Culture

‘Hippie Faggot Freak’: Memoir of a pathetic youth and emerging gay liberation

January 22, 2024 By Eric A. Gordon

Dale Mitchell’s lengthy account of his first 21 years is intermittently rewarding, but it is a slog demanding much patience.

A monument to Lenin: Sourcing a well-known poem by Bertolt Brecht

January 19, 2024 By Jenny Farrell

The story of how carpet weavers in Turkestan honored Lenin by helping themselves survive.

Remembering and reviewing pioneering gay literary editor Michael Denneny

January 18, 2024 By Eric A. Gordon

Sadly, this book review is also an obituary and a memoir.

Gerald Horne endows International Publishers research prize on Indigenous dispossession and Black oppression

January 18, 2024 By C.J. Atkins

$1,000 scholarship seeks the best new manuscript.

Mr. Bates goes to London: The Post Office scandal exposed on a TV series

January 17, 2024 By Dennis Broe

The series is terrific at spotlighting, not only a particular miscarriage of justice, but also a more systematic attack on both the collectivity of workers in the service industry and the almost gloating sneer at their...