Leonardo DiCaprio as Dr. Randall Mindy in Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up. Still image courtesy Netflix. Don’t Look Up Adam McKay Netflix, 2021 “Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting…
The Queer Evangelist: A Socialist Clergy’s Radically Honest Tale Cheri DiNovo Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2021 Cheri DiNovo is a well-known figure among activists, including the queer community, progressive religious…
The great reviews continue to come in for Alpha Max! Naturally, it’s nice for a writer to get positive comments and reviews, but really what… The post Three more great…
I like to keep riding outside as long as I can. Road salt, snow and ice-covered roads are hard limits for me. But temperature is a moveable one. It’s quite…
I like to keep riding as long as I can. Road salt, snow and ice-covered roads are hard limits for me. But temperature is a moveable one. It’s quite easy…
Capitalism and the Death Drive Byung-Chul Han Polity, 2021 Capitalism and the Death Drive is a set of 19 essays and interviews published between 2012 and 2020 by South Korean-born…
So, once upon a time there was this incredible maniac. He invented stuff like The Isolator and was really into home brewing radio sets. Oh,… The post Amazing Stories loves…
Shift Change: Scenes from a Post-industrial Revolution Stephen Dale Between the Lines, 2021 How do you write a city? The lives, the languages, the million tangled paths. The strip malls,…
Launch day is always a nail-biting affair. So, in an attempt to keep a skein of control on this thing, I thought I’d list the… The post Launch day reviews…
Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. This may be a controversial choice to top a list of humorous science fiction books, but I have… The post Bad Chemicals &…
Dev Patel stars as Sir Gawain in David Lowery’s medieval fantasy film The Green Knight. Still image courtesy A24. The Green Knight David Lowery A24, 2021 As climate breakdown and…
Latin American Extractivism: Dependency, Resource Nationalism, and Resistance in Broad Perspective Edited by Steve Ellner Rowman & Littlefield, 2021 The stated goal of Steve Ellner’s edited volume titled Latin American…
Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left: Recasting Leftist Imagination Edited by Robert Latham, A. T. Kingsmith, Julian von Bargen and Niko Block Fernwood, 2020 It is a commonplace on the…
In his new, eminently readable work, researcher and postdoctoral fellow Max Ajl systematically dismantles ruling class and ostensibly progressive visions for a Green New Deal. A People’s Green New Deal…
The New Corporation: How “Good” Corporations Are Bad for Democracy Joel Bakan Allen Lane, 2020 Joel Bakan begins his latest book, The New Corporation, by noting that, in 2019, “…the…
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth The Red Nation Common Notions, 2021 The Red Deal, a new book by the Red Nation—an American grassroots organization dedicated to…
Take Back the Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age Nora Loreto Fernwood, 2020 In reading Take Back the Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age, it dawned on me…
The Communism of Love: An Inquiry Into the Poverty of Exchange Value Richard Gilman-Opalsky AK Press, 2020 “This book is about the communism of love. It is, in other words,…
For me, reading the American literary critic, Harold Bloom, is often like wading in molasses. Intellectual molasses, to be sure, but slow going nonetheless. His writing is thick with difficult…
Early rave reviews of Alpha Max
Wow, there are some early rave reviews of Alpha Max, which I just have to share! Reedsy Discovery Reedsy Discover has a wonderful and beautifully… The post Early rave reviews…