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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Karin Wieland - Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin & a century in two lives

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Marlene Dietrich was one of the great artists, actors and performers of the early twentieth century. Her life was shaped by the twists and t...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man

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Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man is considered one of the great works of post-war Science Fiction. First published in 1953 it is easy...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Eamon Duffy - A People's Tragedy: Studies in Reformation

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As one of the preeminent scholars of the English Reformation I have always found Eamon Duffy's work to be insightful and interesting. De...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

John Rose - Revolutions Thwarted: Poland, South Africa, Iran, Brazil and the legacies of Communism

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John Rose, who died recently, was a veteran socialist of the 1968 generation. I reviewed his excellent book The Myths of Zionism many years...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Mary Beard - Emperor of Rome

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Emperor of Rome is Mary Beard's latest book aimed at a popular audience about Ancient Rome. As with her others this is accessible, ente...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

Mike Davis - Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the imagination of disaster

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I started to read Ecology of Fear in the aftermath of the recent LA uprising . In part that was because one of the first great such urban r...
Friday, July 11, 2025

John Molyneux - What is the real Marxist Tradition?

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What is the real Marxist Tradition? is a remarkable short work that was written to fight for a clear understanding of Marxism in one of the...

Laura Elliott - Awakened

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Highly recommended by reviewers, I was attracted to Awakened despite my usual rejection of the horror genre. It's pretext sounded intri...
Monday, July 07, 2025

Herman Lehmann - Nine Years Among the Indians 1870-1879

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In May 1870, Herman Lehmann and his brother Willie, aged 11 and 8 respectively, were kidnapped by Apache Indians and taken from their family...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Douglas Newton - The Darkest Days: The truth behind Britain's rush to war, 1914

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Why did Britain go to war in 1914? There are some old lies that explain this: "poor little Belgium", German troops "murdering...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Olivier de Schutter - The Poverty of Growth

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There are a now a plethora of books and articles about degrowth from a left and liberal point of view that show how capitalism's insatia...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Andrew Bradstock - Faith in the Revolution: The political theologies of Müntzer and Winstanley

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This is a fascinating little book. Its author is a Christian radical whose purpose in exploring the ideas of the German radical Thomas Müntz...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Larry McMurtry - Comanche Moon

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In chronological order Commanche Moon is the second book in the series that Larry McMurtry wrote about the Texas Rangers Woodrow Call and Ag...
Saturday, June 07, 2025

Philip Marfleet - Palestine, Imperialism and the Struggle for Freedom

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As the genocide in Gaza continues, millions of people around the world are trying to understand the reason for Israel's continued assaul...
Friday, June 06, 2025

David Humphreys Miller - Custer's Fall: The Native American Side of the Story

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There have been plenty of accounts of the Battle of the Little Bighorn that range from general discussions of "General" Custer...
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Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae

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His Bloody Project tells the story of a horrific murder in 19th century rural Scotland . It purports to tell a true story based on found do...