BLF's Nikil Saval On His Favorite Reads

Philadelphia-based writer and editor Nikil Saval will speak on the BLF 2013 panels "Big Questions: Who Do You Think You Are?" on Monday, March 18, 6pm, and "n+1: A Discussion on Publishing and Reporting" on Tuesday, March 19, 3pm. Saval is an associate editor of n+1 and contributor to the London Review of Books, Etiqueta Negra, and n+1.

Trotsky, by Isaac Deutscher
"Deutscher's three-volume biography of Leon Trotsky is a masterpiece of political thinking and narrative art."

Labor and Monopoly Capital, by Harry Braverman
"A beautiful, original and unflinching look at the degradation of labor over the 20th century."

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, by Rebecca Solnit
"One of the best books of the previous decade, a lyrical account of how the modern world was born in California, told through the complex life of an innovative photographer."

The Writer and the World, by V.S. Naipaul
"Some of the most controversial essays of our time, about the contradictions of the postcolonial world."

Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt, by Ching-Kwan Lee
"A brilliant sociological account of the changing logic of labor protest in northern and southern China."

Tickets for Nikil's BLF events are currently on sale at The Bookworm.

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