New York City. March 2020, the first days of the crisis that would define the year. The words “mutual aid” began to appear where they’d not been seen before, from lamp post flyers to Reddit neighborhood forums.
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Freedom in the Marshes
by Carrie Laben
Fifth Estate # 408, Winter, 2021
A review of The Beast and Other Tales by Jóusè d’Arbaud, translated by Joyce Zonana. Northwestern University Press 2020 “I was happy on this barren land that barely provides what I need to sustain this ancient body, but which grants …
Plague for Profit
by Carrie Laben
Fifth Estate # 408, Winter, 2021
a review of The Monster Enters: COVID-19 and the Plagues of Capitalism by Mike Davis. O/R Books 2020 As he has done in the past for California wildfires and famine in India, Mike Davis contextualizes pandemic disease in a matrix …
The People’s Republic of Everything
by Carrie Laben
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
a review of The People’s Republic of Everything by Nick Mamatas. Tachyon Publications 2018, tachyonpublications.com