book reviews
Portuguese fascist prison novel speaks to the incarceration experience everywhere
June 10, 2021There is one thing that unites all of those in prison: “Whoever they are, they’re gonna wanna get out.”
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Book highlights how early civil rights movement wedded Black liberation and anti-colonialism
May 27, 2021Few books capture the dynamism and energy of what is now called the long civil rights movement better than Lindsey R. Swindall’s 'The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World.'
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‘The Six-Pointed Star,’ novel by Manuel Tiago (Álvaro Cunhal) in adept English
May 26, 2021The second in a series of English translations of the novels of Portuguese anti-fascist fighter Alvaro Cunhal.
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Mike Gold, ‘Jews Without Money’ author, gets overdue recognition in new bio
May 18, 2021As biographers are wont to do, Patrick Chura exposes the reader to the days of his subject, offering not only facts and analysis, but the ability to see these through Gold’s eyes—to feel the sweat and...
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Author Dan Hicks reveals the backstory of ‘contested objects’ in Western museums
March 18, 2021The role of museums in Western culture has been a conversation in art and academia for decades.
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