Maiseh Review

As 2015’s pre-political season became centered on the arrival of Trump and the public emergence of the alt-right, some peculiarities started to show up at rallies and online. Accusations were abounding that a secretive “cabal” of elites was exploiting our country’s youth for some type of

A while back I did a lengthy interview with socialist author and organizer Daniel Randall about his new book, Antisemitism on the Left: Arguments for Socialists [https://www.nopasaran.media/confronting-antisemitism-on-the-left-arguments-for-socialists/] , which is a series of interlocking essays confronting the issue of left-

To close out the year I collected a slightly larger list of titles to review, some of which are somewhat older yet still within the last decade, and others that are new releases from 2022. The year itself saw certain trends rise to the top of the horror pile, particularly

“So when do you think we might be able to get rid of the Christmas Tree? It’s taking up an entire shelf in the garage,” my wife gently pressed me, easily for the third time. It was December 10th and we had no plan for erecting our plastic imitation

To many, last month’s brutal attack on a queer nightclub in Colorado Springs, in which five people were killed and 25 were injured, was the logical [https://religiondispatches.org/colorado-springs-massacre-captures-the-christian-nationalist-monster-in-the-mirror/] conclusion [https://religiondispatches.org/when-violence-is-inevitable-club-

Despite conservatives in America feigning their undying support for “free speech,” when it comes to Israel, those convictions often vanish when it comes to even mild criticism of Israel. A recent Texas state bill [https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/31/texas-boycott-israel-lawsuit/] was introduced that, among other

If there’s one word I never want to hear in a major news story ever again, it’s “antifa.” Part of this is because of the massive conspiracy infrastructure the right has built around it [https://politicalresearch.org/2021/07/13/great-2020-antifa-scare]. It has created a

This was a particularly strong month, and we are going to return to this month’s top pic pick shortly as part of our series on Jewish horror. As with the rest of the year, horror comics continue to outpace particularly short horror fiction, part of the momentary popularity of

As the ballots cast on November 8th reveal, our entire political system has been cast into a catastrophic state of flux. This may be most true for the GOP, whose search for identity continues to walk further into the previously fringe elements of their base. Backing their star quarterback (Trump)

With Halloween closing out October (the day this is published), you'd think there would be a denser list of titles, but this is actually more of a list of books straddling the line between traditional horror and adjacent genres. It is also a comics heavy month, and we

As the pandemic ramped up early in 2020, it was the hasidim that really made people angry. Hasidic communities in Brooklyn and the rest of New York State were amongst the hardest hit by the pandemic, with thousands rapidly infected, making them amongst the most severely impacted in the U.

In reviewing new titles for September, we were able to check in on some great new releases from earlier this year and can highlight some especially notable releases. With the horror genres expanding so rapidly, and particularly sub-genres like New Lovecraftian and folk horror that were previously left to

Halfway through August this year, something familiar happened. More than four hundred and twenty gallons of crude oil spread across Galveston Bay [https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2022/08/17/cleanup-efforts-underway-after-more-than-420-gallons-of-crude-oil-spills-into-tabbs-bay-near-houston-officials-say/

While figures like Blake Masters are turning heads with their open nationalist agenda and Marjorie Taylor Greene is trying to criminalize trans people on a nationwide scale [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-wants-to-criminalizes-transgender-medical-care] , one far-right celebrity race has

The summer has seen such a density of horror releases that it has been hard to keep up, but I wanted to keep a log of some of the favorites we are closing out August with. In the coming months we know that even more genre titles will be coming

If anarchists know Jewish history at all, it is likely the role of Jewish radicalism in the political battles of the early 20th century. Jews made up huge portions of the anarchist and socialist movement as Ashkenazi immigrants flooded New York City’s Lower East Side or London’s East

In my time in and around radical politics, Francis Fukayama has always been the archetypal picture of an almost threatening level of stasis. His 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man [https://www.amazon.com/End-History-Last-Man/dp/B07GFPV7H1/1953813046/ref=as_li_tl?ie=

Into July this year, horror comics continue to crowd out the standard narrative fair, something that is likely to continue as major horror books hit Local Comic Shops over the next few months. We are also noting that authors who had previously been relegated to genre publishers and numerous anthologies

We are taking a slight diversion from our regular publishing today to tell you about this new book, edited by me (Shane Burley), and featuring a great cast of characters. Back in 2018 I had an idea to pull together a large-scale antifascism anthology, and for the last four

Amidst the flurry of news about the Highland Park, Illinois shooting this 4th of July, one video stood out. The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band kept playing, uninterrupted as an increasingly frantic crowd ran the other direction [https://twitter.com/lynnsweet/status/1543992717105135617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1543992717105135617%

When our politics is dotted with tumorous grotestequires, caricatures comes naturally. The cartoonist Eli Valley has made a name for himself lapooning the growing excesses of the American (and Israeli) Jewish establishment, especially gargantuan political figures weilding accusations of antisemitism against desenters at a rapid fire pace. Inherently critical of

One of the challenges that has emerged in both scholarship and journalism on the far-right is the confusing self-understanding both far-right organizations and the social movements that contain them have. There is often a break between stated ideologies and internal ones, political proposals and practical action. This