Book Review
‘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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‘One Dyke’s Theater’ a monument to decades of lesbian life and creativity
July 6, 2020The book is suffused with an evident sense of accomplishment across a decades-long career, while at the same time showing moments of self-doubt and -criticism.
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Hospital mystery ‘One Foot in the Grave’ a working-class response to pandemic
May 20, 2020What would a working-class cultural response to the pandemic look like?
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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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