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Three important books on race in America for deep winter reading

January 10, 2022 By Len Yannielli

Let’s consider a trio of books that can be helpful in gaining a deeper understanding of racism, both its practice and its ideological components, including in the current period.

‘The Red Raven’: A quartet of crime fiction novels ends in AIDS-era L.A.

December 27, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon

The literary world has lost an important voice that spoke not just to the LGBTQ community but to any reader who loves a good crime story with a redemptive ending. Steve Johnson’s work survives him.

Manuel Tiago’s ‘Border Crossings’: People’s World interviews the translator

December 21, 2021 By C.J. Atkins

The latest volume in International Publishers' Manuel Tiago series, Border Crossings, has just been released. PW talks with Eric Gordon, the English translator.

Stefan Heym: A central witness to both fascism and socialism in Germany

December 17, 2021 By John Ellison

Fleeing the Nazis to become a best-selling author in the U.S., then forced by McCarthyism to settle in the GDR in the '50s, he would go on to open the reunified German parliament in 1994.

‘The 3rd Floor and Other Stories of the Portuguese Resistance’ in English

November 29, 2021 By Eric Vogt

This is a book to read and better still, to share with others.