Culture

  • Sucking up to Blair

    Blair Unbound
    By Anthony Seldon (with Peter Snowdon & Daniel Collings)
    Simon & Schuster, 2008
    669 pages, Paperback $29.95

  • Watch the worms squirm

    The Howard Years
    Series producer Deborah Masters
    Interviewer/Narrator Fran Kelly
    ABC, Monday 8.30pm

  • On the box

    Fidel Castro — Looks at Castro's early life as the son of a wealthy landowner, a Jesuit student, and as a young rebel lawyer who led the Cuban people to revolution. SBS, Friday. November 28, 1.30pm. Lionel Rose — In 1968, a young Aboriginal

  • The woman who tried to save Lake Peddar

    Whatever happened to Brenda Hean?
    Directed by Scott Millwood
    Written by Scott Millwood & Mira Robertson
    Distributed by Gill Scrine & Little Films Whatever happened to Brenda Hean?
    By Scott Millwood
    Allen & Unwin, 2008
    256 pages, $26.95 (pb)

  • On the box

    Summer of Love - Looks at the hippy district of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury during the summer of 1967, which had utopian beginnings born of idealistic youths who'd grown up with post-WWII affluence but were now dealing with Vietnam, racism, and

  • Still sings loudly

    Gone for a Song: A Death in Custody on Palm Island
    By Jeff Waters
    ABC Books, 2008
    246pages, $24.95

  • On the box

    NAISDA Dreaming — Follows a group of young Indigenous dance students as their classroom is moved from urban studios to the bush and red earth of a remote homeland in northeast Arnhem Land. ABC, Sunday, November 16, 1.30pm. Haditha: The Rules of

  • Home of the slave, land of the sleaze

    My name is truth; but you may know me as justice, honour or even common sense. @poetry = I don't know your individual names — there are just too many of you to remember. @poetry = You didn't listen when I told you they had decimated the