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Guest post by Tad Tietze: Doomed to repetition? The Left and the social democratic inheritance

By Guest Poster on September 26, 2010

Originally published at Overland and reproduced with their kind permission. As he battled terminal illness in late 2009, acclaimed historian Tony Judt delivered a lecture at NYU that would become the basis for his final book. But rather than be [...]

Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, International, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged Book review, ideology, ill fares the land, social democracy, tony judt | 27 Responses

Peter Mandelson’s The Third Man

By Mark Bahnisch on September 21, 2010

Peter Mandelson‘s memoir, The Third Man, was timed for maximum impact, being released just after the British election this year. Mandelson’s musings were condemned as unhelpful by the full gamut of UK Labour figures (including Tony Blair, who was perhaps [...]

Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Foreign Elections, Politics | Tagged Book review, British politics, David Miliband, gordon brown, herbert morrison, neo-liberalism, New Labour, Peter Mandelson, the third man, Tony Blair, UK election 2010 | 11 Responses

Nicholas Stuart's Rudd's Way and the spectre of Kevin07

By Mark Bahnisch on July 23, 2010

There’s been extensive discussion of Nicholas Stuart’s new book, Rudd’s Way on Brian’s thread about the political demise of Kevin Rudd. I’ve been dipping into it and have written a post about it for the ABC’s Campaign Diary blog. I [...]

Posted in Culture, federal election 2010, History, Politics | Tagged Book review, Federal Election 2010, Kevin Rudd, Labor leadership, nicholas stuart, rudd's way | 23 Responses

Blanche D'Alpuget's Bob Hawke PM

By Mark Bahnisch on July 23, 2010

I’ve had a review of Blanche D’Alpuget’s new book, Hawke: The Prime Minister, published at The Drum. You can read it here.

Posted in Culture, History, Politics | Tagged biography, Blanche D'Alpuget, Bob Hawke, Bob Hawke: The Prime Minister, Book review, the drum | 5 Responses

On Paul Kelly and political history

By Mark Bahnisch on November 18, 2009

I referred in an earlier post to Paul Kelly’s style of commentary – a mix of oracular pronouncement and portentous ponderings about the primacy of narrative. I actually read his March of Patriots a while back, and planned to review [...]

Posted in Australiana, History, Howardia, Media, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Book review, Guy Rundle, History, Insiders, John Howard, march of history, narrative, Nationalism, Paul Keating, Paul Kelly, political history, reform, Sociology | 41 Responses

Guest post by patrickg: Distant Suns VIII

By Guest Poster on October 13, 2009

The latest installment in an occasional series on speculative fiction by guest poster patrickg: Distant Suns: Nuncupatory questions. Any other writer with Jack Vance’s bibliography (well over fifty novels), and his years of activity, would be a legend in the [...]

Posted in Books, Writers & Writing | Tagged Book review, fantasy, Jack Vance, Lyonesse, science fiction, sf, speculative fiction | 13 Responses

Ben Naparstek, The Monthly and the Julia Gillard "biography wars"

By Mark Bahnisch on October 3, 2009

A truly bizarre editorial decision from Ben Naparstek, who occupies the chair at The Monthly, has resulted in the publication of a review of Jacqueline Kent’s biography of Julia Gillard by Christine Wallace, who is writing a rival biography of [...]

Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Ethics, Media, Politics | Tagged Allen & Unwin, ben naparstek, Book review, Christine Wallace, Crikey, Ethics, Gerard Henderson, Jacqueline Kent, journalism ethics, Julia Gillard, Kim Carr, Lindsay Tanner, Michelle Grattan, Penguin, publishing, review, robert manne, Sally Warhaft, The Monthly | 106 Responses

Distant Suns VI: Broken Angels

By Mark Bahnisch on April 13, 2009

<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/morgan.jpg" align=left The latest entry in an occasional series on speculative fiction – Distant Suns. A little while ago, I was having a friendly disagreement on Facebook about the merits of Bruce Sterling‘s science fiction, touching on his expertise [...]

Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Imperialism, Politics, Sociology, Technology, War | Tagged Altered Carbon, Book review, Books, Writers & Writing, Broken Angels, Bruce Sterling, consciousness, corporatism, cultural studies, cyberpunk, genre fiction, identity, John Pilger, literary studies, Noam Chomsky, noir, personality, Politics, Pulp Fiction, review, Richard K. Morgan, Robert Heinlein, science fiction, Sociology, speculative fiction, subjectivity, Takeshi Kovacs, transhumanism, War, Writers & Writing | 13 Responses

Guest post by Patrickg: Distant Suns V

By Guest Poster on February 18, 2009

Distant Suns: Caveat Oriens Chen. To stand still. To gallop at full speed. Wan. A small mouth. Some say a large mouth. Ch’he. Devoid of intelligence, deficiency of wit, silly, idiotic. Also used for borrowing and returning books. Pee. A [...]

Posted in Books, Writers & Writing | Tagged Barry Hughart, Book review, Bridge of Bridges, Chinese mythology, fantasy, mythology, science fiction, speculative fiction | 29 Responses

Cyburbia: Book review

By Mark Bahnisch on February 12, 2009

<img src='http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/9781408701133.jpg' align=left There’s obviously a perception in the publishing and bookselling industries that James Harkin’s Cyburbia is going to sell well – as you can barely walk into a bookstore at the moment without falling over it. The subtitle [...]

Posted in Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, History, Media, Science, Sociology, Technology, The Web | Tagged Book review, Charlie Gere, cultural studies, Culture, cybernetics, Cyburbia, digital culture, facebook, History, information theory, internet, James Harkin, Mark Zuckerberg, Marshall McLuhan, N. Katherine Hayles, Norbert Weiner, social media, social network theory, social networking, Sociology, Technology, web | 6 Responses

Guest post by patrickg: Distant Suns IV

By Guest Poster on January 10, 2009

A while back, I wrote a series of posts on speculative fiction – Distant Suns. Commenter patrickg liked the posts and wanted to try his own hand at one. So I’m happy to host the first of his continuation of [...]

Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc | Tagged blogs, Book review, Books, Writers & Writing, cultural studies, fantasy, online games, popular culture, Robert E. Howard, speculative fiction, sword and sorcery, The Complete Chronicles of Conan, Writers & Writing, writing | 15 Responses

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