Book Review
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.
Read moreNew book: U.S. ‘national security’ born from Anti-Asian racism and white supremacist ideology
December 19, 2023Menace to Empire shows how the racist foreign policy frameworks that drove U.S. operations and policies in the early twentieth century continue to shape today’s foreign and domestic conditions.
Read morePaul Lynch novel ‘Prophet Song’: A wake-up call for democracy
December 14, 2023Paul Lynch’s Cassandra call has touched a nerve among the middle classes. May it be a wakeup call.
Read moreBefore he was a Bolshevik: Claude McKay’s radicalization is subject of new book
November 22, 2023McKay spoke for a new generation of Black radicals, as distinguished historian Winston James shows.
Read moreA Soviet Jewish delegation to America experiences the John F. Kennedy assassination
November 20, 2023Leading the group was the Soviet Yiddish poet Aron Vergelis, who was editor of Sovetish Heymland (Soviet Homeland), the primary literary magazine in Yiddish in the USSR.
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