Ben Ehrenreich’s most recent books include The Way to the Spring, based on his reporting from the West Bank, and Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time, which was awarded an American Book Award in 2021.
At the US Social Forum in Detroit, activists from diverse backgrounds are making common cause.
The Latin American utopia has disappeared, says novelist and crackero Jorge Volpi, and he displays little nostalgia for it.
In Evelio Rosero's The Armies, war is like the Law in Kafka: cruel, implacable and coldly divine.
In the wake of the controversial Supreme Court decision that put him in office, George W. Bush's inauguration was filled with protests.