Category: Literature

A song honoring Refaar Alareer, a Palestinian writer and poet in Gaza, murdered by the Israeli military in 2023.

Samuel Friedman’s poem on a capitalist society that produces much moral rot.

Enzo Traverso analyzes Saidiya Hartman’s literary work.

A discussion of the work of the Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

A discussion of Victor Serge’s novels and how literature can enrich revolutionary socialist politics.

Luxemburg’s recognition of the paradoxical push and pull of creative literature speaks to contemporary debates in the context of both a resurgent far right and mass movements against systemic racism.

In Nora Bossong’s latest novel, Gramsci’s Fall, we meet forty-six-year-old Anton Stöver whose marriage is falling apart with extra-marital affairs coming to a close and a career in a German university at a dead end.