Thoughts of Ed Walker
Essays, extracts, translations and reviews on socially engaged writing.
26 October 2026
Sally Rooney says she thinks about the world through a Marxist framework, but where does this place her work in the Irish literary canon?
22 October 2026
Writing about the recent past means navigating unreliable memories and plausible anachronisms.
20 September 2026
Forget the solitary antihero. In network noir it is activists with complementary skills who drive the story - but in conditions that are not of their own choosing.
8 December 2024
Graf’s novel about a retired petty-bourgeois postmaster lays bare how both political passivity and enthusiastic support helped fascism take hold in Germany.
9 September 2024
DDC Morgan’s speedway thriller, Blood & Cinders, evokes the smells of post-war London: paraffin, engine oil, brilliantine, untipped cigarettes and cheap perfume.
27 July 2024
An introduction to Graf’s novel about petty-bourgeois supporters of the Nazi movement.
28 November 2020
C.G. Gibbs’s working-class novel Factory Days, which avoids "workerist" sentimentality about factory life.
9 July 2019
A translated chapter from We Are Prisoners: an anarchist community in Switzerland and a meeting with Kropotkin.
18 April 2019
Marking the birthday of the author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
8 April 2019
Graf’s 1965 foreword on proletarian literature and the responsibility of intellectuals.
20 January 2019
B. Traven’s novel behind the John Huston film, which is free to read online via Libcom.
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