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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.

New book gives civil rights leader Alphaeus Hunton long overdue recognition

November 9, 2021 By C.J. Atkins

People's World interviews Tony Pecinovsky, author and editor of a new book on the largely unknown civil rights leader.

Liam O’Flaherty and the Irish Free State on its centennial

October 21, 2021 By Jenny Farrell

Liam O’Flaherty is one of the foremost Irish fiction writers of the 20th century. Like none other, he commented on the times as they were unfolding.

Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize

October 8, 2021 By David Keyton, Jill Lawless And Cara Anna

The Swedish Academy said the award was in recognition of Gurnah’s “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee.”