 September 2004
Recent
older children's fiction: a new golden age?--Part 3
8 September 2004
Recent
older children's fiction: a new golden age?--Part 2
7 September 2004
Recent
older children's fiction: a new golden age?--Part 1
6 September 2004
"Best" short stories of 2003 could do better
21 August 2004
An
exposé of dishonest media coverage of the Israel-Palestine
conflict
13 August 2004
Standing
up to a right-wing witch hunt
4 August 2004
Anthony
Sampson surveys a transformed Britain 40 years on--Part two
3 August 2004
Anthony
Sampson surveys a transformed Britain 40 years on--Part one
23 June 2004
Russian liberal intelligentsia's view of the Kremlin
under Yeltsin and Putin
Tales of a Kremlin Digger, by Elena Tregubova
2 June 2004
The
enduring significance of the Emancipation Proclamation
7 April 2004
The politics of electrical power
Power Play: The Fight to Control the World's Electricity
by Sharon Beder
10 February 2004
A series of neo-reformist illusions
The Real World Economic Outlook 2003
The Legacy of Globalization: Debt and Deflation
6 February 2004
An old man's anger: Absolute Friends, by John
le Carré
2 February 2004
Poisoning for profit: Book exposes US corporate cover-up
of toxic pollution
Part 1
Part 2
15 January 2004
Politics and reality in fiction
Roscoe by William Kennedy
5 November 2003
The probability of dissent
The Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
4 November 2003
A moving novel exploring the Rwanda tragedy
Review of Gil Courtemanche's A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
17 October 2003
Former
weapons inspector exposes "Big Lie" of Iraqi WMD
16 September 2003
Nick Beams reviews Keith Windschuttle's The Fabrication
of Aboriginal History
An assault on historical truth
Part 1
12 September 2003
A glib satire of contemporary life in the US
Fury by Salman Rushdie
3 September 2003
Rabbit Proof Fence translated
into French
26 August 2003
Spinoza Reconsidered
Jonathan Israel, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the
Making of Modernity 1650-1750 Oxford University Press
14 August 2003
Walkerton:
Key truths submerged in journalist's account of contaminated
water tragedy
19 July 2003
Bush's hatchet man: two biographies of Karl Rove
Bush's Brain and Boy Genius
16 June 2003
Investigating
the foundations of equality
16 May 2003
Thai
toy factory fire: 10 years after the world's worst industrial
inferno
2 May 2003
Flaunting rottenness: Plateforme, by Michel
Houellebecq
18 April 2003
Henry
Ford: American anti-Semitism and the class struggle
16 April 2003
"To heighten our awareness of humanity"
Interview with Morris Gleitzman, author of Boy Overboard
10 April 2003
A
graphic depiction of everyday life in Iraq
28 March 2003
2002 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction: a static view
of American life:
Richard Russo's Empire Falls
14 March 2003
Heribert Prantl's book "Suspicious"
Growth of police-state measures in Germany
7 March 2003
Bush at War: a flattering
portrait of a government of the political underworld
4 March 2003
Nurturing a sense of fairness and humanity
Boy Overboard by Morris Gleitzman, Puffin Books
13 February 2003
Wall Street Journal editor's
brief for a "Pax Americana"
9 September 2002
A forceful reminder of the plight of seafarers and
immigrants
The Death Ship by Ret Marut/B. Traven
3 September 2002
The FBI and Albert Einstein
The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against the
World's Most Famous Scientist
27 April 2002
British foreign policy adviser calls for a new imperialism
The postmodern state and the world order, Re-ordering
the world--the long-term implications of 11 September
24 April 2002
"Cover-up
of Convenience--the Hidden Scandal of Lockerbie"
17 April 2002
Physiology,
sociology and murder: a scientist looks at violence in America
15 April 2002
Evading serious issues
The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
9 April 2002
Inside and outside the family - Alice Munro's short
stories
22 March 2002
Inside and outside the family
Alice Munro's short stories
16 March 2002
Trapped in Moscow: Exile and Stalinist Persecution, by Reinhard Müller
Stalin's persecution of German communists
6 March 2002
It didn't happen here:
Why socialism failed in the United States
The failure of reformism, not socialism
8 December 2001
The
fascist roots of Germany's post-war Criminal Police Office
7 November 2001
Novel questions media hysteria over children who kill
Border Crossing, by Pat Barker
5 October 2001
Carnegie Medal for children's fiction:
Naidoo's story of two young refugees wins 2001 prize
30 August 2001
How the social democrats came to the aid of Pinochet
Augusto Pinochet: 503 Days Trapped in London
11 August 2001
Australia's refugee detention policy called into question
Borderline: Australia's treatment of refugees and asylum seekers
7 August 2001
Spinoza revisited
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity
1650-1750
5 July 2001
The
Reichstag Fire, 68 years on
27 June 2001
How IBM helped the Nazis
IBM and the Holocaust
30 April 2001
The
far-right Austrian Freedom Party under the magnifying glass:
25 April 2001
"Ulbricht's
helpers": the role of Hitler's army generals in former East
Germany
23 February 2001
De-Stalinisation and the German Democratic Republic
Die Architekten (The Architects), by Stefan Heym, Bertelsmann
Verlag, 2000
20 February 2001
Child victims of the industrial revolution
Orphans of History--The Forgotten Children of the First Fleet
by Robert Holden
15 February 2001
Le Carré's new novel questions his previous
Cold War certainties
John le Carré's The Constant Gardener
3 February 2001
The School Report: Why Britain's Schools are Failing -- a book by Nick Davies
14 September 2000
Actual Innocence --case
studies of DNA testing freeing the wrongfully convicted in the
US
4 August 2000
Justifying the role of imperialism in Africa
Aid to Africa: So Much to Do, So Little Done, by Carol
Lancaster
25 July 2000
A liberal brief for militarism and neo-colonialism
Virtual War--Kosovo and Beyond
1 July 2000
The post-modernist wonderland: Intellectual Impostures
by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
29 June 2000
An assessment of Peter Novick's The Holocaust in
American Life
10 June 2000
Critique
of Kosovo War urges European powers to unite against US
6 June 2000
An
account of American terrorism in Vietnam
29 May 2000
A man of honor--Balzac's Le Colonel Chabert
1 March 2000
Galileo's Daughter: An
important contribution to the history of science
8 February 2000
My century?
A review of Günter Grass' latest novel, Mein Jahrhundert
(My Century).
24 January 2000
Getting away with corporate murder
Blood in the Bank: Social and Legal Aspects of Death at Work
by Gary Slapper
19 January 2000
Strangeness and failure: Gish Jen's Who's Irish?
3 December 1999
The plausible and the implausible in Carolyn Chute's
Snow Man
20 November 1999
Book Review:
Auden's poetry and his last years
Later Auden by Edward Mendelson
27 October 1999
Right-wing journalist warns of Britain's collapse
into chaos
The Abolition of Britain--from Lady Chatterley to Tony Blair,
by Peter Hitchens
25 October 1999
Global warming and capitalism:
The Heat is On by Ross Gelbspan
9 September 1999
Slavery in the modern era
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy,
by Kevin Bales
8 September 1999
A critical look at Britain under New Labour
Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous,
by Nick Cohen
6 September 1999
Belgium's imperialist rape of Africa:
A review of King Leopold's Ghost
12 August 1999
A lament for the "good old days"
The autobiography of Canadian Auto Workers President Buzz Hargrove
5 August 1999
Book Review:
Mandela--The Authorised Biography
Biography falls short of penetrating myth surrounding ANC leader
31 July 1999
Book Review: Jackson's Track
A humane life
25 June 1999
A superb history of Australia's founding
A review of The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
13 January 1999
Betrayed: A review of Philip Roth's
I Married a Communist
3 November 1998
The serious artist and the Cold War:
A review of Don DeLillo''s Underworld
29 September 1998
New York City events introduce Aleksandr Voronsky's
Art as the Cognition of Life:Book signings and book fair feature
new Mehring Books title
19 September 1998
New
York City events to launch Art as the Cognition of Life by A.K.
Voronsky
19 September 1998
A.K. Voronsky's
Art as the Cognition of Life
Art as the discovery of truths, large and small
A Review by Adrian Falk
8 September 1998
Angela's Ashes, by Frank
McCourt, published by Harper Collins:
An Irish childhood remembered
22 May 1998
Book review: What bebop
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