Culture
‘Good People’: Some are better than you think, others a whole lot worse
December 14, 2021The “good people” of the title are those who subjectively earn that title by some combination of lineage, class, morals and behavior. But it’s a shape-shifting concept.
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Canadian Communist movement celebrated in new feature-length documentary
December 13, 2021A Century of Struggle: One Hundred Years of the Communist Party of Canada covers the panoramic history of the party—from its outlaw origins amid the ferment of the early labor movement to the urgent demands of the...
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Boxing, crime, and capitalism: Gerald Horne’s ‘The Bittersweet Science’ reviewed
December 8, 2021Incitement to murder for a thrill in general, and gambling returns in particular, transcends boxing per se, but emanates from a culture that views workers and oppressed people as things and treats force and violence as...
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Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel Laureate for Literature
December 7, 2021Wole Soyinka was the first Black African writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
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Sally Rooney: In search of the Marxist novel
December 6, 2021In Rooney’s work, the political manifests itself in the depiction of alienated relationships alongside explicit political statements.
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