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The Many Worlds of American Communism

Joel Wendland-Liu Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
This new study of the Communist Party USA, says, reviewer Wendland-Liu, "is at its best in its detailed treatment of political debates and the labor histories of the formative period and the popular front period."

Our Revels

Donna Pucciani
“And now we mourn the temperate days,” writes Chicago poet Donna Pucciani, as the news of weather is seldom good.

How Cities Can Transform Democracy

Charlotte Cator LSE Review of Books
This study of "of the political meaning of the city under global urbanisation," writes reviewer Cator, is particularly timely "in light of ongoing global housing struggles and a widespread surge in the cost of living."

In the Shopping Cart

Lena Beck Modern Farmer
A short guide to commonly diluted, adulterated and/or fraudulent foods.

Let Them Not Say

Jane Hirshfield Poem-a-Day
The poet Jane Hirshfield offers a grieved portrayal of contemporary impotence and apathy.

A Newly Translated Novel Captures the Tragedy of Greek Communism

Tadhg Larabee Jacobin
Written in 1972, during Greece’s military junta, leftist Marios Chakkas’s recently translated novel The Commune is a mournful testament from a world where the stakes of politics were communism or fascism, democracy or dictatorship.