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  • The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
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    Join ongoing weekly sessions of the MEP Literature Group as we read together The Aesthetics of Resistance, the masterwork of German author Peter Weiss. This trilogy of historical novels opens in 1937 and details the interactions of the narrator and his peers and family with historical figures of the European left engaged in the fight ... Read more

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  • Reading Science Fiction and Speculative Literature Politically – Spring 2026 Edition

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    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    Alternate Mondays, next on May 18, 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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