James Baldwin, the important left-wing, Black author and activist, was born one hundred years ago in Harlem, New York, on 2 August 1924. Baldwin’s stepfather David, a... Continue reading
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The current horror in Gaza is just the latest in a long line of such horrors. The present incursion is called Operation Swords of Iron. The metallurgical... Continue reading
He carries the suitcase like he means business. He carries it like he cares about it. He carries it like he cares about it too much. He... Continue reading
John Wight presents an extract from his new book, Gaza: This Bleeding Land, which tells the story of this prolonged tragedy through the eyes of two rival combatants.... Continue reading
Germany’s minister of state for culture, the senior Green politician Claudia Roth, one of the almost exclusively West German-born government officials, voiced her surprise at a recent... Continue reading
In his book, How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe, Thomas... Continue reading
This year the Quais du Polar in Lyon, the largest European festival of crime novels and one of the largest in the world, in celebrating its 20th... Continue reading
Managers are mystics. Must be because they’re always telling the people who work for them about their fucking vision. Their fucking vision for the company,... Continue reading
Since the Second World War, authors have regularly conceived of plots set around a cataclysmic event that cuts off people or places from the rest of the... Continue reading
Wayne Dean-Richards is a working-class writer, and middle-class agents and publishers just cannot relate to his stories. History, in England at least, shows that to be... Continue reading
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