"The noted linguist and leftist stalwart meets Uruguay's former president in wide-ranging conversation.now that Mujica is no longer with us, it has a certain poignancy. A valuable record of two contrarian political thinkers coming together to find common ground." -- Kirkus Reviews " Surviving the Twenty-First Century has its origins in a documentary by Alvídrez featuring interviews and conversations with two of the foremost intellectuals of the twentieth century: Noam Chomsky and José Mujica. To be expected, both thinkers really know their stuff, but the reader who accepts the challenge of following these two brilliant men's analysis may find themselves rethinking much of what they thought they knew." -- Booklist "Though Mujica did not publish much writing, his views on life and politics live on through the corpus of visitors' interviews.A well-timed new addition, out last month from Verso, takes the form of a lengthy series of conversations between Mujica and the leftist linguist Noam Chomsky, moderated by the Mexican documentarian Saúl Alvídrez. Surviving the 21st Century , compiling transcripts of conversations for a companion documentary, sees the two men holding forth on empire, the environment, love, and China.

" --Sammy Feldblum, The Baffler.