Jacobin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein reflects on his long life and career, including Berkeley in the 1960s, Walter Reuther and the early UAW, Walmart, Bill Clinton, and much more. https://t.co/o1GcDjQCcB

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Guillermo del Toro’s "Pinocchio" is handsome and well-crafted. But the film’s intertwining of traditional Catholicism, Fascism, and dysfunctional families with gooey sentimentality makes a stew of ingredients that don’t go well together. https://t.co/eahkmsgHic

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Mexican novelist Fernanda Melchor aims to understand the world out of which violence transpires: the airlessness of poverty, the frustrations of thwarted ambition, and the desire for power and freedom. https://t.co/5DDB6uutNl

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Dmitrii Furman’s “Imitation Democracy” rejects the standard Western idea that the transition from Yeltsin to Putin marked a shift in Russian politics. Instead, he argues that both have contributed to the development of an "imitation-democractic” system. https://t.co/QKZQRphcHJ

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Plato’s Republic rationalizes class as part of the natural order of things. Its enduring influence and success was surely linked to the death of Athenian democracy a mere 25 years after the death of Plato himself. https://t.co/WrLRiZlHXH

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Why socialists should read Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick.” https://t.co/mztlVuVxdJ

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British music critic Ian Penman’s new book, “Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors,” looks past the excess and bleakness of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films to highlight the ruthless political insight they offer. https://t.co/6ftpfAV64W

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Lorraine Hansberry is best known for her classic play A Raisin in the Sun. But she was also a committed radical who insisted that black workers must be at the heart of the struggle for liberation. https://t.co/Aw0Wesay1Q

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"The Big Con," a new book by Rosie Collington and Mariana Mazzucato, succeeds as an exposé of the consulting industry. Behind its research lies a bigger and more urgent warning to reshape social priorities in an age of crisis. https://t.co/eyUuSuughi

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Elif Batuman ponders the relationship between art and politics in her new novel, “Either/Or,” demonstrating that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. http://jacobinmag.com/2022/05/elif-batuman-either-or-book-review-idiot/