Patrick Chura
LATEST ARTICLES BY Patrick Chura
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Culture
Leftist ‘life hacks’ from Mike Gold’s farewell columns in ‘People’s Daily World’
February 1, 2023In the 1930s, he was a firebrand agitator writing in the pages of the Daily Worker. By the era of the ‘New Left,’ Mike Gold was at it again on the West Coast.
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‘Joe Hill, Alive as You and Me’ unites and inspires in Akron
November 16, 2022Now is a good time to talk and learn about Joe Hill, as we did on a November evening in Akron.
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Culture
Darko Suvin’s fiery poetry and ‘Insubordinate Essays’
June 30, 2022In 2016, at the age of 86, Darko Suvin did something that would have taxed the energies of someone half his age.
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‘Border Crossings’: Thirteen stories about covert journeys in service to Portuguese freedom
February 4, 2022
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Culture
Anti-fascist lessons from a blacklisted Jewish Communist
January 6, 2022With hate crimes on the rise and democracy in crisis, the literature we study in schools has new purpose.
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‘America on Fire’: A timely look at police violence and Black rebellion
July 8, 2021Violence will not end, the author asserts, until the nation stops expecting police to manage conditions that are beyond their control.
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Richard Wright’s new novel ‘The Man Who Lived Underground’ surfaces
May 14, 2021The editors and manuscript readers at Harper found "The Man Who Lived Underground" unsettling; one of them described the novel’s first fifty pages, in which three white policemen torture an innocent black man, as “unbearable.”
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