Tag: Literature
aesthetics
On This Land We All Get Fed
Jacqui Germain reflects on the difficulties and tasks facing the leftist artist in a cultural space geared towards the political right.
Jacqui Germain
April 15, 2025
Culture
Tolkien’s Deplorable Cultus
Robert T. Tally Jr. reads Tolkien’s corpus with the tools of Marxist literary criticism, delivering a devastating blow to the fantasy writer’s rightist fans.
Robert T. Tally Jr.
August 20, 2024
Literary theory
Rosa Luxemburg and Postcolonial Criticism
Helen Scott argues that Rosa Luxemburg is a key figure in postcolonial literary criticism whose contributions to the field have tended to be overlooked.
Helen Scott
April 5, 2021
Capitalism
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.”
Jeffery R. Webber
March 15, 2021