May Day Books Blog

“Polar Star” by Martin Cruz Smith, 2007 / “The Factory,” Granta Magazine, 2005 What does a fiction story based in Siberia and the Berin...

Florida Will Sink We spent some time in the Tampa Bay Florida area last week on ‘spring breakdown.’   As the cranky Yankee, I still en...

“Dressed Up For a Riot – Misadventures in Putin’s Moscow,” by Michael Idov, 2018 This journalistic memoir by a New-York centric author a...

Your New Bosses, ah, "Fellow Citizens." The Citizenship Test: Here are some lowlights from the test booklet to become ...

“The Long Depression – Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism” by Michael Roberts, 2016 While you might be confused by the title a...

‘Southern Cultural Nationalism’ and Southern Liberals I went to a journalism seminar at the University of Georgia (UGA) campus in Athen...

“Black Panther,” film directed by Ryan Coogler, 2018 This poor film can’t carry the burden placed upon it.   It is to give all 10 year ...