CLAIRE DUNN Rewilding the Urban Soul. Reviewed by Tracy Sorensen
Part memoir, part urgent appeal, Claire Dunn’s new book explores how our urban lives can become more intimate with nature. For many of us, the world of lockdown...
Read MoreMICHAEL WARNER The Boys’ Club: Power, politics and the AFL. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck
Michael Warner doesn’t hold back in this examination of the scandals that have beset the AFL over the past two decades. In professional sport teams compete not...
Read MoreCAROLYN COLLINS Save Our Sons: Women, dissent and conscription during the Vietnam War; MEREDITH BURGMANN and NADIA WHEATLEY Radicals: Remembering the Sixties. Reviewed by Kathy Gollan
Save Our Sons and Radicals remind us that the anti-war protesters of the 1960s and 70s were many and varied, and so too were their campaigns. These two books canvass...
Read MoreEDMUND RICHARDSON Alexandria: The quest for the lost city. Reviewed by Ann Skea
Edmund Richardson recounts the hazardous life of ‘one of the greatest archaeologists of the age’. Nineteenth-century archaeologist James Lewis (alias Charles Masson),...
Read MoreLAURA BATES Men Who Hate Women. Reviewed by Justine Ettler
Laura Bates has produced a confronting examination of extreme misogyny in Men Who Hate Women. Best known for creating the Everyday Sexism Project, in Men Who Hate Women...
Read MoreRUTH BADER GINSBURG and AMANDA L. TYLER Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A life’s work fighting for a more perfect Union. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck
Ruth Bader Ginsberg was a trailblazer in the law in the US. This collection of speeches and key cases gives an insight into her work. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a justice...
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