Book Reviews
The “Hegel renaissance” and other questions
A comment on The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
By Alexander Fangmann, November 5, 2009
Last year saw the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. The volumes of the Cambridge Companion series contain collections of essays by scholars working on ...
The “Hegel renaissance” and other questions: Part 2
A comment on The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
By Alexander Fangmann, November 4, 2009
Last year saw the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. The volumes of the Cambridge Companion series contain collections of essays by scholars working on ...
The “Hegel renaissance” and other questions: Part 1
A comment on The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
By Alexander Fangmann, November 3, 2009
Last year saw the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. The volumes of the Cambridge Companion series contain collections of essays by scholars working on ...
What does reality require from fiction?
Aravind Adiga and Indian society
By Sandy English, September 29, 2009
Aravind Adiga’s new book of interrelated short stories, Between the Assassinations, exhibits many of the strengths of his Booker Prize-winning novel, The White Tiger, and fewer of its defects.
Defending historical truth
Stalin’s Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR, by Vadim Rogovin
By Andrea Peters, September 9, 2009
Vadim Rogovin’s Stalin’s Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR is a seminal study of the purges that wiped out the entire generation of Bolshevik leaders and socialist workers and in...
A Thousand Splendid Suns: The plight of Afghan women only partially depicted
By Harvey Thompson, August 8, 2009
Khaled Hosseini’s second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, like his first, The Kite Runner, is set against the background of Afghanistan’s recent history.
An interview with David N. Gibbs, author of First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
By Charles Bogle and Paul Mitchell, July 23, 2009
Earlier this month, the World Socialist Web Site posted a review of First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention by David N. Gibbs, Associate Professor of History and Political Science at the Universit...
A sharp exposé of US “humanitarian intervention” in the former Yugoslavia—but some false conclusions
By Charles Bogle and Paul Mitchell, July 13, 2009
Professor David N. Gibbs is to be commended for writing the first full-length academic exposé of the “widely accepted consensus” that the Western powers intervened reluctantly in the Yugoslav con...
Book review: The Unit
Dispensable people
By Marge Holland, June 30, 2009
As the first decade of the 21st century comes to a close, a good many artists and writers are attempting to gauge the impact on a human level of collapsing economies and the bankruptcy of hitherto acc...
Book review: Death in the Haymarket
The eight-hour-day movement and the birth of American labor
By James Brewer, May 19, 2009
Death in the Haymarket by James Green is an important contribution to the early history of the American labor movement.
Questions and answers on the Hollywood blacklists—Part 2
An interview with film historian Reynold Humphries
By David Walsh, March 12, 2009
Last month the WSWS posted a review of Hollywood’s Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History by Reynold Humphries. We subsequently conducted an interview with the author, which we are posting in ...
Questions and answers on the Hollywood blacklists—Part 1
An interview with film historian Reynold Humphries
By David Walsh, March 11, 2009
Last month the WSWS posted a review of Hollywood’s Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History by Reynold Humphries. We subsequently conducted an interview with the author, which we are posting in ...
