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Nathan Thrall is a Jewish American journalist and former director of the Arab-Israeli Project, who now lives in Jerusalem. He has said that, as a critic of Israel, he is a lonely voice in his adopted home country.

Nathan Thrall is a Jewish American journalist and former director of the Arab-Israeli Project, who now lives in Jerusalem. He has said that, as a critic of Israel, he is a lonely voice in his adopted home country.

Near the end of his life, Albert Maltz looked back on his career as playwright-novelist-screenwriter and wistfully reflected, “It is not new for me to write something that falls like a pebble into a deep well.

In 1923, a Dakota-born writer-activist traveled through Oklahoma as a research agent of the Indian Rights Association to investigate abuses against the Choctaw, Creek, and other tribes. What she found and documented was an appalling rampage of fraud, larceny, racial intimidation, and murder.

This fascinating book doesn’t advance just one argument, nor is it uniform in its methods or style. Instead, its eight chapters take fresh and varied approaches to problems old and new—issues of history, politics, culture, and conscience.

In Albert Maltz’s newly republished novel about certain events that took place in January 1945, six escapees from Auschwitz—two women and four men, each from a different background and country—struggle to find and redefine themselves in their euphoria at being free, even as transient German an...

There’s been some lively discussion about how former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s newly released text message of January 2021—in which he confessed his desire to help end the life of an “Antifa creep”—relates to the nation’s long history of vigilante violence and lynching.

To celebrate the rediscovery of Albert Maltz and the republication of A Tale of One January, Alma Books caught up with literature professor Patrick Chura, University of Akron, who is writing the introductions to its new editions of Maltz’s novels. Alma Books: Dr.

In 2016, at the age of 86, Darko Suvin did something that would have taxed the energies of someone half his age. In that single year he published three books: one he wrote in English, a second he translated from Slovenian, another he translated from Croatian.

An indefatigable researcher, he wrote books about terrorists, anarchists, leftists and ordinary people and spent a lot of time in France’s archives.