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Friday, October 23, 2026
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As a narrative, “Animalia” is about the four generations of a farming family in southwest France, from 1898 to 1981, but this is only the novel’s bare skin. Underneath it is a horrifying tour de force about the business of farming, killing and eating animals. Sean Sheehan Given […]
The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 caused a severe economic crisis on the Caribbean island that many thought would be impossible to overcome. But they did it. Aspects such as how they did it, how they lived and why are set out in a book that must be […]
This pandemic is bringing to light all the weaknesses of the current capitalist order. For that reason, it is more a wish than a realistic claim from those analysts who maintain that the current crisis is the circumstance that will open the doors to a new universal order. Nothing can be stated with certainty. It is possible that the pandemic will be overcome in time, or we could be on the verge of something worse with unprecedented consequences.
When you notice a crop of books all dealing with the same subject, then you know something is up with the zeitgeist. Steve Latham In recent years there were a flock of left-wing books addressing hope. Terry Eagleton, Slavoj Žižek, Srecko Horvat, and David Graeber, all essayed their […]
The deep-rooted appeal of the Jack Reacher novels is no big secret and, if you believe Amazon’s page about their author, Lee Child, every nine seconds another one of them is sold. Sean Sheehan Reacher embodies vengeance with a social conscience. In the early novels Reacher succeeds through […]
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