The Indypendent
Books
A World Worth Fighting For: Marx Reconsidered
Scholar and activist Mike Davis is best known for City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, a…
The Merry Month of May: A Firsthand History of ’68 France
Where are the riots of yesteryear? This month marks the 50th anniversary of the wave of radical revolts and…
When Father Finds You on Grindr
A look at Uzodinma Iweala’s new novel about a gay teen’s coming-out nightmare.
A More Complex Portrait of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement
In A History More Beautiful and Terrible: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History, Brooklyn College political scientist…
In his poem, “What Work Is,” Philip Levine, the great poet of the American working class, wrote about time…
A standard version of the history of the Sixties and Seventies emphasizes the eclipse of class struggle by “new…
Ursula Le Guin: A Creator of Worlds
With her ability to conjure up whole new worlds that challenge how we see our own and to inhabit…
Review: ‘Alt-Right: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump’
By David Neiwert
Verso, 2017