Books
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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Book Review: ‘Dark Towers’ tells the sordid story of Trump’s epic trail of financial destruction
March 21, 2025The book details the scandalous relationship between the infamous Deutsche Bank and Donald Trump.
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Heinrich Mann’s ‘The Loyal Subject’: A sharp analysis of power and submission
March 6, 2025Heinrich Mann, the elder brother of Thomas Mann, and in his own right one of the most significant German writers of the 20th century, died in exile in California 75 years ago, on March 11, 1950.
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