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Rescued from the Footnotes of History: Lal Bihari Sharma’s “Holi Songs of Demerara”
A rare songbook from British Guiana explores the experience of colonial indenture.
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
Period Piece of the Present
Bruce Robbins on Raoul Peck's "The Young Karl Marx" and how it relates to the Global South.
Time and Freedom in Jason Barker’s “Marx Returns”
Nina Power on time and freedom in “Marx Returns” by Jason Barker.
“Young Marx” at the Bridge Theatre London: An Interview with the Writer Clive Coleman
Jason Barker speaks to Clive Coleman, co-writer with Richard Bean of “Young Marx,” a play about Marx and his family’s early years in London.
The Last Journey of Karl Marx
Jürgen Neffe on the last journey of Karl Marx, translated by Shelley Frisch.
Marx in Bizarro World
The dominant image of Marx that one is confronted with today is not simply distorted but inverted. Jason Read on Marx in Bizarro World.
I Am Not a Marxist
Ana Stankovic on the un-tragic wrongness of Marx’s thought.
Marx’s Dyslexia
“How should Marx be read today? Or, rather, which Marx do we need to read?” Agon Hamza on “Marx’s Dyslexia.”
Remaking the University: Geoffrey Galt Harpham on Democracy and Interpretation in the United States
What do Frederick Douglass and the New Criticism have in common?
Radical Optimization: On “Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement”
On Carl Cederström and André Spicer's "Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement" and the obsession with optimization in a neoliberal world.
Don Franzen Talks with Adam Winkler on the Corporate Civil Rights Movement
LARB Legal Affairs editor Don Franzen interviews Adam Winkler about his new book "We the Corporations."
The Daddy Dialectic
Dreams and their ilk (fantasy, literature, language) are a zone of unsurrender. Struggle’s companion and consolation. Consolations don’t have to be gentle.
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