May Day Books Blog

“Vera Drake” film by Mike Leigh, 2004 This is a realist, ‘kitchen-sink’ film about providing secret abortions in London in 1950.   Aborti...

  “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui,” by Bertolt Brecht, 1941. Adapted, 2016. Frank Theater Reading Frank Theater’s planned production of...

  “Harlem Shuffle” by Colson Whitehead, 2021 There’s a 1963 R&B song called “ The Harlem Shuffle .”   In a way there’s some literary ...

  “The Titans of Capital – How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity," by Peter Phillips, 2024 This is an update of Phillips’ excell...

  “Pacifism as Pathology – Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America” by Ward Churchill and Michael Ryan; Preface by Ed Mea...

  “The Bikeriders” a film by Jeff Nichols, 2023 This is a somewhat real story of a working-class subculture in the 1960s in Chicago, of g...

 “ Humanitarian Imperialism” by Jean Bricmont, 2006 This book was written during the invasion of Iraq, so it is infused by Bricmont's ...

 “ The Lehman Trilogy” a play by Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power, Guthrie Theater, 2024 This is the story of most of the history of ...

“Offshore – Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism” by Brooke Harrington, 2024 This is a book of reporting by a sociologist inspired by C...

  “ Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) This is an art show at the Weisman Museum on the U of Minnesota campus that c...