American Literature
Events
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The Fallout of War: Metonyms of Militarism
FeaturedRecording available on YouTubeVideo available at https://youtu.be/h0dYxI2zDoY
In the second of two linked sessions, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture presents their collective research on a keyword of contemporary cultural studies - war - and investigates its many valences as lived reality and as metaphor. Taking account of war as constitutive of the present, the working group explores war's myriad meanings.Free – $12.00 -
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‘The Man Who Changed Colors’
Recording available on YouTubeVideo available at https://youtu.be/ABOczzUs8nQ
Bill Fletcher Jr's 'The Man Who Changed Colors' delves into the complicated relationships between Cape Verdean Americans and African Americans, Portuguese fascist gangs, and abusive shipyard working conditions. When a dockworker falls to his death under strange circumstances, investigative journalist David Gomes is on the case. His dogged pursuit of the truth puts his life in danger and upends the scrappy Cape Cod newspaper he works for.Free – $12 -
Summertime … and the Living Ain’t Easy: Black Noir
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Marxist Education Project's Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society - and, in our selected books by Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Bill Fletcher Jr. - corruption in the workplace, in unions, and among workers.
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Summertime … and the Living Ain’t Easy: Black Noir
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Marxist Education Project's Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society - and, in our selected books by Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Bill Fletcher Jr. - corruption in the workplace, in unions, and among workers.
Free – $50 -
Summertime … and the Living Ain’t Easy: Black Noir
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Marxist Education Project's Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society - and, in our selected books by Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Bill Fletcher Jr. - corruption in the workplace, in unions, and among workers.
Free – $50 -
Summertime … and the Living Ain’t Easy: Black Noir
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Marxist Education Project's Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society - and, in our selected books by Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Bill Fletcher Jr. - corruption in the workplace, in unions, and among workers.
Free – $50 -
Summertime … and the Living Ain’t Easy: Black Noir
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Marxist Education Project's Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society - and, in our selected books by Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Bill Fletcher Jr. - corruption in the workplace, in unions, and among workers.
Free – $50 -
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Summertime … and the Living Ain’t Easy: Black Noir
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Marxist Education Project's Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society - and, in our selected books by Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Bill Fletcher Jr. - corruption in the workplace, in unions, and among workers.
Free – $50 -
Summertime … and the Living Ain’t Easy: Black Noir
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Marxist Education Project's Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society - and, in our selected books by Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Bill Fletcher Jr. - corruption in the workplace, in unions, and among workers.
Free – $50 -
Summertime … and the Living Ain’t Easy: Black Noir
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Marxist Education Project's Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society - and, in our selected books by Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Bill Fletcher Jr. - corruption in the workplace, in unions, and among workers.
Free – $50 -
Summertime … and the Living Ain’t Easy: Black Noir
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Marxist Education Project's Literature Group continues its summertime tradition of reading noir fiction: the popular American crime genre that explores the corruption of society - and, in our selected books by Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, and Bill Fletcher Jr. - corruption in the workplace, in unions, and among workers.
Free – $50 -
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Darkest Los Angeles
Institute for the Radical Imagination NY, United StatesReading GroupDennis Broe leads a group reading of his five Los Angeles novels set in the film-noir period of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The contradictions we will unearth in that postwar period, the period of crime films that visually documented this seedy reality, have never been resolved, only continually papered over, and so they resound today.
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Octavia Butler: ‘Positive Obsession’ and ‘Wild Seed’
Reading GroupAlternate Mondays, Next on December 8, 5-6:30 pm ET Watch for new selections coming soon, featuring Frankenstein and the Chicano Frankenstein. Join us for a new appreciation of Octavia Butler, beginning with Susana M. Morris’s pathbreaking new biography, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia Butler followed by Butler’s prophetic Wild Seed and other ... Read more
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Reading Science Fiction and Speculative Literature Politically – Spring 2026 Edition
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupAlternate Mondays, next on June 15, 5-6:30 pm ET MEP's alternative literature group begins a new series of novels, short fiction and non-fiction. Speculative fiction, reborn from traditional science fiction, and also known by its alter ego "visionary fiction" and other identities, including horror, more than ever offers space for exploration of class, race, gender, ... Read more
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Reading Science Fiction Politically – Midterms Edition
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupNext on June 29, 5-6:30 pm ET Reading Science Fiction Politically, Midterms edition explores climate crisis, artificial intelligence in politics, a reawakened Klan, and more by way of four recent novels and selected short stories. Have you noticed that, as contemporary politics veers into the fantastical, more writers have embraced the fantastical, speculative, visionary, horror ... Read more
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