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Paul Robeson

by Jordan Goodman
Timely and brilliant new portrait of the singer, campaigner and leading radical
A Colossal Wreck

by Alexander Cockburn
A road trip through the ruins of modern America from the most influential journalist of his generation
2 posts
An Impatient Life

by Daniel Bensaïd
The turbulent story of the radical Left in the eloquentwords of one of its foremost leaders
Victor Serge

by Susan Weissman
The first biography to give due weight to the commitment and optimism of this great political thinker

The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust

by Noam Chayut
Haunting, beautifully written and deeply moving memoir of a young Israeli soldier
Soldier Box

by Joe Glenton
A brave, moving account of a soldier who refused to return to Afghanistan
7 posts
Che Wants to See You

by Ciro Bustos
Riveting memoir of revolution in South America by Che Guevara’s Argentine lieutenant
Ryszard Kapuscinski

by Artur Domosławski
Controversial biography of the twentieth-century master of literary reportage
7 posts

Boy 30529

by Felix Weinberg
Searing, frank memoir of childhood in the German concentration camps
The Freud Scenario

by Jean-Paul Sartre

In 1958, the US director John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a scenario for a film about Sigmund Freud. Huston wanted Sartre to concentrate...
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by Mei Zhi
China's first literary dissident's Kafkaesque journey through the prisons of the Cultural Revolution.
1 post
Unhitched

by Richard Seymour
Blistering and timely interrogation of the politics and motives of an infamous ex-leftist.
2 posts

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Frantz Fanon

by David Macey
Comprehensive and eloquent account of Fanon’s personal, intellectual and political life.
4 posts
Beauty and the Inferno

by Roberto Saviano
Essays on art, politics and life from the best-selling author of Gomorrah.
1 post
My Grandmother

by Fethiye Cetin
A passionate memoir of the author’s discovery of her grandmother’s true identity.
The Eitingons

by Mary-Kay Wilmers
A family history that explores the KGB, the fur trade, Freud and the assassination of Trotsky.
2 posts

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