Books
Book review and response: ‘People Love Dead Jews’
January 4, 2023These essays touching on the overall theme—“reports,” with a more corroborated affidavit —were mostly published in other venues before coming together as a book of 12 fascinating, elegantly argued chapters.
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Manuel Tiago’s ‘Eulalia’s House’: A powerful reminder of fascism’s ever-present danger
November 10, 2022Álvaro Cunhal offers a gripping retelling of the war against fascism in Spain from the vantage point of Portuguese partisans fighting alongside the Spanish Republicans.
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‘Never-Ending Youth’: A poetic novel or an essayistic memoir?
October 17, 2022Never-Ending Youth is a 2017 novel by the Brazilian journalist Urariano Mota, active in the clandestine Communist Party of Brazil during the harshest period of the country’s military dictatorship from the late 1960s to the early...
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Baseball—and baseball books—are back!
May 24, 2022Now that what used to be called “Our National Pastime” is back, it’s time to look at several recently published books about the game.
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‘The Future We Need’: A new book by Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta
May 5, 2022With the union organizing wave sweeping the country, topics like class struggle and labor militancy are back on people's minds.
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