Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women And Welfare in the United StatesBy Mimi AbramovitzMonthly Review PressUS$15
The words, "Welfare is like a traffic accident. It can happen to anybody", were uttered by Johnnie Tilman, an
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Museworthy: The Law of Violent Hands a torture chamber in my handa history of attempts the hand with a proper namea form of private sovereignty a hand coldly silver or dryly woodhustler aligning the world with horror the hand writing
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World OrderBy Samuel P. HuntingtonTouchstone Books 1998367 pages $18.65 (pb) REVIEW BY EDWARD SAID Samuel Huntington's article "The Clash of Civilizations?" appeared in the Summer 1993 issue of
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REVIEW BY KOFI ANYIDOHO Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave TradeBy Manu Herbsteine-Reads450 pages, US$19.95To order visit <http://www.ama.africatoday.com/order_ama.htm> This is the story of Nandzi, renamed Ama, renamed Pamela, cruelly
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How does a working-class hero reconcile conservative ideas with a revolutionary reputation? After participating in a Melbourne press conference with Billy Bragg, I am convinced it is an amusing and confusing exercise in
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REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Howard Zinn on WarBy Howard ZinnSeven Stories Press, 2001206 pages, $34.95 (pb) With every militarist hothead in press and parliament lashing themselves into a frenzy over the war they have just started against Afghanistan,
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A ConversationBy David WilliamsonDirected by Sandra BatesEnsemble Theatre, SydneyUntil November 3 REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE The theme of violence against innocents, and the justice or impunity that follows, has never been more timely. The real
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reflection of the bridge in the train windowwhere it meets other things: most beautifulsad blue harbour in an afternoon light thatcan barely keep itself from darkness; sky-scrapers, hairs of the city standing on endwith all that electricity; ghosts
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REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary WollstonecraftBy Diane JacobsAbacus, 2001333 pages, $28 (pb) A "hyena in petticoats", wrote London literary eminence Horace Walpole in 1795 in a fit of misogynist pique against Mary
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According to a report in the September 15 Los Angeles Times, the politically charged rock band Rage Against the Machine had the bulletin board service on its official web site closed after fans made postings — including one reportedly threatening
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Museworthy: Burnt Things eyes widening into screens where animals-run-in-herds, someone shootingthe scene from a helicopter (one is always shot), the split-secondof a blink, and darkness becomes the sort of sleep analogous to death,all we can
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A History of BombingBy Sven LindqvistGranta Books, 2001224 pages $39.95 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON When the first bomb was dropped from the air on November 1, 1911, the pattern for the subsequent history of aerial bombing was set. A European