Monthly Archives: May 2026

2026

Also, for the Kazakhs in the novel, China looms as a more menacing and extremist alternative to Soviet power; that is the land of mind control. —Katerina Clark, Foreword to Chingiz Aitmatov, The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years, (Bloomington: … Continue reading →

Perestroika wasn’t created by the people, it was created by a single person: Gorbachev. Gorbachev and a handful of intellectuals . . . —Speaker in Svetlanta Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, (New York: Random House, 2017), 21.

Nancy Fraser, New Left Review: Here, I want to examine a different aspect of Israel’s genocidal onslaught on Gaza: its significance as a ‘world event’, an epochal turning point that also serves to reveal, and so to signify, the nature … Continue reading →