Culture

  • All the wrong conclusions

    Stop-Loss
    Directed by Kimberly Peirce
    Written by Kimberly Peirce & Mark Richard
    With Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum & Abbie Cornish
    In cinemas August 18

  • Counting the cost of the Iraq war

    The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
    By Joseph Stiglitz & Linda Bilmes
    Allen Lane, 2008
    311 pages, $32.95 (pb)

  • Wharfies' hungry struggle remembered

    The Hungry Mile and Other Poems
    By Ernest Antony
    republished by the Maritime Union of Australia, 2008
    64 pages, $20 (pb)
    Available from the MUA, Level 2, 365 Sussex Street, Sydney 2000

  • Marx's London

    Marx in London: An Illustrated Guide
    By Asa Briggs & John Callow
    Published by Lawrence & Wishart, in association with the Marx Memorial Library
    Revised edition, 2008
    110 pages, £8.99

  • Haiti — a modern tragedy

    An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President
    By Randall Robinson
    Basic Civitas Books
    280 pages, US

  • Cultural legacy lives on in orchestra

    Widely regarded as the greatest living kora player, Toumani Diabete, from Mali, and his 10-piece band drawn from various West African nations — the Symmetric Orchestra — delivered a sublimely engaging two-hour performance on March 12 at the Sydney Opera House.

  • On the box

    Black Soldier Blues — Black GIs from the US during WWII were initially turned away from Australia due to the racist White Australia Policy. SBS, Friday, April 25, 12.55am. True Stories — Looks at an exhibition of Aboriginal art from the East