Literature
Events
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“We’re Going on an Adventure”: Summer Visionary Fiction
The MEP's Science and Visionary Fiction Reading Group will read Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin this summer. The catchphrase, "We're going on an adventure," signals the novel's overlapping themes of contemporary significance--desperate efforts to escape war and corporate destruction on Earth, species-level competition to make new homes elsewhere, and the varieties and the social significance ... Read more
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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 -
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Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
Online Event - Zoom MeetingSeptember 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government on September 11, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people, the MEP's Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before, during, and since the Pinochet dictatorship.
Free – $80 -
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Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
Online Event - Zoom MeetingSeptember 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government on September 11, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people, the MEP's Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before, during, and since the Pinochet dictatorship.
Free – $80 -
Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
Online Event - Zoom MeetingSeptember 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government on September 11, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people, the MEP's Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before, during, and since the Pinochet dictatorship.
Free – $80 -
Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
Online Event - Zoom MeetingSeptember 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government on September 11, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people, the MEP's Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before, during, and since the Pinochet dictatorship.
Free – $80 -
Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
Online Event - Zoom MeetingSeptember 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government on September 11, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people, the MEP's Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before, during, and since the Pinochet dictatorship.
Free – $80 -
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Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
Online Event - Zoom MeetingSeptember 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government on September 11, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people, the MEP's Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before, during, and since the Pinochet dictatorship.
Free – $80 -
Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
Online Event - Zoom MeetingSeptember 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government on September 11, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people, the MEP's Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before, during, and since the Pinochet dictatorship.
Free – $80 -
Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
Online Event - Zoom MeetingSeptember 2023 marks fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government on September 11, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people, the MEP's Literature Group dedicates two eight-week series to Chilean writers active before, during, and since the Pinochet dictatorship.
Free – $80 -
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Chile’s 9/11: Fifty Years of Literary Resistance
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading group in progress, ending 2/8/24. September 2023 marked fifty years since the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government on September 11, 1973. To honor the struggles and sufferings of the Chilean people, the MEP's Literature Group is reading Chilean writers active before, during, and since the Pinochet dictatorship.
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Palestine: Celebrating 75 Years of Literature
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupRead Palestinian fiction, poetry, and related literature in weekly meetings with the MEP's Literature Group. The ongoing catastrophe in the Middle East breaks our hearts daily. As part of our mission to explore creative political resistance to oppression, we will read several novels and poems by Palestinian authors.
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Reading Science Fiction Politically: Diverging Futures
FeaturedIn Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba, edited by Basma Ghalayini, as well as other recent books, Palestinian authors have begun to discover the power of science fiction. "Everyday life, for is a kind of dystopia." In this situation, "The real future --the actual future -- is unknowable. But for SF writers, ... Read more
Free – $75.00