144. Victor Serge, Anarchist Bolshevik -- Mitchell Abidor

144. Victor Serge, Anarchist Bolshevik -- Mitchell Abidor

Today Mitch Abidor joins me to discuss Victor Serge: acclaimed novelist, anarchist, Bolshevik, anticommunist, and all-around 20th century contradiction. Mitch and I discuss the legend of Serge, what's true about it, and the ways that Serge fails to live up to the legend.

You can find Mitch's writing all over the place, but here's a good place to start: https://jewishcurrents.org/author/mitchell-abidor

And here's the NYRB page for Serge's work: https://www.nyrb.com/collections/victor-serge

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185. Radicalism in the American Revolution

185. Radicalism in the American Revolution

Here's an introduction to a new series on Radicalism in the American Revolution, in honor of/in frustration with 250 years of America.Soon to come: Jefferson on Race, the American constitutional tradi...

22 Apr 15min

184. The Horizontal Transcendence of the Everyday -- Clare Carlisle

184. The Horizontal Transcendence of the Everyday -- Clare Carlisle

How do you know your life is worthwhile? How do connect to the world around you? What sort of life is worth living?In her new book, Transcendence for Beginners, the philosopher and biographer Clare Ca...

15 Apr 52min

183. Mrs. Orwell -- Andrea Chalupa

183. Mrs. Orwell -- Andrea Chalupa

Eric Blair, known as George Orwell, had all of his successes after he met and married Eileen O'Shaughnessy. The graphic novel Mrs. Orwell, written by Andrea Chalupa, is the story of how George Orwell ...

1 Apr 44min

182. A Door Into Ocean -- Joan Slonczewski

182. A Door Into Ocean -- Joan Slonczewski

Joan Slonczewski joins me to discuss their novel A Door Into Ocean, a science fiction novel about an all-female society of "sharers" on an ocean planet, Shora. Joan's sharers are one of the best specu...

18 Mar 50min

181. The Language of Incompleteness -- Amit Chaudhuri

181. The Language of Incompleteness -- Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri joins me to discuss his new collection of essays, Incompleteness. In these essays and his novels, Amit is constantly searching for new language that will acknowledge the instability and...

11 Mar 1h

180. Aurora -- Kim Stanley Robinson

180. Aurora -- Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson comes back to discuss Aurora, his novel of a generational starship, in which generations of humans are born, live, and die onboard without ever seeing a planet. We discuss the gen...

25 Feb 1h

179. Socialism from Bernie to Mamdani -- Dan Chiasson

179. Socialism from Bernie to Mamdani -- Dan Chiasson

Dan Chiasson joins me to discuss his combined Bernie and Burlington biography, Bernie for Burlington, and the connections between Bernie's socialism and Mamdani's socialism.You can purchase Dan's book...

4 Feb 57min

178. Fighting for the Future of PM Press -- Ramsey Kanaan

178. Fighting for the Future of PM Press -- Ramsey Kanaan

For almost 20 years, PM Press has been publishing brilliant anarchist books, including many covered on this podcast. Co-Founder Ramsey Kanaan joins me to discuss what PM Press does, how it works on an...

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