Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch
what if we could all be geniuses… for a few months as we die of germ warfare???
Tag: politics
Common by Nikolai Duffy
contemporary intellectual mid-life crisis novel that focuses on the life of the head not the life of the heart
Fall of Civilizations [sic] by Paul Cooper
fourteen brief histories reminding us that everything always falls apart
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Edwin Jay Sparkes, author of What in the World?: Brief Observations of the Human Condition
Come and meet Edwin Jay Sparkes, author of What in the World?
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Sam Ayertey, author of Transformation of a Village
an interview with Sam Ayertey, author of Transformation of a Village
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Kris Hall/Barracuda Guarisco, writer of many books
a chat with Kris Hall/Barracuda Guarisco, writer of many books
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Marina Vantara, author of Mission Homo Liberatus: The Beginning
a chat with Marina Vantara, author of Mission Homo Liberatus: The Beginning
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Tim Whitehouse, author of The Tender Wall
a chat with Tim Whitehouse, author of The Tender Wall
Playing for Time by Arthur Miller
some life updates, some political commentary and a reflection on an unsubtle Arthur Miller play…
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Barbara Adair, author of In the Shadow of the Springs I Saw
a conversation with Barbara Adair, author of In the Shadow of the Springs I Saw
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
a dystopia from the nineties reads too much like social realism…
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
a serious novel that reminds us, again, of the cost of our silences
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
generations fought for a future that – this week – is being murdered on the world stage
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
it is human to cringe at the elevator pitch – a post-apocalyptic Shakespeare troupe (eww) – but don’t be put off, this is essentially a 2010s Infinite Jest (the good bits)
Abolish the Family by Sophie Lewis
accidentally, i am almost a revolutionary
A Small Town In Germany by John Le Carré
another treat from the english spywriter too boring to not die old
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
if the English state could clone the poor to harvest their organs, it would
This Wounded Island by J.W. Böhm
iiiiit’s good stuff but it’s a pretend book
Audition by Pip Adam
i think i liked this a lot, but possibly i maybe just agreed with it a lot?
‘a disgusting lie’ by Fran Lock
excellent serious poetry that escapes the drudge of the academy
Prisons We Choose To Live Inside by Doris Lessing
writing on the dangers of group mentalities, though pretty committed to one particular viewing of the world…
Talking At The Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell
a solid and non hagiographic literary biography
The Archbishop’s Ceiling by Arthur Miller
right up the Archbishop’s ceiling
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
we’re not in Earthsea any more…
The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger, edited by Rene Rojas, Bhaskar Sunkara and Jonah Walters
now that’s what i call henry kissenger
The Wind’s Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin
some of the best fiction you’re likely to find… plus some stories that aren’t
The Wind Blows Away Our Words by Doris Lessing
getting political with Doris in the eighties
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber
contemporary capitalist society is a dead end death cult – and baybe we all believe
Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
progressive(ish) proto-modernism from 1880s South Africa
In The Shadow of the Springs I Saw by Barbara Adair
excellent polyvocal south african indie press book about an art deco district
Reunion by Fred Uhlman
a tiny novella with a lot going on
In The End, It Was All About Love by Musa Okwongo
it’s good flaneur-type stuff so it’s a yes yes yes from me but it did make me think
James Baldwin: Living in Fire by Bill V. Mullen
an interesting – tho intentionally unemotive – biography of Big Jimmy B
notes on a radical pamphlet #5: the reproduction of daily life by Fredy Perlman
another entry in a series of writings on short political texts
These Bones Will Rise Again by Panashe Chigumadzi
notes on a political essay (slightly too big for a radical pamphlet)
A Small Personal Voice by Doris Lessing (ed. Paul Schlueter)
some beautiful, thematically varied, writings
notes on a radical pamphlet #3: From Animals To Anarchism by Kevin Watkinson & Donal O’Driscoll
notes on a radical pamphlet is an occasional series
Space Crone by Ursula K Le Guin
read a little guin
The Four Gated City by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #5)
another doris lessing quintet concludes
I, Nerd by Max Sydney Smith
another nice book review descends into dissociated left-wing raving
Only Americans Burn In Hell by 🙏 Jarett Kobek 🙏
if you’re not reading Kobek you’re not reading
ATTA by 🙏Jarett Kobek🙏
anti 9/11, anti Richmond, pro Jarett Kobek
Mothers Don’t by Katixa Agirre
If you do not feel or even believe in love, then how and why would you bring others into the nightmare that is existence?
the disappearance of Joseph Mengele by Olivier Guez
reading another novel about nazis, but this is not a romp
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
maybe walking blind into the desert is the bravest thing to do
The Angry Brigade by James Graham
eww i read some centrist art by mistake
The Angry Brigade by Alan Burns
unexpectedly, one of the best books i’ve ever read
The Government of No One by Ruth Kinna
anarchism is hope
POETRY MONTH: The Nancy Reagan Collection by Maxe Crandall
i read some poems on the backlot throat goat
POETRY MONTH: The Marketplace of Ideas by Stefan Mohamed
the Earth itself is a revolutionary anti-capitalist (funny poems)
Triumph Of The Now 