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There's an old joke on the left that says that no one today would remember the German philosopher Eugen Dühring if Friedrich Engels had ...

Science fiction and romance is a rare combination, so it is wonderful to find a novel that does the sub-genre so well. This is How You Lose ...

Reading Demon Copperhead was not an easy process for me. Barbara Kingsolver has taken, as her inspiration, Charles Dickens' novel David...

In the year to June 2023 Britain saw around 4.1 million strike days . Traditionally these days are described by the media and the government...

Today, Karl Kautsky is best known for his political demolition at the hands of Lenin. After Kautsky attacked the Russian Revolution and the ...

In 1949, the massive Hollywood star Jeanette Marchand landed at London airport. She got off the plane, the only passenger in first class for...

Somewhere on my shelves I have a copy of Steven Weinberg's book The First Three Minutes , a 1977 classic that looks at the origins of th...

This is not a cheerful book, but it is an important one. It deals with the close links between German big business and the Nazi regime, prim...

In preparation for a recent day trip (of a lifetime!) to Helgoland (Heligoland in English) I picked up Jan Rüger's book in order to get ...

Despite my left wing politics and love of science fiction and fantasy, I have neglected Octavia E. Butler for too long. So I am very glad th...

This short book is actually a collection of two essays by China Achebe, the author of the superb novel  Things Fall Apart   - the classic ex...

I have a personal connection with the Berlin Wall. My mother took part in protests when the East German government built it, and travelled t...

Reading Janina Ramirez's excellent Femina recently I was reminded that I had a copy of The Book of Margery Kempe on my shelves. Margery...

Growth, and its counterpart, degrowth, have become hot topics for activists and theoreticians concerned about capitalism's destruction o...

I expected Janina Ramirez's book Femina , subtitled "A new history of the Middle Ages, through the women written out of it" ju...

The Eight of Swords is the third of the Dr. Fell series of detective stories written by John Dickson Carr beginning in the 1930s. It begins...

This collection of essays stands out among the plethora of books to come out of the 450th anniversary of the German Peasant War in 1975. As ...