Culture

  • Letters from US soldiers

    Will They Ever Trust Us Again? Letters From the War ZoneBy Michael MoorePenguin Books, 2004218 pages, $24.95 REVIEW BY ALEX SALMON In his latest book, Will They Ever Trust Us Again, Michael Moore set out to continue the work of his most recent

  • Left-wing terrorism?

    "Bringing the war home" was the aim of hundreds of angry young people in New York, Berlin and other cities in 1970 who picked up the bomb and the gun in an ill-fated and ill-conceived attempt to end a gruesome war in Vietnam.

  • Permanent war for permanent peace

    Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the SithDirected by George LucasStarring Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen & Ewan McGregor REVIEW BY DAVE RILEY Just when you thought you'd had enough of the throbbing fluroescence of light sabres hovering

  • Adrian Moles' new diary

    REVIEW BY DAVE RILEY Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass DestructionBy Sue TownsendMichael Joseph/Penguin, 2004460pages, $35 Adrian Mole is no longer thirteen-and-three-quarters, but he still keeps his diary. Adrian Mole is in fact 34 years old,

  • Hating nationalism

    I Hate AustraliaAdam GeczyCanberra Contemporary Art SpaceUntil June 4<http://www.ccas.com.au&#062; REVIEW BY MICHAEL ASCROFT In I Hate Australia's exhibition essay, Geczy gives his justifications for delivering such a deliberately

  • Caricaturing the real character of our pollies

    Behind the LinesNational Museum of Australia, Canberra, until June 13Constitutional Centre of WA, Perth, July 1 to August 31Free admission REVIEW BY ANA HANSON Whether it be three embellished warmongering leaders pitched against an intense battle

  • Marx for middle-class radicals

    Why Read Marx Today?By Jonathan WolffOxford University Press, 2002136 pages, $26.95 (pb) REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER This book is intended to be both an introduction to the main lines of Marx's thought and also an answer to critics of Marx who question

  • Challenging our "democracy"

    The Wages of SpinWith David Williams, Stephen Klinder & Deborah PollardPerformance Space, Sydney, until June 5$25/$20/$15. Bookings (02) 9698 7235The Street Theatre, Canberra, July 20-30$29/$24. Bookings (02) 6247 1223. REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN &

  • Augustus Rumwaropen

    Augustus Rumwaropen, lead singer, lyricist and guitarist of pioneering West Papuan rock outfit the Black Brothers died of a heart attack in Canberra, aged 52. The internationally acclaimed Black Brothers were forced to live in exile from their native

  • An expose of capitalism's crimes

    The Edukators In German with English subtitlesStarring Daniel Bruhl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg, Burghart KlaussnerScreenplay by Katharina Held, Hans WeingartnerDirected by Hans Weingartner REVIEW BY SIBYLLE KACZOREK Set in today's Berlin, this

  • Getting behind the headlines

    All the Troubles: Terrorism, War and the World After 9/11By Simon AdamsFremantle Arts Centre Press 2004412 pages $24.95 REVIEW BY BARRY HEALY "Weapons and technology may help win wars, but it is only ideas that have the power to truly change the

  • Under-appreciated, undervalued and under-paid

    Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job MarketBy Elisabeth WynhausenPan Macmillan Australia, 2005246 pages, $30 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON When Elisabeth Wynhausen surprised her friends by taking nine months off from her job as a