Book Review
Before 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 more
A 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.
Read more
‘Minor detail’: Israeli military atrocities exposed, in the form of a novel
November 13, 2023Palestinian author Adania Shibli’s novel Minor Details reproduces the ordinariness, the bland everyday routine of Israeli military occupation on every page.
Read more
Tactical questions abound in new book, ‘A People’s History of Grand Rapids’
November 8, 2023The author has rescued lost voices in the history of this Michigan city, but do his anarchist leanings lead him astray?
Read more
New book surveys life of Seán O’Casey, great Irish playwright and lifelong communist
October 27, 2023While the study is an important one for O’Casey scholars to be aware of, it is refreshingly equally directed at readers beyond academia.
Read more