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Review: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

A 4:3 crop of the cover of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

A middle-aged white woman smiled warmly at them from behind the till. “Lovely afternoon, isn’t it?” she said, abiding by that ancient and most sacred British law of only ever starting a conversation with a comment on the weather.

Chapter 12 of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
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Review: Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris

A square version of the front cover of Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris.
A square version of the front cover of Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris.

Starving the peasants into the factories is the classic narrative of proletarianization, the creation story of the industrial working class. California didn’t have the factories of a Manchester, UK; a Lyon, France; or a Lowell, Massachusetts, but the state took on a factory orientation towards what it did have, which was gold and land. Unlike so much of the world, California did not see capitalist economics evolve step-by-step out of feudal property relations. Capital hit California like a meteor, alien tendrils surging from the crash site.

Page 20 of Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris
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