Dave Kellaway reviews Barbara Kingsolver’s latest novel, Demon Copperhead and reflects on her contribution to literary fiction. She is one of the best living writers of the socially engaged novel.
The story is full of very relatable pandemic moments: workers questioning whether it’s safe to go to work or whether they should stay home, streets suddenly emptied, N-95 masks. What makes this all so remarkable is that it was published in 2018...
Women working in the blue-collar “nontraditional” occupations, traditionally occupied by men, have been writing about their experiences, contributing to our knowledge of “the hidden history of affirmative action.” Here is such a story.
A long forgotten if seminal early Richard Wright novel is brought back to life by Library of America for a new generation of readers.
This new novel is a tale of union organizing, class struggle, and romance.
This new publication brings the work of this astonishing novelist, a satirist and humorist of biting insight, to new audiences.
Whitehead’s follow-up to his Pulitzer-winning Underground Railroad exhumes the unmarked graves of a hellish Florida reform school.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a leading figure of the mid-twentieth century culture of revolt, has just turned 100 years old. Reviewer Crepeau here discusses the poet and writer's newest novel.
When one of my favorite political and historical analysts, Bill Fletcher Jr., announced the publication of a mystery, I could
not wait to get my hands on the book.
Bill Fletcher Jr, The Man Who Fell from the Sky, Hardball Press, Brooklyn NY, 2018
John Steinbeck was one of the most prolific and, in my view, significant American novelists of the twentieth century. He was influenced by and synthesized his own politics and personal experience with the political culture and movements of the 1930s.
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