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Found 3 books

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Mentions on MR
Modernism
What I’ve been reading (2025-10-23)

Terry Eagleton, Modernism: A Literature in Crisis .  The book is short, its quality unevenly distributed, and the subtitle misleading (plenty of it is not about literature).  It remains the case that Eagleton is one of the people who knows enough that he is almost always worth reading.

Across the pond
Claims about the United Kingdom (2013-06-27)

That is from Terry Eagleton’s Across the Pond: An Englishman’s View of America , which is sometimes amusing.

Why Marx was right
*Why Marx was Right* (2011-03-17)

That’s the new Terry Eagleton book , which apparently needs no subtitle.  Most of the claims in the book are correct, and they debunk superficial or incorrect readings of Marx.  In that regard it is useful and it is also clearly written.  Still, I have to judge it as a bad book, for instance:

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