Books
‘Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World’: A review essay
February 5, 2025It took me more than a month to get through this book. I sometimes felt I was picking my way through a mosquito- and snake-infested forest guided by an impetuous Amazon warrior who opened her breast...
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Hu Yamin’s new book on Chinese Marxist literary criticism
January 13, 2025Hu argues that Western Marxists have deviated from Marx’s focus on class struggle and revolutionary change.
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Sally Rooney’s ‘Intermezzo’ marks a fictional turn toward a private comfort zone
January 10, 2025In her latest, fourth novel, Intermezzo, Sally Rooney continues her exploration of intimate relationships, albeit with a shift away from the clear political critique that characterized her earlier works.
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The Dark Ages are here again
January 9, 2025The latest Harry Palmer L.A. mystery thriller, The Dark Ages, is about censorship and repression in Hollywood in 1951 and its echo in America and the West today.
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Mark Twain (1835-1910), anti-imperialist thinker for all time
January 8, 2025There’s still a goldmine of bounty left in Mark Twain’s collective work to educate, entertain, and embolden readers for untold centuries to come.
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