Books
Darkest L.A.: Film Noir, Greed, and Corporate Graft in LaLa Land
April 16, 2025Five novels, five industries: New course examines how the postwar period set the tone for L.A.’s current reality of a vast income disparity, a crisis in housing, and frequent “natural,” though totally avoidable, disasters.
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Frostburg University celebrates labor organizer George A. Meyers
April 14, 2025The event celebrated the school’s creation of the George A. Meyers Collection in its library, Meyers’s life, and the need to defend education and libraries in the face of suppression.
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The crime novel 2025: Expanding and contracting at the same time
April 11, 2025LYON, France — As times grow more dire, with a major recession looming, war and perhaps nuclear war always on the horizon, and the latest climate catastrophe filling each day’s headlines, audiences are turning to the...
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Book review: ‘Love is Solidarity in Action: Poems from the Frontlines of the Class Struggle’
April 10, 2025The latest book from International Publishers uses poetry to express the triumphs and struggles of the working class.
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Moyshe Kulbak’s ‘The Zelmenyaners’: A Yiddish novel about the early Revolutionary Soviet years
March 31, 2025Moyshe Kulbak’s The Zelmenyaners first appeared in English translation in 2013, but it escaped my attention. It has now appeared in a new edition from White Goat Press, an imprint of the Yiddish Book Center in...
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