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Cultural appropriation, race-baiting, and the power of fiction: in defence of Lionel Shriver

November 12, 2016by James Robb 10 Comments

US novelist Lionel Shriver ruffled a few feathers – to put it mildly – when she spoke at the Brisbane Writers Festival in September. Shriver took aim at ‘identity politics’ […]

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Africa, class struggle, fiction, Kurdish struggle, literature, Maori struggle, music, national self-determination, petty-bourgeoisie, race-baiting, racism

“Really living life” vs the Russian Revolution: Watching Doctor Zhivago fifty years on

February 1, 2015by James Robb 4 Comments

When you’re trapped in an aeroplane seat for twelve hours, you will watch almost any movie to take your mind off the noise of the engines and the thought of […]

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communism, fiction, First World War, literature, movies, petty-bourgeoisie, revolution, Russia, Russian revolution, slander, Stalinism

Another digression

February 18, 2014by James Robb Leave a comment

Well, I said there would be occasional digressions from what is primarily a blog of working class politics and history. Last weekend I picked some wild blackberries, for the first […]

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