“The richness, imaginativeness, and sheer learning of Francis Dupuis-Déri’s work is stimulating and impressive. George Katsiaficas, author of The Subversion of Politics Although little is known about these modern Zorros, this book critically reveals their origins and prospects. “Wearing black to mask their identities, the Black Bloc fights injustice globally. This book is the ideal antidote to the misinformation spread by the establishment, its defenders, and its false critics.” He treats the complex issues surrounding the tactic with an admirable balance of sympathy and sobriety. “Francis Dupuis-Déri’s discussion of Black Blocs is intimately well-informed, truly international in scope, and up-to-the-minute. “A level-headed, carefully researched inquiry into a subject that reduces most pundits to foaming at the mouth.” Lazer Lederhendler's profile page Editorial Reviews His work has earned him many distinctions in Canada and abroad, including multiple nominations for the Governor General’s Literary Award, which he won in 2008 for the translation of Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner. He is also the translator of Gaétan Soucy’s novel, The Immaculate Conception, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for French to English translation, and the winner of the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation awarded by the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Lazer Lederhendler is a full-time freelance translator specializing in contemporary Québécois fiction and nonfiction.

His father, Thomas Déri, is a former publisher, an editor and translator, co-founder of the Librairie du Québec bookstore in Paris, and former director of the Salon du livre book fair in Montreal. Francis Dupuis-Déri teaches political science at Université du Québec à Montréal and is the author of numerous books and articles about anarchism, including Who's Afraid of the Black Blocs? Anarchy in Action Around the World (Between the Lines, 2013).

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