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Don Quixote is the best book out there on political theory, followed by Hamlet and Macbeth. There is no better way to understand the tragedy and the comedy of the Mexican political system than Hamlet, Macbeth and Don Quixote. They’re much better than any column of political analysis.

Subcomandante Marcos

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Radical Children’s Literature

25 May 2017 / 448

Julia Mickenberg discusses some recently published radical children’s literature. As Philip Nel and I suggested in “Radical Children’s Literature Now!“, the contemporary field of radical children’s literature... Continue reading

Julia Mickenberg

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End of Thrones

12 December 2016 / 407

Tony McKenna argues that the historical necessity embedded in the story and characters of Game of Thrones means that there is only one way it can end. Winter... Continue reading

Tony McKenna

Animal Farm: a powerfully written allegory but an untruthful, gender-blind analysis

11 October 2016 / 346

Following her appearance on the In Our Time radio programme discussing Orwell’s Animal Farm, Professor Mary Vincent reflects on its powerfully written but fundamentally untruthful and simplistic... Continue reading

Mary Vincent

Communism in the gunsights

11 October 2016 / 565

Graham Stevenson reviews the recent In Our Time radio programme about George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Melvyn Bragg’s discursive radio series, In Our Time, recently considered Orwell’s Animal... Continue reading

Graham Stevenson

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The child colonisers: fanfiction and young people’s reading power

31 August 2016 / 332

Dr. Lucy Pearson explores the radical potential of fanfiction for young readers and other marginalised groups, especially in a media environment which is still focused on the... Continue reading

Lucy Pearson

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Reactionaries and Revolutionaries: Classical Fairy Tales and Class

19 June 2016 / 535

Professor Anne Duggan explores the history of classical fairy tales and their double-sided relationship with class, whereby they both ‘evade and compensate for a dire social reality’,... Continue reading

Anne Duggan

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Yours for the Revolution: the life of Jack London

16 June 2016 / 326

John Green introduces the life of Jack London. There is a hullabaloo around the quincentenary this year of Shakespeare’s death, but Jack London’s centenary appears to have... Continue reading

John Green

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Radical reading and radical writing: remaking children’s literature

12 May 2016 / 422

Professor Kim Reynolds introduces radical children’s literature, and says the time has come when children can become radical writers as well as radical readers. Many people think of... Continue reading

Kim Reynolds

Short story: Snig

9 May 2016 / 333

Snig was always losing things. One day he lost his hat. The next day he lost his umbrella. When he put things down, he forgot where he... Continue reading

Andy Croft

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Keep Calm and Nostalgic

27 January 2016 / 385

Ross Bradshaw keeps calm while reviewing Owen Hatherley’s latest book of essays on nostalgia. This set of essays starts with the well-known image, in Gill Sans type,... Continue reading

Ross Bradshaw

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Don Quixote is the best book out there on political theory, followed by Hamlet and Macbeth. There is no better way to understand the tragedy and the comedy of the Mexican political system than Hamlet, Macbeth and Don Quixote. They’re much better than any column of political analysis.

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