Review: Killer Company
By Matt Peacock, ABC Books, $35.00

Review: Goodbye to all that: The failure  of neoliberalism and the urgency of change
Edited by David McKnight and Robert Manne, Black Inc, $32.95

Review: What’s Wrong with Anzac? The Militarisation of Australian History
Edited byMarilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds, University of New South Wales Press, $29.95

Review: Border Crimes
By Michael Grewcock, The Federation Press, $49.95

Review: The Hurt Locker
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, In cinemas now

Review: The Idea of Communism
By Tariq Ali, University of Chicago Press, $22.95

Precious
Directed by Lee Daniels, In cinemas now

Review: Storms of my grandchildren
By James Hansen, Bloomsbury, $35

Conservative Indigenous leader Noel Pearson uses his new essay Radical Hope to argue for a neo-liberal agenda in Aboriginal education, argues Shannon Price

Review: Avatar
Directed by James Cameron, in cinemas now

Review: The bases of Empire
Edited by Catherine Lutz, Pluto Press $58

Unravelling Capitalism
By Joseph Choonara, Bookmarks, $20

Review: Zeitoun
By Dave Eggers, Penguin $32.95

Review: The Politics of Suffering
By Peter Sutton, Melbourne University Press, $34.95

Review: Capitalism: A love story
Directed by Michael Moore, In cinemas now

Review: The People’s Train
By Tom Keneally, Vintage Books, $32.95

Balibo
Directed by Robert Connolly, In cinemas now

Review: Framework of Flesh
By Humphrey McQueen, Ginninderra Press, $30

Review: The frock-coated communist By Tristram Hunt
Allen Lane $59.95

Review:Climate action By Mark Diesendorf
UNSW Press, $34.95

Review: Possession
By Bain Atwood, Melbourne University Press, $54.99

Review: Bruno
Directed by Larry Charles, in cinemas now

Review: Katyn,
Directed by Andrzej Wadja

Review: The Baader-Meinhof Complex Directed by Uli Edel
In selected cinemas now

Review: Samson and Delilah, Directed by Warwick Thornton
In selected cinemas now

Review: Wasteland
Illzilla, Out now through Shock

Review: The Reader
Directed by Stephen Daldry, In cinemas now

Review: The Combination
Directed by David Field, In cinemas now

Review: Quarterly Essay “Quarry Vision: coal, climate change and the end of the resource boom”
By Guy Pearse, Black Inc, $16.95

I was born in 1970 in small town New Zealand. I grew up in the 80s in country NSW. I was in a closet inside a closet. I came out in 1995 in Sydney. My family coped. Nearly all my friends stayed friends. I can be open at work. I owe a lot to the previous generations of sexuality and gender rights activists for making my life so easy.

We survived the Howard years, and now you want us to watch it on Monday night prime time!

Infamous Victory: Ben Chifley’s Battle For Coal
ABC1, November 6
Watch online at www.abc.net.au/tv/iview

Review: “Now or never”, Quarterly Essay 31
By Tim Flannery
Black Inc, $15.95

Review: The Land of Plenty
By Mark Davis
Melbourne University Publishing, $36.95

Review: The Henson Case
By David Marr
Text Publishing, $24.95

Review
Bookmarks, 2008, $30.00 from Solidarity

Review: The Racket

Review: Waltz With Bashir
Directed by Ari Folman, Limited cinema release

Review: The Wire

WHEN US presidential candidate Barack Obama was asked his favourite TV show and character, his answers were The Wire and Omar Little (more on him later).

Review: Australians At War: A Pictorial History
By A. K. MacDougall, The Five Mile Press, RRP $39.95, 2008 edition

Review: On Rage
By Germaine Greer, Melbourne University Press, $19.95

Directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, Now showing

By Christine Jackman, Melbourne University Press, $34.95

Directed by Chris Nolan

Review: A People’s History of the World
By Chris Harman, Palgrave Macmillan $39.95

AUSTRALIA’S ENERGY [R]evolution is a useful tool for the climate movement. Greenpeace researchers have drawn together the best science and technology to build a concrete and achievable vision of a viable transition to a low-emission society.

By Chloe Hooper, Hamish Hamilton, $32.95

CHLOE HOOPER, a novelist whose first book won international praise, recently released The Tall Man, a book on the Palm Island inquest into the death in police custody of Cameron Doomadgee.

Review: Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq
By Patrick Cockburn, Allen and Unwin $29.95

Review: A Military History of Australia
Jeffrey Grey, Cambridge University Press, RRP $39.95

Who is Australia’s fastest sprinter ever? At which Olympic Games did he win the silver medal? Why is he a hero for many US track athletes? Don’t know, don’t care? Well watch Salute and you will.

THE WIDESPREAD acclaim for The Australian journalist Paul Toohey’s Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention (Quarterly Essay 30, June 2008), demonstrates just how deeply racist attitudes to Aboriginal people are embedded in Australian politics and culture.

Review of Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders
Jason L. Riley, Penguin USA

Review of A Well Founded Fear
Directed by Bentley Dean and Anne Delaney

Review of Sex and the City, directed by Michael Patrick King
Coming to DVD

Underbelly

Iron Man

Dear Mr Rudd

In the Valley of ElahWritten and directed by Paul Haggis

IN LATE February Alex Gibney’s Taxi to the Dark Side won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America

Fear of a Brown Planet

Of all the articles, features, memoirs and books devoted to 1968, “The Fire Last Time: 1968 and After”, by Chris Harman, the editor of International Socialism journal, is still, by some distance, the best.

ONE HUNDRED years ago the United States was the biggest oil producer in the world. California alone accounted for 22 per cent of global output.