By Bryn Glover The word ‘utopia’ was coined by Thomas More in 1516 for his book of that name in which he described a fictional South Atlantic island paradise. The implication was that such a place could never exist but even More realised that his word derived from the Greek ou-topia, meaning ‘no-place’, could easily beContinue reading “No place like home”
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Joyce’s politics
IN his fascinating but overlong and sometimes unfocussed ‘political life’ of James Joyce – the biographer himself died in 2021 so was perhaps unable to make the necessary cuts to a 909-page text – Frank Callanan gives us a portrait of the artist as a young socialist who became disillusioned with socialism once he leftContinue reading “Joyce’s politics”
Alliance for Green Socialism 