None of these three books will be available soon, but they look interesting.

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Sojourning for freedom : Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism.

by Erik S. McDuffie. Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.

McDuffie has written on Black women in the Communist Party. His perspective seems to be the “revisionist” school of CP historiography.

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In the Shadow of State Power: C. L. R. James, Direct Democracy, and National Liberation Struggles

by Matthew Quest. AK Press Distribution, 2012.

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A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance

by Claudio Pavone. Verso Books, 2011.

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Also, Lydia Davis reviews the John Ashbery translations of Rimbaud’s Illuminations (“Rimbaud’s Wise Music“) in a recent Sunday Book Review of The New York Times .