Joseph Matthews

By Peter Linebaugh Counterpunch December 16th, 2022 One evening in May of last year I was walking with some friends…

By John L. Murphy Spectrum Culture Where today boutique hotels and burgeoning lofts rise, a modest intersection less than five…

by Meg Nola Foreword Jan/Feb 2022 Joseph Matthews’s clamorous, complex novel The Blast is set in San Francisco in 1916.…

About the book: San Francisco, 1916. The streets roiling: pitched battles between radical workers and the henchmen of industrial barons,…

John L Williams’ new book on the pan-African thinker is a marvel that offers a close, meticulous description of his…

by Robert Knox Fifth Estate # 411, Spring, 2022 a review ofThe Blast by Joseph Matthews. PM Press, 2022 The…

An excerpt from a new novel about the radical Left in 1916 San Francisco Public Seminar Excerpted from The Blast.…

Labor organizing and espionage in Joseph Matthews’s new novel, The Blast Public Seminar It’s an old joke: Lock two anarchists…

The early 20th century had much in common with our time. It was an epoch of great extremes of wealth…

Joseph Matthews was formerly a criminal defense lawyer in San Francisco, engaging in the criminal/political cases of anti–Vietnam War activists and…