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The 1967 Paul Newman film Hombre is a classic revisionist western.

As a young man in the 1950s in a small village in Togo, West Africa, Tété-Michel Kpomassie was bitten by a snake while climbing a tree for coconuts.

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss has some notoriety among fantasy fiction readers, as its volume one of a trilogy that at the time of reviewing only has two volumes.

One of the least interesting things about Neanderthal's is why they vanished.

***Spoiler Alert***R.C.Sherriff is best known for his World War One play Journey's End and as the screenwriter for such classic films as The Dambusters and Goodbye, Mr Chips.

In July 1990 the Canadian state laid siege to an Indigenous Mohawk community near the town of Oka in Quebec.

The dull and sordid life of an unknown British agent in the 1960s is once again the delightful subject of Len Deighton's Funeral in Berlin.

I write this review the day news reaches us of a horrific tragedy in Nepal.

In 1936 a revolutionary movement swept the Spanish state.

Almost all of Ivan Doig's novels are, like Doig himself, rooted in Montana - even when they stray out of the state.

The gameshow format exploded in popularity in the US in the late 1950s.

Bill McGuire is a respected geologist and climate scientist.

Emmanuel Terray was a French political activist and Marxist anthropologist whose work was enormously important in the development of anthropological ideas.

In the early 1930s, as fascism in Germany grew from strength to strength, the great Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky wrote a series of pamphlets and articles to explain the nature of fascism and to argue for a working class strategy that could defeat it.

In 1938 George Clare, then aged 17 and an Austrian Jew, fled Vienna where he had grown up to escape the Nazi annexation of the country.

Well they always say you shouldn't be afraid to try new things.

As Socialist Worker editor Tomáš Tengely-Evans has had to cover more than their share of imperialist conflict and the threat of such conflict.

From the end of World War One through to the 1950s Eastern Europe's peasant societies were engaged in a new continuous "Peasant War".

Despite my love of Iain M.

The third volume of Bryan D.

Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry is a delightfully cynical black comedy.

Volume two of Bryan D.

Three great works of Marxism mark the transition from Marx and Engels' work on economics into the modern era.

In January 1848, Francesco Bagnasco, a radical Scilian who believed in the "universal regeneration" of society in the face of inequality, unemployment and hunger, spoke:The time of useless prayers has passed.

*** Spoilers ***Apparently R.F.

Grey Ginther and Ezzy Desjarlais are two Métis cousins living in an old trailer near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

I picked up Talk Treaty to Me at a left-wing bookshop in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as part of my reading during a trip to Canada this month.

A Column of Fire is the third book in the Kingsbridge series - Ken Follett's incredible popular novels set around the mythical Cathedral town of Kingsbridge.