Book Review
‘Never-Ending Youth’: Urariano Mota’s novel-memoir of resistance to Brazilian fascism
June 2, 2023Based on real people or composites of real people, Mota’s work offers snapshots of 1970s Brazil’s radical youth movement.
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East German author Katja Oskamp wins Dublin Literary Award with ‘Marzahn, Mon Amour’
June 1, 2023Oskamp writes with understanding and compassion, preserving and enacting the sense of solidarity and community that was a feature of GDR society.
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‘Novel’ and ‘news’ have the same root: ‘A Time Outside This Time’ reviewed
May 30, 2023This new book centers on a man writing a novel about the truth in the time of Trumpism. It unfolds through a journalistic prose style that conveys more fact than fiction.
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Sacrifices for capital: The millions who vanish into the abyss of mass incarceration
May 8, 2023New book shows how the disappearance of millions of people deemed obstacles to capital accumulation enables the intensification of exploitation.
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The upside of regicide: Revisiting England’s republican revolution as another Charles is crowned
May 5, 2023The new book gives an account of the ideological creativity that was sparked by the abolition of the monarchy in England.
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