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In a newly translated biography, Maurizio Serra pierces the self-mythologizing of the acclaimed writer Curzio Malaparte, who ...
Plus “City of Fiction” by Yu Hua and “Hunter” by Shuang Xuetao.
Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in ...
In its 229 pages, the book revisits some of the worst communist regimes in Russia, China and elsewhere to argue that these movements follow a consistent pattern of instilling fear, ...
Unlike other Communist books of revelations, Out of the Night is remarkably well written. Its 841 pages are crowded with exact information, names and dates.
With books like “The Mother Knot” and “Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness,” she challenged liberal orthodoxies about feminism ...
Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao. He fell from grace but later returned ...
Hegseth’s ‘Big Brother’ book purge models the ... was tasked with investigating the libraries at U.S. cultural centers in Europe for the purpose of removing purported “communist” books ...
The Chinese Communist Party’s Ultimate Taboo Fang Fang’s newly translated novel uncovers the brutal, buried history of land reform in China. By Ian Johnson ...