history
A Soviet Jewish delegation to America experiences the John F. Kennedy assassination
November 20, 2023Leading the group was the Soviet Yiddish poet Aron Vergelis, who was editor of Sovetish Heymland (Soviet Homeland), the primary literary magazine in Yiddish in the USSR.
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Jake Heggie’s Two Remain: An operatic double bill featuring Holocaust survivors
November 15, 2023“Arguably the world’s most popular 21st-century opera and art song composer."
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Meridel Le Sueur’s ‘Proletarian Literature and the Middle West’
November 14, 2023Here, published online for the first time, is Le Sueur’s speech to the 1935 American Writers Congress.
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‘Minor detail’: Israeli military atrocities exposed, in the form of a novel
November 13, 2023Palestinian author Adania Shibli’s novel Minor Details reproduces the ordinariness, the bland everyday routine of Israeli military occupation on every page.
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Tactical questions abound in new book, ‘A People’s History of Grand Rapids’
November 8, 2023The author has rescued lost voices in the history of this Michigan city, but do his anarchist leanings lead him astray?
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