Chris Slee reviews Benjamin Fong's book, Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, which examines the history of drug use and prohibition in the United States.
Culture
Andrew Chuter reviews Their Blood Got Mixed, a graphic memoir through the heart of a remarkable experiment in self-determination.
In their book, The Locked-up Country — a play on Donald Horne’s The Lucky Country — Tom Chodor and Sharar Hameiri meticulously chronicle how governments opted for seemingly unthinkable measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic. Fred Fuentes reviews.
Cricketer Usman Khawaja challenging the banning of wearing messages supporting Palestine is the latest example of athletes countering the idea that 'sports and politics don't mix'. Alex Salmon reports.
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents eight important new books for rebels and revolutionaries on your gift list
Director Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven) depicts the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in his 2023 film, Napoleon. Alex Salmon reviews.
Award-winning Arrente and Kalkadoon filmmaker, Rachel Perkins' 2022 series, The Australian Wars, documents Australia’s frontier wars, asking the audience to grapple with our past and how it might shape a shared future, writes Leo Earle.
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six important new books on climate, food, waste, Venezuela’s communes and basic income.
Mat Ward looks back at November's political news and the best new music that related to it.
Walkley Award-winning Australian-Jewish journalist Antony Loewenstein’s book, The Palestine Laboratory, is a brilliant piece of investigative work, bringing together mountains of research and interviews, which lays bare the relationship between Israel’s brutal oppression of Palestinians and its booming arms industry, writes Ben Radford.
The Waterloo Forever Variety Show brought together the creative energies of public housing tenants, their supporters and community, report Siobhan Patton and Rachel Evans.
- Previous page
- Page 7
- Next page