A Literature for Politics is dedicated to a different set of possibilities- the possibilities of political engagement. In this, however, we are also dedicated to a different understanding of what constitutes political literature.
One of the most pervasive commonplaces of the twentieth century is that literature and politics don't mix. For example, leftist politics- with its dogmatism, its inflexibility, and its often simple notions of social change- goes against the predominant romantic notion of the artist.
It contains:
The Other Argentina,
Interviews of the Argentine Soldiers, Daniel Kon
The Joys of Journalists and Dictators, Andrew Graham-Yooll
Mrs Thatcher's Religious Pilgrimage,Jeremy Seabrook and Trevor Blackwell
The Literary Genius of Margaret Thatcher, 'But You, Mr President are a Sailor'
The Holocaust Reinterpreted,
The Indictment of Israel, Boaz Evron
The Wall, Jurek Becker
Memoirs of an Anti Semite, Gregor von Rezzori
The interrogation of Adolf Eichmann
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Peter Weiss
Introduction to a Variation, Milan Kundera
How to Read the Comics, Ariel Dorfman
An Unfathomable Ship, Uwe Johnson
A CIty of the Dead, A City of the Living, Nadine Gordimer
South Of Nowhere, Antonio Lobo Antunes