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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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Dark Stories for Dark Times: The 2024 Crime Novel

9 April 2024 / 582

This year the Quais du Polar in Lyon, the largest European festival of crime novels and one of the largest in the world, in celebrating its 20th... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

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Maybe Monday

27 March 2024 / 403

Managers are mystics. Must be because they’re always telling the people who work for them about their fucking vision. Their fucking vision for the company,... Continue reading

Wayne Dean-Richards

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Fiction about fiction: ‘The Living and the Rest’, by José Eduardo Agualusa

27 March 2024 / 433

Since the Second World War, authors have regularly conceived of plots set around a cataclysmic event that cuts off people or places from the rest of the... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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Money & Blood

24 February 2024 / 330

Wayne Dean-Richards is a working-class writer, and middle-class agents and publishers just cannot relate to his stories. History, in England at least, shows that to be... Continue reading

Neil Campbell

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Putting the ‘Who Dun It?’ back at the centre of hard-boiled crime fiction

15 December 2023 / 381

In the Anglo world, things generally get lumped together, but in the Francophone world the two kinds of crime fiction are worlds apart. One branch of French... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Fiction

Prophet Song: A wake-up call for the middle classes?

13 December 2023 / 399

Oh, oh, people of the earthListen to the warning the seer he said“Beware the storm that gathers here”Listen to the wise man.– The Prophet’s Song, Queen, 1975... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Fiction

Their Blood-Soaked Liberty

9 December 2023 / 409

Socialist crime novels are perhaps not a genre that comes obviously to mind, either for those who read crime fiction or fans of the socialist novel. Yet... Continue reading

Phil Brett

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Class, gender and authority: the life and work of Dorothy Edwards

21 August 2023 / 403

Geoff Sawers introduces the life and work of Dorothy Edwards. Image above: Dorothy holding Dora Carrington’s cat, credit: King’s College, Cambridge, ref FCP/7/4/2/101 Born in 1902 or... Continue reading

Geoff Sawers

Fiction

Small Infinities

16 August 2023 / 378

Introduction By Fran Lock Small Infinities is an appropriate title for a book – and an author – so enamoured of outlandish juxtaposition, paradox, and contradiction. While... Continue reading

Paul Victor Tims

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Strumpet City, by James Plunkett

14 August 2023 / 371

The Dublin lockout of 1913 was one of the greatest industrial disputes in Irish history. The conflict between some 20,000 workers and 300 employers lasted from 26... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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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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