Book Review
Cory Doctorow’s The Internet Con: The long con of boring politics
January 12, 2024“This is a shovel-ready book. It explains, in nontechnical language, how to dismantle Big Tech’s control over our digital lives.”
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Dennis Broe’s ‘The House That Buff Built,’ latest in L.A. noir crime fiction
January 11, 2024The House That Buff Built by Dennis Broe is the fourth in a series of Harry Palmer mysteries set in Los Angeles in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Revisiting DuBois’ landmark book, ‘The World and Africa’
January 5, 2024First published in 1947, the book remains a touchstone for anyone who wants to understand the modern world.
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Communist Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteer Paul Wendorf’s letters published in Spain
January 2, 2024The letters of Paul Wendorf, a member of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, have been translated and published in Spain by Salamanca University Press as Vida y lucha de otro norteamericano en las trincheras de España.
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Review: ‘A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy’
December 21, 2023Thrall’s telling of Abed’s story enumerates and catalogues the poisonous indignities of life under apartheid.
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