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Elinor Jean, ‘The Innovation of Henryk Grossman’s Marxism,’ A Review of Rick Kuhn, Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism.
Rick Kuhn, Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism. (Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2007.) In many ways, the second half of the title says it all: the recovery of Marxism. Henryk Grossman (1881–1950) was a Marxist theorist and academic, who made an important contribution to the recognition and development of Marx’ economic theory. In [...]
Jena Woodhouse, ‘The Sapphic Mystique,’ A Review of Marguerite Johnson, Sappho.
Marguerite Johnson, Sappho. (Bristol Classical Press, 2007). Who exactly was Sappho? While sufficient data has yet to surface to provide a definitive answer to this question, Sappho, a lyric poet of Mytilene (Lesvos, which in Greek is spelt with ‘v’ not ‘b’) in the sixth century BCE, continues to exert an almost unprecedented fascination on [...]
Allan Gardiner, ‘Testing times are here to stay? Politics and literacy tests.'
Australian Education Union. AEU Submission to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Committee Inquiry into the Academic Standards of School Education. April 2007. www.aeufederal.org.au The Future of Schooling in Australia: A Report by the States and Territories, Federalist Paper 2. April 2007. Council for the Australian Federation steering committee report. www.dpc.vic.gov.au Australian Labor Party. [...]
Marie Porter, ‘Motherwork: Complex, Frequently Ambiguous and Beyond the Control of the Mother,’ A Review of Andrea O’Reilly, Toni Morrison and Motherhood.
A Review of Andrea O’Reilly, Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart (Albany: SUNY Press, 2004). Andrea O’Reilly is a well-known and influential scholar within the multidisciplinary area of maternal research. The work of Toni Morrison and her portrayal of motherhood, mothers, and mothering is the focus of this book, which is essential [...]
Fiona Hile, ‘Carsten Höller at the Tate Modern / Damien Hirst’s murderme collection at the Serpentine Gallery’
During the endless Summer months of the early 1980s, the Mount Druitt Water Works was the focus of my libidinous pre-teen fantasies. Conveniently located near my home in the ‘statistically interesting’ western suburbs of Sydney, its writhing concatenation of vertiginous waterslides, cascading waterfalls, and tranquil mermaid-harbouring rockpools made it easy to temporarily forget the dusty, [...]
Deborah Jordan, '‘Lovers and Political Movements’, A Review of Jeff Sparrow, Communism: A Love Story
Jeff Sparrow, Communism: A Love Story (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007). Jeff Sparrow’s Communism: A Love Story is an engaging intervention into historical and literary global debates about love and activism, and is a new development in Australian biography. Written with an enviable talent for dramatic narrative, Sparrow will find a new generation of readers [...]
Victoria Kuttainen, ‘Trauma and Transit/ions,’ Review of Gillian Whitlock. Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit.
Gillian Whitlock. Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007.) Trauma as a, or the hot-topic of the 1990s has been widely commented upon. In critical discussions of literature and cultural studies, its signatures of belatedness, fractured testimony, and repetition became doxas of a critical academic language primed to the [...]
Meredith Rose, 'Outside the Emerald City,' A Review of Rory McCarthy, If Nobody Told Us We Are Defeated'
Rory McCarthy, Nobody Told Us We Are Defeated: Stories from the New . London: Chatto and Windus, 2006. In a poignant scene, Rory McCarthy describes a visit he made to Osama bin Zayed primary school in Falluja. The word Falluja now carries the indictment of time and history, like Guernica or Dresden, the site and [...]
Leili Golafshani, ‘Iranian Exilic Memoir,’ A Review of Shirin Ebadi, Iran Awakening; Azar Nafisi, Reading ‘Lolita’ in Tehran; Azadeh Moaveni, Lipstick Jihad.