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.