Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
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James Baldwin: Going to Meet the Man
26 Aug 2020For many, James Baldwin will be most recently familiar from the 2016 documentary by Raoul Peck, “I Am Not Your…
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Mottled Dawn – Stories and Sketches of the Partition of India
23 Jul 2020There are wars known, and wars unknown –except to those who lost loved ones, homes and futures. The two world…
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Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History
09 Jul 2020During a long quarantine such as we are now undergoing it’s a good time for stories, as the locked-up Florentines…
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Reading the Classics: Zora Neale Hurston
06 Jul 2020The fight over what are the “essential” books to read in the world-as-it-is-becoming, is at least several generations old. The…
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The Iron Heel – Jack London’s Oligarchic Rule
18 Jan 2020The name Jack London will ring up associations in most American readers from “To Build a Fire,” his enduringly…
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The Milkman — Civilians in a War Zone
08 Jan 2020In the summer of 1972 I spent a month, with my then dearest friend, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in…
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The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
19 Dec 2019One winter afternoon Comrade Tulayev, an important Party official, is shot dead. By the time The Case of Comrade…
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf
25 Oct 2019One of the most important scientists of the western tradition, and about whom we in America know little, is…
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Gustav Flaubert on Love and Revolution
10 Oct 2019Gustav Flaubert, known in the entire literate world as the author of Madame Bovary and not much beyond that,…
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The Use of Man — Aleksandar Tišma
20 Sep 2019Wars are waged and war novels are written. Seldom are they written about small, out-of-the-way places or non-heroic people, …
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
26 Aug 2019Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in A Silicon Valley Startup (2018) by John Carreyrou has justly received dozens upon…
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The Communist – A Novel from Italy
21 Aug 2019The number of readers for a novel titled The Communist, in the United States, with its long history of…
