May Day Books Blog

  New Book Announcement: "FACTORY DAYS  - Class war takes many forms, and this is one of them" by C.G. Gibbs, 2016 This stor...

“Up From Liberalism,” Jacobin Magazine, Issue 20, Winter 2016 Continuing with the theme of the Democratic Party (“DP”) and its identity...

‘Kolyma Tales,’ by Varlam Shalamov, (1994, English edition) with added stories – ‘Graphite.’ During the Stalin period in the USSR, Shal...

Minneapolis Institute of Art (‘MIA’) – ‘State of the Art – Discovering American Art Now’ Ever wondered what the art world is doing or...

“Son of Saul,” film directed by Laszlo Jeles Nemes, 2015 This Hungarian film, which won the 2015 Oscar for best foreign film, is about ...

May Day in the Southern U.S. About a 100 people gathered at the corner of Broad and College in Athens, Georgia for a May Day march and eve...

“Blood Lake, a Philomena Buscarsela Mystery,” by Kenneth Wishnia, 2014 Genre fiction has broken out of its cage so many times that it...

“The New New Thing – A Silicon Valley Story,” by Michael Lewis, 2000 This is the story of former Texan Jim Clark, an eccentric ADD ‘an...

"99 Homes,” a film by Ramin Bahrani, 2015 This is a companion to the film, “ The Big Short ” which did not dwell on the foreclosur...