ResoluteReader

The opening chapter of Peter Robb's history, cum-travelogue about Brazil, begins with the attempted murder of the author. This is some...

The arrival of Columbus in the Caribbean in 1492 was a fairly minor event for a very small number of people.  The famous sea-captain's...

When I started reading Stephen King's Dark Tower novels, I made a vow to only purchase them when I found them in second hand shops. Seem...

I was prompted to read The Unfree French after I had read another work on the same topic, Marianne in Chains by Robert Gildea. As a resu...

I suspect, that had the blogosphere existed with George MacDonald Fraser's penultimate Flashman novel appeared, it would have erupted ...

Karl Marx's ideas of alienation are often portrayed as being overly complex. Yet they are a rich and fascinating examination of the way ...

Having now read three of Neil Gaiman's excellent fantasy novels, I think I've discovered a pattern. It basically  goes like this. Le...

David Graeber has produced an important and stimulating book. It is a radical book that clearly has its roots in the anti-capitalist movemen...

There is always a danger when reading books about the rural past, of falling into the trap that there was a wonderful utopian life that ha...

Volume three of Stephen King's series, The Dark Tower, develops the story into a much more concrete and traditional form. I found the ...

Trying to understand the development of the earliest humans is an extremely difficult task. What evidence there is, is limited to a  few fos...

Having read Angus Calder's wonderful book on the experience of ordinary people in Britain during World War II, I began to wonder if t...

In the introduction to his own book on the German Revolution, the Marxist Chris Harman wrote that "Revolutions that are defeated are ...

If I was being brutally honest, I'd say that Ready Player One is a vehicle to deliver a particular kind of self-satisfaction to a geeks...

Kim Stanley Robinson's alternate world history is an incredibly well thought out imagining of how our world might of developed had Eur...

How should revolutionary socialists best relate to situations that are not revolutionary? How should those socialists organise, particularly...

Around 15,000 years tiny bands of people travelled across a narrow band of land between what is now the far eastern end of Russia and Alaska...