Books
‘The Gadfly,’ an Irishwoman’s novel of revolutionaries: Remembering Ethel Voynich
July 24, 2020What was this book, so widely read by Republicans in Ireland and the Labour movement in Britain in its own day?
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Charles Dickens put ordinary people at the heart of the story
June 8, 2020Dickens never forgot how his father was imprisoned for debts and that the financial circumstances of his family forced him to leave school at the age of 12 and work a 10-hour day in a blackening...
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European classical music in the U.S. and its foreign policy impact
April 30, 2020Scholar Jonathan Rosenberg simply cannot escape the tight fetters he's placed on his own work, and his innate, naïve confidence in American superiority and exceptionalism.
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‘Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists’: British author exposes Great Money Trick of capitalism
April 22, 2020Working-class readers have widely embraced the novel as an important text about their experience, written from their own point of view.
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Gerald Horne’s new book ‘White Supremacy Confronted’ relates apartheid to Jim Crow
March 26, 2020The scale of "White Supremacy Confronted," though focused on the U.S. and South Africa, is global.
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