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GORDON PARSONS recommends an entertaining account of the years between Germany’s defeat in WWI and Hitler’s seizure of power
Revealing words of Italian left icon
The letters Antonio Gramsci wrote before his imprisonment in the 1920s are a fascinating record of turbulent times, says John Foster
MIGUEL YOSHIDA explains the evolution and influence of the Cuban Casa De Las Americas in joining culture to the revolutionary struggle
ANDY HEDGECOCK is charmed by a skilful adaptation of Tove Jansson’s lyrical portrait of three generations of a family, overcoming grief
ALEX HALL treads warily through a messy, dialectical struggle fought in the mundane machinery of driving licences, criminal law, and birth registries
MICHAL BONCZA, FIONA O’CONNOR, JAMES WALSH and ANGUS REID review Atlas of Disappearance, Love Me Tender, Bouchra, and This Tempting Madness
Flitting between myth and the modern world, Medusa is determined to steer clear of human affairs. When her resolve crumbles, the result is petrifying in every sense
Antonio Gramsci: A Great & Terrible World — Pre-Prison Letters 1908-1926, by Derek Boothman (Lawrence and Wishart, £25)
In the 1970s, four decades after his death in a fascist prison in 1937, the Italian communist leader Antonio Gramsci became something of a polarising figure in the international communist movement.
Those who wished to promote a specifically “Western” road to socialism sought justification in the voluminous notebooks which Gramsci compiled, under heavy censorship, while in prison.
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