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Sujatha Fernandes

Karl Marx: Greatness and illusion by Gareth Stedman Jones

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March 2017, no. 389
Sujatha Fernandes reviews 'Karl Marx: Greatness and illusion' by Gareth Stedman Jones

In this 750-page tome, Gareth Stedman Jones, a British historian and former editor of New Left Review, seeks to rescue the revolutionary thinker Karl Marx from the ‘Marxism’  he sees as the creation of his long-time collaborator Friedrich Engels and to reconstruct him as part of the nineteenth-century political and philosophical context in which he ex ...

Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole

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November 2016, no. 386
Sujatha Fernandes reviews 'Known and Strange Things' by Teju Cole

In the opening piece of his book of collected essays, the novelist and photography critic Teju Cole feels briefly possessed by the spirit of James Baldwin who, like him, travelled outside the ...

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