It’s summer, which means it’s time for a foray into service journalism: here are the beach reading recommendations of our staff and contributors.
We at Jacobin admittedly don’t usually provide you with a typical summer beach read list. Last year’s included a Weimar-era German Communist’s memoir that Europe editor David Broder claimed would make you say, “I wish I had got to smuggle booze for the Communist International’s shipping organization,” alongside more mainstream fare like Joshua Cohen’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Netanyahus. It’s called the dialectic.
This year’s books, too, may seem as completely unsuitable for beach reading as books could be. Historical studies of fanaticism, dictators’ memoirs, and tomes over five hundred pages? That’s our bread and butter here. But we like well-balanced meals, so we’ve included plenty of lighter fare, too. Happy beach reading.
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