Radical Society
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Radical Society (the full name is Radical Society: A Review of Culture and Politics) is a quarterly journal published by Radical Society, Ltd. It continues the journal Socialist Review (US). Timothy Don is the current editor of Radical Society.
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[edit] History
Radical Society was launched in April 2002 with the 29th volume of journal. The founding editors of Radical Society were Kira Brunner, Gina Neff, Rachel Neumann, and Greg Smithsimon. Lisa M. Brown, an illustrator and wife of Daniel Handler, designed the layout.
Volumes 29 and 30 were published by Routledge.
Beginning with volume 31 the journal was independently published by Jonathan Stenger of Radical Society, Ltd. of New York.
[edit] Purpose and Mission
In the first issue, the editors wrote that the inspirations for the journal were "both old and new--from The Masses and Emma Goldman's Mother Earth to the Harlem Renaissance and the Paris Commune, from the end of the cold war to the beginnings of a new global justice movement." [1]
[edit] Authors and Artists
Radical Society has published an interviews of filmmaker John Sayles and historian Howard Zinn, New Yorker writer George Packer, and sociologist Stanley Aronowitz. They have also printed essays by Agnes Heller, Daraka Larimore-Hall, Stephen Duncombe, Doug Henwood, Liza Featherstone, Christian Parenti, William Thornton, Lisa Levy, Daniel Radosh, Jennifer Lena and Allen Shelton.
[edit] References
- ^ "From the Editor," Radical Society, 29, 1, April 2002.
