"Ian Rankin once explained to an interviewer (the head of the Indian Communist Party!) that crime fiction is a way of talking about social inequality. Ron Jacobs applies that same maxim to the Sixties... in his wonderfully noir trilogy of those exhilarating and troubled times. And what Rankin does for Edinburgh, Jacobs amply illuminates for the Movement. Much much more than ripping yarns (though they are that too), from a master who's been there, done that, and lived to tell a tale or two."
Showing posts with label 1980s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1980s. Show all posts
Friday, February 16, 2018
Friday, January 13, 2017
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Friday, December 2, 2016
Selling Racism--A Lesson From South Africa
The movement against South African apartheid was perhaps the most universal and popular movement in the western world in the 1980s. Hundreds of thousands protested in a multitude of ways—from letter-writing campaigns to shantytown occupations of city squares and college campus greens.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/02/selling-racism-a-lesson-from-pretoria/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/02/selling-racism-a-lesson-from-pretoria/
Friday, February 12, 2016
Friday, December 11, 2015
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Friday, October 23, 2015
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Patti Smith and the Beauty of Memory
Labels:
1970s,
1980s,
Beats,
bohemians,
book review,
Counterpunch,
Jean Genet,
Patti Smith,
poetry,
Tangiers
Friday, October 2, 2015
Standing Naked: Bob Dylan and Jesus
Labels:
1960s,
1970s,
1980s,
anarchism,
antiwar,
Bob Dylan,
book review,
Christianity,
concerts,
counterculture,
John Brown,
music
Friday, January 10, 2014
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