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Publishing Poetry Today and Tomorrow: What Are You, In Love With Your Problems?

Last April, Small Press Distribution (SPD) collapsed. Without a distributor, hundreds of literary and leftist publishers scrambled to fulfill orders and reclaim their inventory. Many folded, while authors and editors mourned the loss of an industry darling. Oleander Sārameyas the Younger questions those eulogies, asking us to reconsider SPD as a failure of imagination and solidarity.

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Hank Kennedy reviews cartoonist Eric Orner's biography of US politician Barney Frank.

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In Review: Jeff Schuhrke’s 'Blue Collar Empire'

Henry De Groot reviews Jeff Schuhrke's new book 'Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade' and argues that, although Schuhrke has produced a solid introduction to the topic, the work is missing key context.

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Examining Cuba's Knowledge Economy: A Review of Lage's "The Knowledge Economy and Socialism"

In a review of Cuban scientist Agustín Lage Dávila's new book 'The Knowledge Economy and Socialism,' Renato Flores reflects on the role of science and knowledge production under capitalism and socialism, asking how knowledge workers can be incentivized differently under socialism.

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Letter: Chronicle of Genocide Foretold

April 22, 2025

“It’s no mystery who killed Santiago Nasar nor the motives behind the tragic murder. Instead, the narrator of Gabriel García Márquez’s 1981 novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold …”

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Letter: DSA Doesn’t Need Empty Rhetoric

April 11, 2025

“Genevieve R of SMC has recently put out a regrettably lazy essay on the topic of political independence.[f77be5] I say lazy not because it is deprived of rhetorical …”

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Letter: The Bell Tolls For Thee

April 10, 2025

“It is common to discuss fascism as if it were a set of policies or political characteristics, or a case of ‘the chicken coming home to roost.’ This …”

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