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Steven Ray

stevenray@sfba.club

Joined 2 years ago

I’m interested in a multitude of things, including social justice, socialism, history, poetry, magical realism (fiction), capitalism, race and class struggle, plus stuff like wine, baseball and music.

So mostly non-fiction, though I read maybe two novels per year and maybe one poetry collection.

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Stuart Hall, David Morley: Essential Essays, Volume 1 (2019, Duke University Press)

From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to …

To me, this book is so crucial to understanding the media, politics and culture. You have to climb the mountain of Stuart’s vocabulary if, like me, your own is of a more pedestrian variety. But his perspective on how things ‘are’ and how we got here, even when some of these essays are several decades old, is so insightful. I’m very glad that I read this. Thanks for the education.