One cannot read the writings of Rosa Luxemburg, even at this distance, without an acute yet mournful awareness of what Perry Anderson once termed 'the history of possibility.' -- Christopher Hitchens * Atlantic *
Transports us directly into the private world of a woman who has never lost her inspirational power as an original thinker and courageous activist ... [and] reveals that the woman behind the mythic figure was also a compassionate, teasing, witty human being. -- Sheila Rowbotham * Guardian *
She emerges as one of the most emotionally intelligent socialists in modern history, a radical of luminous dimension whose intellect is informed by sensibility, and whose largeness of spirit places her in the company of the truly impressive. -- Vivian Gornick * Nation *
[W]onderful ... The self-portrait in these pages is that of a professional revolutionary whose vocation is, if you'll pardon the expression, spiritual. Reading ... this book, I could not help falling in love with you, dear Rosa. -- Scott McLemee * Bookforum *
Paced almost like a novel, the 28 years covered by this collection pass by almost too quickly. -- Joel Schalit * Jewish Daily Forward *
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg is a ... kind of memorial, a kind of sliver of one woman's life bound together in one place ... Rosa Luxemburg comes alive in these pages ... if you love or admire or are just fascinated by [her], then you've no excuse not to buy this excellent book. * PopMatters *
This huge project is long overdue. Luxemburg's correspondence reveals an extraordinary range and breadth of concerns and interests * Times Literary Supplement *
Rosa goes on being our source of fresh water in thirsty times. -- Eduardo Galeano
Intrepid, incorruptible, passionate and gentle. Imagine as you read between the lines of what she wrote, the expression of her eyes. She loved workers and birds. She danced with a limp. Everything about her fascinates and rings true. One of the immortals. -- John Berger
