May Day Books Blog

Andersonville Prison, Georgia, Nov. 25, 2013 Sitting in the midst of the cotton fields and piney woods of south Georgia is a g...

"The Wire,” 1st Season, created by David Simon, 2002 I’ve resisted watching this series because it seemed like an ordinary ‘realis...

"House of Cards – A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street,” by William D Cohan, 2009 It seems that every time a great ...

"12 Years a Slave,” film directed by Steve McQueen, 2013.  This European film has been reviewed as the ‘anti-Django’ – a straigh...

"Prudence Couldn’t Swim,” by James Kilgore, 2012 Some people think leftists can’t write.   Kilgore proves them wrong, but then he ...

Looks like a Marxist has just been elected mayor of New York.  At least according to the New York Post. de Blasio at one time consorted...

"The Way the Wind Blew – A History of the Weather Underground,” by Ron Jacobs, 1997 I was assigned to review this book.   How many ...

CLASSY! You either have it or you don’t.   Class that is.  ‘Classy’ actually means knowing what class or part of a class you are in, or we...