Books
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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‘Cold War: A Love Story’: Novel takes us to 1960s-’70s revolutionary hotspots
December 19, 2024The author is especially effective in communicating the nature of his growing political commitment.
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Lear on the highway: Albert Maltz’s ‘The Journey of Simon McKeever’
December 18, 2024The scriptwriter, novelist, and blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten Albert Maltz was around 40 himself when he wrote his novel on aging, The Journey of Simon McKeever, first published in 1949.
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Han Kang’s fight against violence, revisionism, and alienation
December 6, 2024On Dec. 10, Han Kang, a writer deeply attuned to Korea’s history of violence and resistance, will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the second Korean and the first Asian woman to earn this honor.
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Fighting fascism in the USA: Lessons from history
October 22, 2024“Anti-communism, great power chauvinism, white supremacy, racism, and anti-Semitism” – the hallmarks of fascism’s divide-and-rule strategy.
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