Lyndsey Stonebridge
British literary historian and critic; professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham; author of We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience (2024).
If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
Interestingly, the human rights lawyer Itamar Mann, who works for an organization called Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), sent a copy of If This Is a Man to the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
on fivebooks.com · 8 Apr 2021 · Report
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism is the first great book to try and understand totalitarianism.
on fivebooks.com · 8 Apr 2021 · Report
This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
And then you have This Mournable Body, which is set after independence, where everything is just getting corrupted and relentlessly going wrong.
on fivebooks.com · 8 Apr 2021 · Report
Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
In some ways, Three Guineas was the very late sequel to A Room of One’s Own, and it’s very well known as being Woolf’s great pacifist text.
on fivebooks.com · 8 Apr 2021 · Report
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