Mainstream WeeklyReviewed by Vsevolod Kritskiy (University of Amsterdam) __0__ Comintern Aesthetics
Amelia M. Glaser, Steven S. Lee, eds.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2020 Illustrations. xxi + 563 pp. $95.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4875-0465-6 __0__
In Comintern Aesthetics, editors Amelia M. Glaser and Steven S. Lee include sixteen diverse chapters that seek to “remap world literature and culture from the perspective of world communism” (p. 3). In a timely and welcome collection, the contributing (…)
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, seven others, jailed over Tiananmen memorial in 2020 | James Griffiths
17 December 2021(In the absence of practically no coverage on the issue in the Media in India we are carrying the below report from the Canadian paper The Globe and Mail)
by James Griffiths
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How battling France’s COVID pass led the Left to embolden the far Right | Philippe Marlière
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Photo: Hand of Great Leader - Beijing (2003) | Bogdan Konopka
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Music: Nobel Peace Prize Concert (2014) - Amjad Ali Khan, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash
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