The Summer List You Didn’t Know You Needed: Jacobin’s 2021 Beach Reads
Here at Jacobin, we don’t just offer you radical political dispatches — we give you practical advice on how to improve your summer. Here are our top beach reads for the sweltering summer months.
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We offer you a steady stream of reading material here at Jacobin, but most of it probably couldn’t be considered beach material. Rather than remedy that by serializing Bhaskar Sunkara’s unpublished thriller novel about who really assassinated Swedish prime minister Olof Palme in 1986, we offer you here our staff’s and contributors’ picks for best summer reads.
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James
Earlier this summer, I interviewed Caribbean politics scholar Brian Meeks about Michael Manley’s democratic socialist administration in Jamaica in the 1970s and the political violence that doomed it. Meeks suggested I read Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings, and since Jacobin contributing editor (and former Bernie Sanders campaign foreign policy advisor) Daniel Bessner had also recommended the book, I gave it a shot.
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