Book Review
New book on the many faces of crime writer Raymond Chandler
May 7, 2021A new book by Ken Fuller, Raymond Chandler: The Man Behind the Mask, in its strongest moments concentrates on Chandler’s implied politics in his noir novels.
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Two new entries in the catalogue of progressive children’s literature
April 22, 2021These are the kinds of helpful teaching and socialization aids that parents need if they want to raise woke kids.
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‘From the Plough to the Stars: Working People’s Prose from Contemporary Ireland’
March 9, 2021The collection reads almost like a tour guide, as the writers lead us through old working-class districts of Dublin and some of the new estates established to rid the cities of their slums.
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‘Faith in the Masses’: Communist Party history gives something to believe in
February 17, 2021This book of essays celebrating the CPUSA's 100 years is heartfelt, reverent at times, hyper-romantic at others, and decidedly not uncritical.
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‘Agent Sonya,’ a biography of intrepid antifa spy Ursula Kuczynski
February 16, 2021For a couple of decades in the 1930s and 1940s, she was among the USSR’s most important windows to the outside world.
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