Book Review
Sally Rooney’s ‘Intermezzo’ marks a fictional turn toward a private comfort zone
January 10, 2025In her latest, fourth novel, Intermezzo, Sally Rooney continues her exploration of intimate relationships, albeit with a shift away from the clear political critique that characterized her earlier works.
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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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New translation of ‘Franco’s Mass Graves’ unearths crimes of Spanish fascism
December 4, 2024What will the great-grandchildren of those who lived through the Spanish Civil War do, now that revisionist oblivion seems to be all the rage?
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The left out left comes out in Aaron Lecklider’s ‘Love’s Next Meeting’
November 22, 2024This book will certainly move many queer people on the left today and grant to them a new outlook on their position in the present-day left.
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