An Ex-Marine Sees Platoon
November 1, 2012
Leo Cawley (1944-1991) grew up in suburban south Florida and graduated from high school in Jacksonville in 1962, receiving one of two William Faulkner scholarships awarded that year by the… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Literature
Grandfather on the George Washington Bridge, Waterboarding, and Johnstown, Pennsylvania, FloodÑMay 31, 1889
October 1, 2012
Grandfather on the George Washington Bridge 1 From this height seedpodsfallen from naked cliffhanging treesspeckle the palisades.Water wrangles the shore,deliberates, decides, controls.From this height the Hudson’sfalse promisescurdle her edges, milk… READ MORE
What it means
September 1, 2012
Unemployed: soon invisible,�after a while, unemployable,�unwanted, with your future�eroding along with confidence,�sense of self, the family�cracking along old fault lines.�And what do you do? Age. � Out of work: out… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2012
June 1, 2012
� If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You… READ MORE
Credo of a Passionate Skeptic: Essay & Poems in Remembrance of Adrienne Rich
June 1, 2012
The following appeared in MR in June 2001. � Recently I collected a number of my prose writings for a forthcoming volume. Rereading them, it struck me that for some… READ MORE
A Red Robin?
May 1, 2012
Albert Ruben is is the author of The People’s Lawyer: The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Fight for Social Justice from Civil Rights to Guantanamo (Monthly Review Press, 2012)…. READ MORE
Revenge of the Surplus
January 1, 2012
Marc James Léger (leger.mj [at] gmail.com) is an artist, writer, and educator living in Montreal. He is editor of Culture and Contestation in the New Century and author of the… READ MORE
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Class Struggle
December 1, 2011
Mervyn Nicholson (mnicholson [at] tru.ca) is the author of Male Envy: The Logic of Malice in Literature and Culture and of 13 Ways of Looking at Images: Studies in the… READ MORE
Hans Fallada’s Anti-Fascist Fiction
December 1, 2011
Jonah Raskin is the author of The Mythology of Imperialism: A Revolutionary Critique of British Literature and Society in the Modern Age (Monthly Review Press) and a professor at Sonoma… READ MORE
Robinson Crusoe and the Secret of Primitive Accumulation
September 1, 2011
Stephen Hymer was a professor of economics at the New School for Social Research until his death in 1974. This article is being reprinted as it appeared in the September… READ MORE