Book Reviews
Letters on Strange Fruit by Kenan Malik
May 11, 2010
The following letters were sent to the WSWS in response to Nancy Hanover’s review, “‘Strange Fruit’ by Kenan Malik: A polemic against racism and identity politics”
“Strange Fruit” by Kenan Malik: A polemic against racism and identity politics
By Nancy Hanover, May 8, 2010
Kenan Malik has situated himself in the crosshairs of the dispute over the nature of race, arguing from the standpoint of Enlightenment rationalism and scientific objectivity.
An American liberal looks at health care systems around the globe
By Fred Mazelis, March 29, 2010
The Healing of America, by longtime Washington Post journalist T.R. Reid, a proponent of health care reform, raises some important issues, despite the severe inadequacy of both its analysis and its pr...
The Lacuna, or what’s missing
By Sandy English, March 27, 2010
In The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver recounts the life of a fictional writer named Harrison Shepherd, mixing his story in with those of such historical figures as the Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and Die...
Successful launch of In Defence of Leon Trotsky at Sydney’s Gleebooks
By our correspondent, February 4, 2010
An appreciative audience of 150 filled the upstairs auditorium of Sydney’s Gleebooks bookstore last night to hear David North launch his In Defence of Leon Trotsky: A Reply to the Falsifications of ...
J.D. Salinger (1919-2010): An appreciation
By James Brookfield, February 2, 2010
American author J.D. Salinger, best known for his 1951 classic The Catcher in the Rye, died Wednesday, January 27. He was 91.
What does particle physics tell us about the nature of matter?
By Chris Talbot, January 20, 2010
Frank Wilczek’s book can be recommended as an attempt to explain to a lay person the implications of more than 50 years of particle physics. Wilczek is a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist.
Much further reading required: Trotsky: A Graphic Biography, by Rick Geary
By Kevin Martinez, January 13, 2010
In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the life and thought of Leon Trotsky, particularly among the youth. There must be objective reasons for this.
In praise of George Eliot’s Adam Bede on its 150th anniversary
Part 1
By David Walsh, December 30, 2009
This year marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, along with Marx’s A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. The publication of George Eli...
In The Service of Historical Falsification: A Review of Robert Service's Trotsky
By David North, November 11, 2009
Trotsky: A Biography by Professor Robert Service, has been brought out with considerable fanfare. The British publisher is Macmillan. In the United States, Service’s book has been published by the H...
The “Hegel renaissance” and other questions
A comment on The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
By Alexander Fangmann, November 5, 2009
Last year saw the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. The volumes of the Cambridge Companion series contain collections of essays by scholars working on ...
The “Hegel renaissance” and other questions: Part 2
A comment on The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
By Alexander Fangmann, November 4, 2009
Last year saw the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. The volumes of the Cambridge Companion series contain collections of essays by scholars working on ...
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