THE MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY: A PRECIOUS UNIVERSAL RESOURCE
Paul Halas interviews Merian Jump, Director of the Marx Memorial Library
BOOK LAUNCH
EDITORIAL
RUMOURS OF THE DEATH OF EUROPE HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED
MEETING ALEX GORDON
Interview with Phil Hall and Paul Halas.
R E L I G I O N / P HI L O S O P H Y
THE GNOSTIC BLUEPRINT
Phil Hall
FOOD
I SMELL THEREFORE I AM
Arun Kapil
S C I E N C E F I C T I O N
GOODLY CREATURES
J. W. Wood
S C I E N C E S P E C U L A T I O N
3I ATLAS: ALONG COMES A BLACK SWAN
Phil Hall
F I L M
LONE WOLVERINE
Norman B. Schwartz
PALESTINE
THE SADEAN MORAL CALCULUS
Richard Steinhardt
THE BOOKSHOP
Amal Chatterjee
PERFORMANCE POETRY
DUMAH
Yogesh Patel
COMMENT
UNQUESTIONING SCIENTISTS & SERVILE INTELLECTUALS
Richard Steinhardt
ISABEL DEL RIO: FOUR POEMS
POETRY
LO SOCIAL ES HUMANO / THE SOCIAL IS HUMAN
Ulises Paniagua
ARS NOTORIA MAGAZINE
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Hope from Hiroshima?
Genbaku Dome, a Peace Memorial in Hiroshima Shinso Hamai. A-Bomb Mayor – Warnings and Hope From Hiroshima Published 2010 by Publication Committee for The English Version of the A-bomb Mayor, Elizabeth W. Baldwin [Translator] Review by Mark Stanley Frankel . Shinzo Hamai This book shows how a determined and upright public official can advance…
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3. MYOPIC AMBITION
The Group Theatre: Roman Bohnen, Luther Adler, Leif Erickson, Frances Farmer, Ruth Nelson, Sanford Meisner, Phoebe Brand, Eleanor Lynn, Irwin Shaw, Elia Kazan, Harold Clurman and Morris Carnovsky Elia Kazan—Rebel with a Cause by Norman B. Schwartz In 1898, the director Konstantin Stanislavski (1863-1838) convinced a Russian medical doctor and sometime story writer Anton…
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How to Spice up 2025
Spice King, Arun Kapil Cook with spice to improve your health, and discover a whole new bunch of flavours . by Arun Kapil, Food Editor of AN Editions . We’re at that point, that oh-so-familiar point when we know we should probably get ourselves kick-started into the new year, yet still hanker after the…
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THE POWER & THE GORY
Closeup of the Alamo Defenders, Gillphoto, Wikimedia Commons Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian by Phil Hall + ‘What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.’ Francis Galton, Eugenicist, Darwin’s cousin . In the…
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SOUTH KOREA AT THE CROSSROADS
President Yoon at his inauguration in 2022, official Flickr account of the Republic of Korea After Yoon Suk-Yeol, South Korea Faces Trouble at Home and Abroad by Yin Xuan Peng South Korea faces a series of thorny problems after President Yoon’s short-lived declaration of martial law. His illegal declaration angered and alarmed the general…
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DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGERS!
Fatima Hassouna, by Andrea Ebert. Public Domain, Fair Use With Updates. By Tina Bexson Journalists are under attack and press freedom is under siege in a way that has never happened before – from the record numbers of Palestinian journalists and media workers targeted and injured or killed by Israel in Gaza, to the…
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6. From Hut to Hostel
by Margaret Yip We arrived at the hostel early Monday morning in 1977. I think it was late August or September. We were met by Mr. Parker, the warden. He lived on the premises with his wife. We all gathered in his office, surrounded by black bin bags containing our belongings. He ran through…
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2. MARILYN MONROE ASCENDENT
Marilyn Monroe starring in The Asphalt Jungle with Sterling Hayden (1950) by Norman B. Schwartz Because she was so convincing as the quintessential blonde bimbo, many to this day conclude that Marilyn Monroe must have been one. She was not. Neither was she the latter-day saint, the innocent victim of an exploitive society as…
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Ulysses in the City
Fotografías de la Ciudad de México desde el aire, Gobierno de Mexico Mexico City is open beauty, the heart that rests on a lake by Ulises Paniagua This city, Mexico City, is a palimpsest. City upon city, city of cities. It has been woven from layers invisible to the passage of time (frames fade…
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POET-PORTRAITS
‘Meditation’ (2024) Copyright photograph by Sudeep Sen (inspired by photographs shot by poet Sudeep Sen in Bhutan, June 2024) . by JHILAM CHATTARAJ an ekphrastic poem . Far, in the plains, sun-sleeved daylight ushers a cool, cobalt evening— . an echo of a word-shepherd chanting hymns across hypnotic hills. . Montage of a…
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