New Left Review Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Lapvona
Ottessa MoshfeghNew Left ReviewCaitlín Doherty (@caitdoherty) on the work of Ottessa Moshfegh. 'Thematically, Lapvona hardly exceeds the carnivals of bad taste in Moshfegh’s other works – why, then, does it feel so oversaturated with suffering?' https://t.co/0Zrzwy6NsX
Paperback, 2023
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Israel
Ilan PappéNew Left Review'The recent protest wave has highlighted Israel’s fundamental paradox: it cannot be both democratic and Jewish. It will either be a racist Jewish state, or a democratic one for all its citizens. There is no middle ground.' Ilan Pappé in Sidecar: https://t.co/bd76LbamcE
Paperback, 2018
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Socialism
John Stuart MillNew Left Review‘The relationship between socialism and liberalism is magnetic—sometimes pulling close, at others repelling.’ @zevin_a reviews @HRMcCabe’s John Stuart Mill, Socialist, in NLR 135. https://t.co/rIisUmS1TX https://t.co/eOr9s1FKmJ
Hardcover, 2020
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Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
George MonbiotNew Left Review'Changing diets can be understood in the context of historical food regimes. Diets have shifted several times, always in relation to changing patterns of classes and capital accumulation.' Harriet Friedmann engages with George Monbiot's 'Regenesis': https://t.co/gtXHU7KW85 https://t.co/Ag6AwpgBTo
Paperback, 2022
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Modernism, Empire, World Literature
Joe ClearyNew Left Review‘Cleary historicizes the moment when the world-literary system—transfigured in a series of convulsions—shifted from Europe to America.’ Patricia McManus on Joe Cleary’s ‘Modernism, Empire, World Literature’. https://t.co/gZ5RDVop2x https://t.co/d3Tra9gzuy
Hardcover, 2021
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Life
Greg ZemlanskyNew Left Review'Life imitates art; but if Zelensky made the transition from fiction to reality, Denmark's Løkke has done the opposite: modelling his persona and programme – and even his party’s brand colours – on a centrist fantasy-world.' @NicolaiVon in Sidecar: https://t.co/TBeOLjg0BY
Paperback, 2014
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Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age
Daisy HayNew Left Review‘The reformer’s ideal—a cool-headed, middle-class, monogamous and morally upright individual—emerged in reaction to both the hereditary aristocracy and a rising class of workers.’ Anahid Nersessian on Daisy Hay’s ‘Dinner with Joseph Johnson’: https://t.co/FOSFBGjJ69
Paperback, 2024
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Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of a Century
Jean-Luc GodardNew Left ReviewFredric Jameson writes on Jean-Luc Godard. ‘If cinema really is dying, then he died with it; or better still, it died with him.’ https://t.co/9pZDvpZHIf
Hardcover, 2000
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Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century
Helen ThompsonNew Left Review'Contra decline of the West scenarios, the us emerged strengthened from the 2008 crisis as a financial and energy power.' Susan Watkins on Helen Thompson's 'Disorder': https://t.co/tOFh5bJCeH https://t.co/GAxeXU0FDU
Paperback, 2023
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