skopia
Enslaved people freed themselves, Du Bois argues, walking off plantations in a general strike that broke the Confederacy. He then shows what Black voters built during Reconstruction and who tore it down.
Sentenced to twenty years by Mussolini's courts, Gramsci filled thirty-odd notebooks explaining why revolutions fail: the powerful rule by consent, through schools, churches, and newspapers that make their order feel like common sense.
One day in the life of Bakha, who cleans latrines in a small Indian town and is slapped for brushing against a high-caste man. Anand renders caste from its lowest rung.
On the Irish Catholic South Side of Chicago, a boy leaves eighth grade certain he is somebody. Farrell tracks Studs through poolrooms, gangs, and drink into the Depression, withholding every consolation.
Harriet Vane, mystery novelist, returns to her Oxford women's college, where someone is sending obscene letters and destroying scholarship. Nobody dies. The question is whether a woman can have both work and love.