Jeff Sparrow on killing

Today’s The Australian Literary Review contains Delia Falconer’s respectful yet constructively critical review of Killing: Misadventures in Violence by Melbourne author Jeff Sparrow. I’ve read one of Sparrow’s so-called radical histories of our city, which I enjoyed, though probably there is some philosophical distance between us. One of my shelves of books, the one dedicated to works about and around genocide, contains a number of books similarly addressing the ‘why we kill’ question. Most of them are unread but something about Falconer’s review interests me greatly. Let me take a look at Sparrow’s chronicle of a journey to the dark side of humanity.