Books
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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On his centennial, an estimation of James Baldwin’s enduring power and influence
August 2, 2024From his early encounter with communists and other progressive political activists, Baldwin knew that his experience was not limited to African Americans but was intrinsic to capitalism and imperialism.
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Albert Maltz’s anti-fascist masterpiece ‘The Cross and the Arrow’ gets timely reboot
July 30, 2024“One of the truly outstanding literary achievements of the war period,” a work that gave Maltz “new stature” as an artist.
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