Reading List // December 2023

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Books and Journal Articles:

Books:

Duncan, Mike. 2017. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic. New York: PublicAffairs.

Monville, Aymeric. 2023. Neocapitalism According to Michel Clouscard. Translated by Philippe Gendrault. Madison: Iskra Books.

Parenti, Michael. 1997. Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism & the Overthrow of Communism. San Francisco: City Lights Books.

Book Chapters:

Guerra, Lillian. 2019. “Searching for the Messiah: Staging Revolution in the Sierra Maestra, 1956–1959.” In The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959–1980. Michael J. Bustamante and Jennifer L. Lambe (eds), 67–94. Durham: Duke University Press.

Peters, Christabelle. 2019. “When the ‘New Man’ Met the ‘Old Man’: Guevara, Nyerere, and the Roots of Latin-Africanism.” In The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959–1980. Michael J. Bustamante and Jennifer L. Lambe (eds), 170–188. Durham: Duke University Press.

Journal Articles:

Gessner, Robert. 1935. “Brown Shirts in Zion: Jabotinsky—The Jewish Hitler.” New Masses. 11–13. February 19.

Films:

[↻ = Rewatch]

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

The Holdovers (2023)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

The House Bunny (2008)

Pete Holmes: I Am Not For Everyone (2023)

Wild Plants of Palestine (2018)

World War II: From The Frontlines (2023)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

Aché (2010)

Past Lives (2023)

Dream Scenario (2023)


Image: Taylor R. Genovese, December 26, Surgery Selfie, Danbury, Connecticut.
Written on December 31, 2023