Book Reviews
The Spanish Civil War by Andy Durgan
Britain’s SWP lends credence to Stalinist line on Spanish Civil War—Part 1
By Ann Talbot, September 16, 2008
Andy Durgan, The Spanish Civil War (New York, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). The Spanish Civil War generates a massive body of historical work every year. This book stands out and merits attent...
Revelations of war crimes and moralizing idealism
By Charles Bogle, September 10, 2008
The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, by Ron Suskind. New York: Harper, 2008, 398 pp.
Casting about for the truth of 9/11: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man
By Sandy English, August 27, 2008
Falling Man by Don DeLillo, New York: Scribner, 2007, 246 pp.
The genealogy of torture
Torture and Democracy by Darius Rejali
By Shannon Jones, May 29, 2008
Torture and Democracy, Darius Rejali, Princeton University Press: 2007, 880 pp., $39.50
True to form, the Goodmans provide a fig leaf for the Democrats in Standing Up to the Madness
By Christie Schaefer, May 27, 2008
Amy Goodman and David Goodman, Hyperion, 2008 (Hardcover), $23.95
But who, after all, was Victor Serge?
By Andras Gyorgy, May 19, 2008
Unforgiving Years, by Victor Serge, translated by Richard Greeman, NYRB Classics, 2008, 368 pages (paperback)
A superficial analysis of global capitalism—Part 2
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein, Allen Lane: 2007
By Nick Beams, February 28, 2008
This is the conclusion of a two-part review of Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Part one was posted on February 27.
A superficial analysis of global capitalism—Part 1
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein, Allen Lane: 2007
By Nick Beams, February 27, 2008
This is the first of a two-part review of Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Part two will be posted on February 28.
75 years since the Nazi assumption of power
Hitler’s “intelligible response” to the contradictions of global capitalism
The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze
By Stefan Steinberg, February 8, 2008
Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, Allen Lane: 2006, 832 pages, now available in German translation
Trying too hard in the wrong places: Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By Sandy English, January 25, 2008
New York: Riverhead Books, 2007, 340 pp.
A lively and engaging walk through history for children
By Christie Schaefer, January 21, 2008
Stones and Bones by Char Matejovsky, illustrations by Robaire Ream, Polebridge Press, Hardback, $19.00
Edmund Wilson’s literary essays and reviews from 1920 to 1950: Just in time
By Andras Gyorgy, November 30, 2007
There is fortunate timing to the Library of America’s bringing out in two volumes Edmund Wilson’s Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s and Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930...
