Category: Book review
False Profits
Robert Ovetz critically engages Christian Parenti’s latest book Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder.
Just Imagine, My Dear, It Won’t Be Painless
Jeffery R. Webber writes about Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s recently translated Booker Prize-nominated novel The Adventures of China Iron.”
Extracting the Andes
Jeffery R. Webber reviews Martín Arboleda’s exceptionally ambitious Planetary Mine..
Global Fever
Gareth Dale reviews Andreas Malm’s forthcoming book on responses to the coronavirus and climate change. “Malm describes his project as Leninist—but which of the umpteen Lenins is his?”
Jordy Cummings’s Review of Comrade
Jodi Dean responds to Jordy Cummings’s review of her book, Comrade. Is it possible to think, write, and practice a communism that is not fully determined by the debates and divisions of the twentieth century?
Thoughts on Jodi Dean’s Comrade
Jordy Cummings reviews Jodi Dean’s Comrade. What politics underlies the concept of “comradeship”? Is it a term that levels the playing field, or is it imposed from the top down?