by Dave SewellSocialist Worker Debut novelist JJ Amaworo Wilson’s magical realist fable celebrates the ingenuity, tenacity and resistance of slum-dwellers.…
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Damnificados in Le Monde
by Gladys MarivatLe MondeJanuary 2019 “Extraordinary … Damnificados disorients the reader by invoking biblical, mythological, epic and real-life tales in…
Shakespeare in the Age of the Tyrant
By JJ Amaworo Wilson Stephen Greenblatt’s new book, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power, is a timely tome. As Greenblatt well knows,…
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o: “The Scars of History Are on Every Writer”
By JJ Amaworo Wilson The great Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong’o is known for at least four things: writing a…
The Other 9/11: Chile in the Time of Pinochet
By JJ Amaworo Wilson A few days ago, my 10-year-old son asked me why I’d scheduled an event on 9/11.…
The Instinct for Cooperation: A Graphic Novel Conversation with Noam Chomsky and Jeffrey Wilson
By JJ Amaworo Wilson How about this for a hybrid: take an 80-something professor, sit him down for a conversation,…
“The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse,” ed. Marjorie Cohn
By JJ Amaworo Wilson “Experience, we are told, is a great teacher. If this is so, then my classroom was…
JJ Amaworo Wilson Speaking at the Southwest Writers on A Day with the Damned
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Jim Nisbet on Agony Column Podcast
By Rick KleffelAgony Column A discussion between Graham Hancock and Jim Nisbet. “As I expected, these two writers did have…
A Moment of Doubt, One of 2010’s Best
By Graham BowlinThe Pulp Primer A re-issue this may be*, but outdated it’s not. Nisbet’s mystery writing protagonist’s paranoia, perversion,…