Northodox Press, 2025 By Jenny Farrell Literature often offers perspectives on history ignored by mainstream narratives. Crime writing, in particular, has long been used to explore working-class... Continue reading
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By Jenny Farrell Fun fact: Guinness, the quintessential Irish drink, exported around the world, originated in the working-class pubs of early eighteenth-century London. Known as porter, this... Continue reading
By Jenny Farrell In 1962, Dmitri Shostakovich composed his 13th Symphony, basing it on five poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko that provide its textual and thematic basis. In... Continue reading
By Jenny Farrell Born on July 20, 1925, in Fort-de-France, Martinique, Frantz Omar Fanon grew up in a society that was formally part of France but in... Continue reading
Review by Jenny Farrell When Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp became the first Kannada work – and the first short story collection – to win the 2025 International... Continue reading
A review by Jenny Farrell Michael Crummey’s The Adversary has won the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, a prestigious prize nominated by libraries and readers worldwide for the... Continue reading
The Panorama Museum, Frankenhausen Photo by Martin Zeise, CC BY-SA 3.0 Following initial uprisings in southern Germany, the German Peasants’ War quickly spread and reached Thuringia, where... Continue reading
GDR/East German banknote featuring Thomas Müntzer All but unknown in the Western narrative, the radical German theologian, preacher, and revolutionary Thomas Müntzer (c. 1489–1525) became one of... Continue reading
by Jenny Farrell 500 years ago, on the 15 May 1525, one of the final battles of the German Peasants’ War (1524–1525) broke out. The War was... Continue reading
by Jenny Farrell Heinrich Mann, the elder brother of Thomas Mann, and in his own right one of the most significant German writers of the 20th century,... Continue reading
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