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Producing the Present through the Past: Adam Smith and the Inevitability of the Economy
Jeremy Wolf

The Impact COVID had on Carceral Institutions in the United States
Kennedy Suzette Ratcliff

A Comparison of the Patient Wife in Boccaccio, Petrarch, Chaucer, and Lope
Carol Jamison and William O. Deaver

Book Review: James Söderholm, Prince Hamlet. Lioness Writing Ltd. 2021.    – Free Content
Reviewed by Fevronia Novac

Book Review: Steve Herbert, Too Easy to Keep: Life-Sentenced Prisoners and the Future of Mass Incarceration. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2019.    – Free Content
Reviewed by Joseph S. Bakura

Special Issue: Journeys and Quests

Guest Editors:  Rodica Grigore & Jay Corwin

Introduction: Journeys and Quests
Rodica Grigore

My Journey with Calvino
Rui Zink

Impressions of a Brazilian in New Delhi
Fabio Akcelrud Durão (Translated by Tauan Tinti)

Peripheral Orientalism and the Creation of Arab Literary Precursors in
Quinteto de Mogador by Alberto Ruy Sánchez
Ignacio López-Calvo

A Journey to the Self: The Quest for Identity in Clarice Lispector’s Fiction
Rodica Grigore

Quests for a Change of Territories: Forms of Dystopia and Transfiction in
La autopista: the movie, by Jorge Enrique Lage
Nanne Timmer

Horizons and Landscapes
Pedro Serrano

Un viaje a la literatura. Confesiones de un lector
(A Journey to Literature. Confessions of a Reader)
Alonso Cueto

Ir, regresar, quedarse, o tres formas de inventar el mundo
(Go, Return, Stay or Three Forms of Inventing of the World)
Rafael Ángel Herra

Los viajes del Barón von Humboldt a Cuba: vistas/visitas de su narrativa personal
(Baron von Humboldt’s Travels to Cuba: Views/Visits from his Personal Narrative)
 Fernando Valerio-Holguín

A Message from the Theory in Action Book Review Editor   – Free Content
Robert M. Worley

Book Review: Justin Brooks, You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You’re Innocent. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2023.   – Free Content
Reviewed by Matthew Jahnge

Book Review: Justin Brooks, You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You’re Innocent. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2023.   – Free Content
Reviewed by Tighe J. Bontempo

Book Review: Justin Brooks, You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You’re Innocent. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2023.   – Free Content
Reviewed by Kevin E. Holmwood

 
Guest Editor: Abraham DeLeon
 
Abraham P. DeLeon
The Tree of Knowledge and Paths of the Serpent

Kevin J. Holohan
Cartography of the Present: The Meaning Crisis and Maps for the Future

John Lupinacci
Spores of Mycelial Nature: A Tale of Radical Mycology for Ecocritical Education

Samantha Yanelli
Book Review: Joshua Gunn, Modern Occult Rhetoric: Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2005. ISBN-13: ‎978-0817314668 (hardcover). 260 Pages. $49.75.

Jason Rochester
Book Review: Felicity Wood, Universities and the Occult Rituals of the Corporate World: Higher Education and Metaphorical Parallels with Myth and Magic. Routledge, 2018. ISBN-13: 978-1138307117 (hardcover). 220 Pages. $170.

Shane Burley
Book Review: Monika Hübscher and Sabine von Mering, Eds., Antisemitism on Social Media. Routledge, 2022. ISBN-13: 978-1032059693 (paperback). 270 pages. $35.96.

Shane Burley
Book Reviews:

John S. Huntington, Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. ISBN-13: 978-0812253474 (hardcover). 312 Pages. $36.50.

Nicole Hemmer, Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s. Basic Books, 2022. ISBN-13: 978-1541646889 (hardcover). 368 Pages. $32.00.

George Hawley, Conservatism in a Divided America: The Right and Identity Politics. University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. ISBN-13: 9780-268203740 (hardcover). 368 Pages. $45.00.

Shane Burley
Examining the Blood Libel: Interview with Magda Teter

Eva Capelson
Book Review: Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward, Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail. Pantheon Books, 1977. ISBN-13: ‎978-0394726977 (paperback). 416 Pages. $15.75.

Temitope Peters
Book Review: Shane Burley (ed.), No Pasaran!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World In Crisis. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2022. ISBN-13 978-1849354820 (paperback). 564 Pages. $25.

Know Justice, Know Peace: Reflections from a community-based, action research collective
Tessa Hicks Peterson, Therese-Julia Uy, Claudia Vanessa Reyes, Dalia Paris-Saper and Keely Nguyen
 
Death as a Hidden Gem in Mircea Eliade’s “The Trenches”
Ali Shehzad Zaidi
 
Les Trois Grâces and Mircea Eliade’s Metaphysical Attempt to Control Illness
Fevronia Novac
 
Chandervati
Qudratullah Shahab Translated by Yasmeen Razi Zaidi
 
Violent Crime and Destiny Control: Theorizing a Missing Variable in Criminology
Todd Greene
 
Book Review: Michael Fiddler, Theo Kindynis, Travis Linnemann, Ghost Criminology: The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment. New York: New York University Press. 2022.   – Free Content
Reviewed by Sean Herp
 
Book Review: Carissa Byrne Hessick, Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining is a Bad Deal. New York: Abrams Press. 2021.   – Free Content
Kennedy Suzette Ratcliff

Dive In: Transformative Education, Direct Action, and Innovative Media Strategies in an (Inter)Collegiate Partnership to Save a Community Pool
Caroline K. Kaltefleiter
 
Journeys and Exile in Roberto Bolaño’s Novel The Savage Detectives
Rodica Grigore
 
Mahmud Darwish’s Prose and Poetry as Means of Peaceful Resistance for the Palestinians: The Importance of Re-Writing the History of Palestine
Manuel Enrique López Brenes and Roberto Marín Guzmán
 
Ghalib, the Heavenly Scribe of Earthly Sorrow
Ali Shehzad Zaidi
 
A Look at Ron Huff’s Contributions to Social Justice    – Free Content
Brian Forst Interviewed by Robert M. Worley

Colonias, Water, and Extractable Bodies: COVID19’s impact on the Rio Grande Valley
Hilario Molina and Robert Carley
 
No such thing as Capitalism or Socialism:
All societies have always been and continue to be caste systems
John Asimakopoulos
 
The Perversion of Populism in the 21st Century: The Ideology of the Elites and the Masses
Christian Schlaerth
 
The People Jhumpa Lahiri Little Likes
John Cussen
 
Book Review: Paolo Sollier, Kicks, Spits & Headers: The Autobiographical Reflections of an Accidental Footballer. Colchester/New York/Port Watson: Minor Compositions. 2022.    – Free Content
Reviewed by Gary L. Grizzle
 
Book Review: John Asimakopoulos, The Political Economy of the Spectacle and Postmodern Caste. Chicago: Haymarket Books. 2020.    – Free Content
Reviewed by Garrick B. Harden

Special Issue: Masks and Identity in Literature
Guest Editors: Rodica Grigore & Jay Corwin

Introduction: Masks and Identity
Rodica Grigore

Country Life
Rui Zink

Changing Identities: 23 Fragments on Contemporary Literature and Life
Fabio Akcelrud Durão

Violence and the Masks of Monsters in José Donoso’s Fiction
Rodica Grigore

Masks of the Author in Dazai Osamu’s Fiction
George T. Sipos

Vegatations: Truth and Disguise from Bertolt Brecht to Paul Celan
Pedro Serrano

Buscando a un personaje en la historia (y en las historias)
Looking for a Character in History (and in Stories)
Alonso Cueto

Crítica transatlántica a comienzos del siglo XXI
(Transatlantic Criticism at the Beginning of the 21^st Century)
Julio Ortega

La mirada animal en “Axolotl” de Julio Cortázar
(The Animal Gaze in Julio Cortázar´s “Axolotl”)
Fernando Valerio-Holguín

Máscaras reales y fragmentadas de Buenos Aires
(Real and Fragmented Masks of Buenos Aires)
Pablo Baisotti

Book Review: Max A. Greenberg, Twelve Weeks to Change a Life: At-Risk Youth in a Fractured State. University of California Press. 2019.    – Free Content
Reviewed by Andrew D. Arnold

Book Review: David C. Pyrooz and Scott H. Decker, Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Order of Prisons. Cambridge University Press. 2019.    – Free Content
Reviewed by Daniel P. Mears

Book Review: David J. Thomas, The State of American Policing: Psychology, Behavior, Problems, and Solutions. Praeger. 2019.    – Free Content
Reviewed by Patryk Jaroszkiewicz

 
Place-Based and Experiential Pedagogies: Teaching radical concepts in social movements and political sociology
Deric Shannon

Killing for Recognition: Mass Public Shootings in the Era of Hyper-Neoliberalism
Luigi Esposito and Fernando M. Perez

Postmodernism: The Evolution of Symbolic Interactionism and Critical Theory
John Asimakopoulos

Thinking About James Q. Wilson: Examining the Intellectual Contributions of One of the Greatest Criminal Justice Scholar.    – Free Content
Brian Forst Interviewed by Robert M. Worley

Book Review: Henry, J.S., Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened. University of California Press. 2020.   – Free Content
Reviewed by Rick Dale

Book Review: John Douglas and Mark Olshaker, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit. New York, NY: Pocket Books. 1995.   – Free Content
Reviewed by Ashley M. Werner

Book Review: Daniel P. Mears, Out-of-Control Criminal Justice: The Systems Improvement Solution for More Safety, Justice, Accountability, and Efficiency. Cambridge University Press. 2017.   – Free Content
Reviewed by Kennedy Ratcliff

Trans Theory and Intimate Partner Violence
Charlie Davis

Distant Theory in Comparative Literary Studies
Corin Braga

A Sufi tale from Alf Layla wa-layla (the Arabian nights): the story of Abu L-Hasan with Abu Ja‘far the leper. An analysis of the social and religious context of medieval Islam
Manuel Enrique López Brenes and Roberto Marín Guzmán

Towards strategic rioting?
Brian Martin

Toward Riotous Strategy
Benjamin S. Case

Book Review: Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper, Great Anarchists. London: Dog Section Press. 2020.
Reviewed by Gary L. Grizzle

 
Maxwell Ackerman
Book Review: Alexandros Schismenos, Chris Spannos, and Nikos Ioannou, Castoriadis and Autonomy in the 21^st Century. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1350123373 (hardcover). 240 Pages. $128.
 
Shane Burley
Book Review: Sol Goldberg, Scott Ury, and Kalman Weiser, Eds., Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. ISBN-13: 978-3030516574 (paperback). 336 Pages. $29.99.
 
Jay Jones
Book Review: Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, 2016. IBSN: 978-0-8223-6224-1 (Paperback). 312 Pages. $27.95.
 
Tamsin Kernick
Book Review: Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021 ISBN-13: ‎978-0374602512 (hardcover). 496 Pages. $22.99.
 
Shane Burley
Book Review: Peter Bergamin, The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology. I.B. Tauris, 2020. ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0755645008 (Paperback). 272 Pages. $39.95.
 
Megan Morgan
Book Review: David Boarder Giles, A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities. Duke University Press Books, 2021. ISBN-13: 978-1478014416 (paperback). 320 Pages. $28.95.