Literature

A new PBS documentary explores the life and career of literary figure José Lezama Lima in revolutionary Cuba. Cuban writers Manuel Pereira and José Lezama Lima in a poetry session in 1970. (Gabrish, Wikimedia Commons) EcuRed, the state-run Cuban encyclopedia, describes José Lezama Lima as “one of the greatest figures” of the island’s literature, a writer of “astonishing erudition” who “constructs his phrases to perfection.” But, as the new PBS documentary Letters to Eloísa recounts, whereas Lezama was admired across the rest of the Spanish-speaking world, it wasn’t until twenty years after his death that he was officially recognized in Cuba. Indeed, towards the end of his life, the state banned Lezama from publishing, prevented him from collecting p...

By Carol Duff, MSN, BA, RN Karen J. Greenberg Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of America from the War on Terror to Donald Trump, Karen J. Greenberg. ISBN: 978-0-69121-583-9(Hard Cover), ISBN: 978-0-69121-656-0 (ebook), Princeton University Press. How policies forged after September 11 were weaponized under Trump and turned on American democracy itself In the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, the American government implemented a wave of overt policies to fight the nation’s enemies. Unseen and undetected by the public, however, another set of tools were brought to bear on the domestic front. In this riveting book, one of today’s leading experts on the US security state shows how these “subtle tools” imperiled the very foundations of democracy, from the separation of p...

By Carol Duff, MSN, BA, RN  Donald T. Critchlow Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation into Tyranny, Donald T. Critchlow. ISBN: 978-1-68451-124-2, eISBN: 978-1-68451-149-5, Regnery History. All sparked movements in the name of liberating their people from their oppressors—capitalists, foreign imperialists, or dictators in their own country. These revolutionaries rallied the masses in the name of freedom, only to become more tyrannical than those they replaced. Much has been written about the anatomy of revolution from Edmund Burke to Crane Brinton Crane, Franz Fanon, and contemporary theorists of revolution found in the modern academy. Yet what is missing is a dissection of the revolutionary minds that destroyed the old for the creation of a more harmful new. ...

Weir’s book on the hidden history of the Israel lobby published in Spain CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG (L) Cover of Spanish edition of Alison Weir's book. (R) Photo of Weir from El Pais article about book. Alison Weir’s book, which has sold over 50,000 copies in English, has just been published in Spain and has been featured in the “most-read” Spanish-language newspaper on the Internet… Alison Weir’s book “Against Our Better Judgment: The hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel” has just been published in Spanish by Capitán Swing, a Madrid book publisher. The Spanish title is “La Historia Oculta de la Creacion del Estado de Israel.” The book has been featured in an article in El Pais newspaper, reportedly the second most...

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