Book Review
‘Novel’ and ‘news’ have the same root: ‘A Time Outside This Time’ reviewed
May 30, 2023This new book centers on a man writing a novel about the truth in the time of Trumpism. It unfolds through a journalistic prose style that conveys more fact than fiction.
Read moreSacrifices for capital: The millions who vanish into the abyss of mass incarceration
May 8, 2023New book shows how the disappearance of millions of people deemed obstacles to capital accumulation enables the intensification of exploitation.
Read moreThe upside of regicide: Revisiting England’s republican revolution as another Charles is crowned
May 5, 2023The new book gives an account of the ideological creativity that was sparked by the abolition of the monarchy in England.
Read more‘Audubon’s Rifle’: Predatory
May 4, 2023He’s known for painting birds, but he also cruelly killed them.
Read moreThe late East Germany, a new (distorted) history in review
April 12, 2023Katja Hoyer’s “Beyond the Wall” only underlines the mainstream Western narrative of the GDR as a totalitarian state with few, if any, redeeming features.
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