Books
‘Caste’: From billionaires to ‘untouchables’—a way to understand oppression
June 8, 2021Wilkerson is a skilled storyteller and her book's stories of racist oppression should leave those in the dominant caste hanging their heads in shame. But it's missing something: the class struggle.
Read moreHilton Obenzinger’s ‘Witness 2017-2020’: Witness for the prosecution
June 2, 2021'Witness 2017-2020' is a powerful work from the heart and mind, a chronicle of the Trump and Plague Years.
Read moreRichard Wright’s new novel ‘The Man Who Lived Underground’ surfaces
May 14, 2021The editors and manuscript readers at Harper found "The Man Who Lived Underground" unsettling; one of them described the novel’s first fifty pages, in which three white policemen torture an innocent black man, as “unbearable.”
Read more‘Workers of the Empire, Unite!’ New book on challenges to British imperialism
May 13, 2021A new essay collection on how the global workers’ movement challenged the might of the British empire.
Read moreNew book on the many faces of crime writer Raymond Chandler
May 7, 2021A new book by Ken Fuller, Raymond Chandler: The Man Behind the Mask, in its strongest moments concentrates on Chandler’s implied politics in his noir novels.
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