After World War I, soldiers returned to an Australia deeply divided by class, religion and social and political issues. Alex Salmon reviews a new book uncovering more of the hidden history of social upheaval.
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Chris Slee reviews Vannessa Hearman’s new book, The Good Sea: The Journey of the ‘Tasi Diak’ and the Politics of Refugee Protection in Australia, which tracks Australia’s treatment of refugees and the development of the solidarity movement with Timor-Leste.
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Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus introduces six new books on revolution, climate denial, invasive species, planetary history, ecocivilisation and the war makers.
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In Buried in Practice, author John C Wilson has preserved a record of truth for the Indigenous peoples of West Papua, writes John Seed.
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Green Left’s Bill Nevins spoke with Zayd Ayers Dohrn about the explosive themes in his new book, Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground.
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Cold War Kid: Resisting the Vietnam War is a lively and compelling account of a young man's journey from Sydney suburban larrikin to activist in the historic struggle against conscription and Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. Jim McIlroy reviews.
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Transgender Marxism is a series of short essays written by 15 trans activists and scholars. In a time of rising transphobia and fascism, it is an important work, in spite of its shortcomings, writes Rachel Evans.
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Author Mark Whitaker was the first African American editor of Newsweek. Malik Miah reviews his 2025 book, The Afterlife of Malcolm X, where he sets out to explore Malcolm’s legacy and impact in the decades since his assassination nearly 60 years ago.
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In Turbulence: Australian Foreign Policy in the Trump Era, Clinton Fernandes looks at the implications for Australia as United States President Donald Trump and his government upend the so-called “international rules-based order”. Darren Saffin reviews.
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Gisèle Pelicot was secretly drugged, sexually assaulted and raped by her husband Dominique and 50 other men over a 10-year period. Mary Merkenich reviews her story.
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Jamil Stone attended the launch of multidisciplinary writer Fiona McGregor’s latest book, The Trap, which is set on 1942 and based on historical events.
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Ben Radford reviews Oscar Olivera’s new book on the 1999–2000 Water Wars in Bolivia, which is remembered as an emblematic grassroots struggle that successfully defeated neoliberal attempts to privatise control of Cochabamba’s water.