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Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, September 8, 2017 12:00 - 1 Comment
Books">Review | “Tumblr Liberalism” vs The Serious Authentic Left: On Angela Nagle’s Kill All Normies Books
If the left is to have the same degree of success in translating online cultures into political movements, then it needs to understand both the online world and its own history. Kill All Normies helps with neither of those things, and is unlikely to win support beyond those already convinced of its central, conservative, thesis, writes Josh Davies.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, August 16, 2017 13:31 - 0 Comments
Literature">Where Epics Fail: On the enduring power, and beauty, of aphorisms Literature
"It falls to the epigram to remind us of our higher selves and larger allegiances to one another". American-Egyptian poet and author Yahia Lababidi introduces an exclusive selection from 'Where Epics Fail', his forthcoming collection of aphorisms.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Monday, July 11, 2016 17:57 - 3 Comments
Books">Review | Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics Books
How was a committed socialist on the fringes of Westminster politics able to win one of the strongest leadership mandates in British political history? Tom Mills reviews Richard Seymour's new book, 'Corbyn: the strange rebirth of radical politics' and finds an astute analysis of the socio-political conditions which have given rise to Corbynism, its future prospects and the substantial obstacles it will inevitably face.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 8:27 - 0 Comments
Books">Review | ‘Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War’ Books
Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami's new book is a timely and searing account of Syria's recent history and the people who shaped it, argues Wassim Al-Adel.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, July 28, 2015 11:48 - 5 Comments
Books">Review | Settled Wanderers: The Poetry of a Landless People Books
Social Anthropologist Dr Alice Wilson reviews Settled Wanderers: the poetry of Western Sahara, by Sam Berkson and Mohamed Sulaiman, a recent volume of poems written from within or about the liberation movement from Western Sahara.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, March 27, 2015 0:00 - 3 Comments
Books">Review | Unmaking Merlin: Anarchist Tendencies in English Literature (Zero Books) Books
While recent years have seen a renewed interest in anarchistic thought and theory, it is refreshing and exciting to see a new volume bringing an explicitly anarchist lens to bear on English literature, argues Tom Malleson in his review of 'Unmaking Merlin: Anarchist Tendencies in English Literature' by Elliot Murphy.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, September 28, 2014 19:31 - 0 Comments
Books">Review | ‘Assata: An Autobiography’ by Assata Shakur Books
In the aftermath of events in Ferguson, Missouri, a newly released edition of a key text of the black liberation canon, 'Assata: An Autobiography', is a necessary reminder of how potently the echoes of the civil rights era remain with us today, argues Terence Elliott-Cooper.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, May 29, 2014 18:51 - 1 Comment
Books">Review | Capital In The Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty Books
Despite its heavily eurocentric outlook, Thomas Piketty's much heralded volume of the moment is an epic and groundbreaking study of national inequalities that deserves to be read by everyone, argues Rohail Ahmad.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, May 16, 2014 13:31 - 0 Comments
Books">Review | Until the Rulers Obey: Voices from Latin American Social Movements Books
'Until the Rulers Obey', a newly published volume edited by Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein, provides an invaluable panorama of Latin America in movement, and should be required reading for all scholars and activists with an interest in the birth of another world in the region, argues Puneet Dhaliwal.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, March 7, 2014 14:47 - 0 Comments
Podcast">Kiese Laymon on Language, Love and ‘Long Division’ Podcast
Author Kiese Laymon talks to Ceasefire's Hana Riaz and Rukayah Sarumi about his novel 'Long Divison' and using language as a tool of resistance and affirmation.
