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Peter Steele reviews Terry Eagleton’s Sweet Violence: the Idea of the Tragic.
Has Michel Houellebecq earned the criticism that has come his way?
Reviews of Legacies of White Australia: Race, Culture and Nation; The Uniting Church in Australia: The first 25 years; Landscapes of Memory: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered and A girl, a smock and a simple plan
Andrew Hamilton critiques Robert Manne’s Quarterly Essay, Sending them Home: Refugees and the new politics of indifference.
Dorothy Horsfield investigates an initiative to help the survivors of torture
The organisational culture within Australia’s Department of Immigration appears to have little regard for human rights, but an ex-insider says it didn’t have to be that way