Enough books have been published about the D.J. Trump Crime Family to fill a studio apartment. Ace investigative reporters Wayne Barrett and David Cay Johnston have written extensively about The Donald’s formative sleazy/unseemly years in the big-money real estate rackets. New Yorker journalist Mark Singer wrote the most entertaining piss-take on the world’s most inarticulate narcissist. Various […]
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A basic intro to our new site and a few very important links to how you can protect the vote while staying home!
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The remarkable crime fiction writer Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008) had an impressive career encompassing short stories, a wide variety of stand-alone novels, and several sets of series books. His two most famous recurring protagonists, John Dortmunder and Parker, written under the pseudonym Richard Stark, appeared in several film adaptations; a few movies have also been
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Jason Stanley on How Fascism Works In an era of successful far-right movements consolidating power around the world, we need public intellectuals who can put the frightening politics of the present in historical context. Jason Stanley’s How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them does just that. Stanley, a professor of philosophy at Yale,
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In The Deep End: The Literary Scene in the Great Depression and Today (OR Books), journalist Jason Boog writes about the plight of writers in the United States since the stock market crash of 2008 and compares their challenges to those of poets, novelists, and journalists in the 1930s. When focusing on the mid-20th century, Boog, the
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No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements (City Lights) is an important addition to histories of 20th-century anti-racist movements in the United States. Authors Hilary Moore and James Tracy spent time with veterans of the organization of the book’s title and have come up with an overview that is both
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In their new books, two veteran journalists detail the U.S. role in the national—and global—rise and fortification of borders.
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Another interview with Dmitry on February 6, 2020 in which he discusses Soviet stamps, art, cab driving, and other topics.
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