In this, the first in-depth excavation beneath the headlines of an epochal moment in the conflict, leading Palestinian, Israeli, and international experts provide critical context to an unprecedented catastrophe in Gaza and Israel.

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Set in the author’s homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group. Throughout the story, Delgado-King interweaves the experiences of her own family, involved with Colombian politics since the 19th century and deeply afflicted, too, by the decades of violence there.

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Using a cache of hitherto unseen documents and exclusive insider accounts, this sensational new book tells the story of how a shadowy group, Labour Together, came to the cusp of delivering Sir Keir Starmer to power in Britain. It reveals, for the first time, the way the project sabotaged Corbynism through covert plotting, propelled Starmer to Labour’s leadership and now, having crushed the left in the party, poses an imminent threat to British democracy as a whole.

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Concrete Utopia conceptualizes the human rights project of the last two and a half centuries as a “backward-looking” endeavor, which, in order to move forward, must return to the utopian roots of its foundational documents.

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A sparkling new take on an age-old publication: The Other Almanac brings together a stellar group of young writers, artists and activists to pick up themes of environmentalism, gardening, recipes, folklore, seasonal savvy, and off- the-beaten-track amusement, all presented in brilliant color and eye-popping design. Out with the Old, in with the Other!

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Corporate Coup looks at the attempted overthrow of the elected government of Venezuela, an intervention which, despite open backing by the United States, failed spectacularly.

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Based on dramatic first-hand evidence, Deadly Betrayal uncovers why and how a cabal of Pentagon Advisors in the George W. Bush Administration created a fabricated justification to attack Iraq.

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This book focuses on several gender performers that resist and laugh at colonial projects through their aesthetic practices. Their dynamic sets the tone for the book, investigating how drag—and gender more broadly—has been privatized and delimited so that it’s only available to certain people. Decolonize Drag argues for more abundance in and access to fashioning gender, and considers how drag changes meaning and efficacy as it shifts across geographies.

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In this sparkling anthology Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey discuss the poems that have moved and enlightened them. Their choices travel over centuries and continents, with poets ranging from Shakespeare and Juana Inés de la Cruz, through William Blake and Emily Dickinson, to Bertolt Brecht, Stevie Smith and Linton Kwesi Johnson.

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The world’s most exuberant philosopher brings together characteristically provocative observations on war, Hollywood, and the hot topics of the day, to survey a world in which you don’t have to be mad to live, but it certainly helps.

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Tale of Ahmed is a gripping fictional account of the dangerous journey of a teenage boy, Ahmed, who travels from Afghanistan, across the Middle East and Europe, to seek refuge in England. Written in the form of an epic poem and richly illustrated by the author, this unusual fable recounts with great sensitivity the Afghans’ sufferings and their courage and resilience in making a grueling passage.

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With Open House, Coover reminds readers that his work is as steeped in literary history as it is forward-thinking experimentation. This tension—between old and new, between a romanticized past and a future we only pretend we can predict—provides the animating tension to Coover’s latest metafiction.

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I Dare Say: A Gerald Horne Reader is a timely and essential collection of the many works of Professor Gerald Horne—a historian who has made an indelible impact on the study of US and international history. Firmly rooted and insightful in its analysis, I Dare Say outlines what must be done to stem the tide of growing fascism across the Western world.

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Dispatches from the Diaspora brings together the vibrant journalism of one of the leading Black voices spanning the Atlantic, providing a must-read for anyone interested in the way we understand contemporary issues of race and identity.

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Len McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the giant Unite union for more than a decade, he is a unique and powerful figure on the political stage. Witty and sharp, McCluskey delivers a powerful intervention, issuing a manifesto for the future of trade unionism and urging the left not to lose sight of class politics.

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Institutionalized multiculturalism today is a muck of buzzwords, branding strategies, and virtue signaling that has nothing to do with real struggles against racism and colonialism. But Decolonize Multiculturalism unearths a buried history.

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Meticulously researched while reading like a fast-paced thriller, this explosive new book details the way the Israel lobby deployed charges of anti-Semitism to destroy Jeremy Corbyn’s bid for power as leader of the Labour Party.

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Elegantly written and charmingly illustrated, The Activist Angler shows how lessons learned from angling can guide political activism and vice versa. Patience, preparation and precision are needed to catch fish . . . and to build a movement.

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Bev Stohl ran the MIT office of the renowned linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky for nearly two and a half decades. This is her funny and charming account of those years, working next to a man described by the New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive today.” More

A Creature Wanting Form is a bleakly funny work of fiction from a journalist widely celebrated for his wry, mordant take on life. More

Here, 25 of the world’s most accomplished movement lawyers and activists become storytellers, reflecting on their experiences at the frontlines of some of the most significant struggles of our time. Their stories capture the complex, and often-awkward dance between legal reform and social change in a highly readable and original anthology. More

In Decolonize Self-Care, Alyson K. Spurgas and Zoë Meleo-Erwin deliver a comprehensive analysis and scathing critique of the burgeoning business of self-care. More

Russia’s brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire and an innocent victim. In this concise, accessible and highly informative primer, the authors insist the picture is more complicated. More

The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing tells the story of a hyper-observant, politically-minded, but humorously pragmatic weed dealer who has spent a working life compiling rules for how to a) make money and b) avoid prison. More

In an accessible yet fastidiously researched intervention Early Detection sets out the urgent necessity
of fundamentally re-directing the US’s approach to cancer treatment if President Biden’s recently announced prioritization of the issue is to be successful. More

This expanded edition of Extinction contains an extensive, new introduction by the author. Dawson asserts that the catastrophic extinction rate is the product of a global attack on the commons, the great trove of air, water, plants and creatures, as well as collectively created cultural forms such as language, that have been regarded traditionally as the inheritance of humanity as a whole. More

Much has been written In English about the experiences and treatment of immigrants from south of the Rio Grande once they have entered the United States. But this account, by the itinerant, effervescent and highly original journalist Belén Fernández, offers a different and wholly original take.. More

Canopy of Titans examines the global importance of the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest that stretches from Northern California to Alaska. It catalogs the threats to this vital environmental resource.

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The 11 lives given voice here are unique, each an expression of the myriad displacements that war and occupation have forced upon Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948. At the same time, they form a collective testament of a people driven from their homes and land by colonial occupation. Each story is singular; and each tells the story of all Palestinians.

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Written in a lively, accessible fashion and drawing extensively on interviews with people who were formerly incarcerated, Cars and Jails examines how the costs of car ownership and use are deeply enmeshed with the U.S. prison system.

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Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow sets out what the left needs to do to regain its sense of purpose: recognizing the advances that have been made in shaping policy agenda and intervening more confidently on the essential values of the Party. It assesses the position of Labour’s left in local government, in the internal structures of the Party and in the affiliated unions, and sets out a strategy for the left to maximise its impact and rediscover its relevance.

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Power Concedes Nothing tells the stories behind a victory that won both the White House and the Senate and powered progressive candidates to new levels of influence. It describes the on-the-ground efforts that mobilized a record-breaking turnout by registering new voters and motivating an electorate both old and new. In doing so it charts a viable path to victory for the vital contests upcoming in 2022 and 2024.

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In encountering Charlie’s tales in this concise and charming book, we come to realize that parrots are intelligent and loving creatures, to an extent that, as the renowned avian scientist Professor Irene Pepperberg points out in her introduction, they cannot meaningfully be owned by humans but only enjoyed as companions.

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Filled with stories of struggle and strength, fear and loss, love and rage, The Work of Living is a deeply human history of one of the defining events of the 21st century told by the people who lived it.

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In Operation Mindfuck, Robert Guffey argues that this is not as mysterious as QAnon’s anonymous “drops” of cryptic directives seem to be. Drawing on an encyclopedic knowledge of conspiracy theories and mixing deep-dive research, political analysis, and firsthand notes from QAnon’s underbelly, Guffey insists that we’ve seen it all before.

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The Dead Center takes an acerbic and often ribald eye to contemporary politics, particularly those of mainstream liberals in the United States. Combining engaging polemic and serious intellectual analysis, it offers a timely portrait of a political landscape sullied by an already ineffectual Biden administration, the marginalization of forces around Bernie Sanders and the ominous shadow of Donald Trump in the wings.

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With Decolonize Museums, Shimrit Lee punctures the fantasy of the the idealized Western museum, tracing the colonial origins of the concept of the museum. Citing pop culture portrayals from Indiana Jones to Black Panther and highlighting crucial activist campaigns to redress the harms perpetrated by museums and their proxies, Decolonize Museums argues that we must face a dismantling of these seemingly eternal edifices, and consider what, if anything, might take their place.

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Beyond Fossil Law: Climate, Courts, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future answers a pressing question for the future of the planet: why is it legal for companies to pump dangerous gases into the atmosphere but illegal for regular people to stop them? Reviewing the current state of “fossil law”—the rules and regulations that allow the disruption of the global climate system—the book explains how financial interest, colonial power, and outmoded legal ideas block efforts to prevent global warming.

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The Broken Boy is at once a memoir of Patrick Cockburn’s own experience of polio, a portrait of his parents, both prominent radicals, and the story of the Cork epidemic, the last great polio epidemic in the world.

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Profiling along the way storied Black leaders such as Martin Luther King, Malcom X and James Brown (for whom Glen Ford once worked), The Black Agenda looks, too, beyond American shores at US intervention in Libya, the Congo and the Middle East, showing how these are imbricated with racism at home.

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Heaven In Disorder looks with fervid dispassion at the fracturing of the Left, the empty promises of liberal democracy, and the tepid compromises offered by the powerful. From the ashes of these failures, Žižek asserts the need for international solidarity, economic transformation, and—above all—an urgent, “wartime” communism.

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The Art of Activism brings together the authors’ extensive practical knowledge—gleaned from over a decade’s experience training activists around the world—with theoretical insights from fields as far-ranging as cultural studies and cognitive science.

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TESLA: All My Dreams Are True jolts and flows between the extraordinary life of the inventor Nikolas Tesla, the making of a feature film about him by the celebrated director Michael Almereyda, and episodes from the filmmaker’s own restless, quixotic career.

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It is all worse than we think. It is even worse than Mike Davis, for whom “every day is judgment day” (The Nation), could have imagined. The contributions to this volume are explorations of what Davis—in typical wry fashion—once referred to as the field of “disaster studies.” Collectively, they show how our “disaster imaginary” has been rendered inadequate by the existing order’s ability to feed off and coopt our resistance to it.

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Reluctant Reformers explores the centrality of racism to American politics through the origins, internal dynamics, and leadership of the major democratic and social justice movements between the early nineteenth century and the end of World War II. It focuses in particular on the abolitionists, the Populist Party,
the Progressive reformers, and the women’s suffrage, labor, and socialist and communist movements.

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A vital riposte to Cuomo’s recently published book about the pandemic, now increasingly derided as self-serving and deceitful, The Prince is a searing indictment of Cuomo’s handling of coronavirus and his time overall in the highest office of the state.

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Above the Law recounts 12 cases in which justice was denied because of QI. The stories are accompanied by infographics, timelines, and contextualizing background to create a concise and compelling indictment of an outrageously unjust legal principle that must be changed.

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Conceived in response to the shocking violence observed in humankind, the project identifies people who have wrongfully died at the hands of others—whether victims of war, hate crimes, or random brutality—and attempts to compensate for the cruelty and pain they faced in life and death.The Compensation Bureau explores the power of individual and collective action, from a writer hailed by The Washington Post as “a world-novelist of the first category.”

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Since leaving her American homeland in 2003 Belén Fernández had been an inveterate traveler. Ceaselessly wandering the world, the only constant in her itinerary was a conviction never to return to the country of her childhood. Then the COVID-19 lockdown happened and Fernandez found herself stranded in a small village on the Pacific coast of Mexico.

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Julian Assange In His Own Words provides a highly accessible survey of Assange’s philosophy and politics, conveying his views on how governments, corporations, the military, and the press function. As well as addressing the significance of the vast trove of leaked documents published by WikiLeaks, Assange draws on a polymathic intelligence to range freely over quantum physics, Greek mythology, macroeconomics, modern literature, and empires old and new.

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Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that ushered in the 21st century. They have become a bulwark of mainstream culture, cultural commodity, status, butt of all jokes and ready-made meme.

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The Center Did Not Hold weighs the progressive—and not so progressive—contributions of the Obama-Biden White House across more than a hundred issues involving international relations, domestic cultural and economic matters, and social justice.

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Foreshadowing a subsequent exodus, Luke O’Neil and his wife moved from the city to the suburbs just prior to the lockdown. Isolated not only by a virus but also by the alienation of a neighborhood where social distancing meant more than just geographical separation, O’Neil faced trials on numerous fronts.

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In a career that spanned five decades up to his death in 2016, Michael Ratner was involved in a wide range of high-profile cases. From working with William Kunstler in pursuing justice after the notorious prison massacre at Attica, to representing the revolutionary governments in Cuba and Nicaragua and prisoners interned at Guantanamo Bay in the wake of 9/11, through to being Julian Assange’s’ principal US lawyer, Ratner never shied away from taking on difficult, controversial cases.

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Following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and with the presidential election weeks away, Donald Trump had the opportunity to place a new justice on the Supreme Court. Attempting to stabilize his eroding support among white evangelicals, he handed over the selection of the nominee to a small group of evangelical leaders and in doing so, breached the religious test clause of the Constitution. More

In this exhilarating sequel to his acclaimed Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World, Žižek delves into some of the more surprising dimensions of lockdowns, quarantines, and social distancing—and the increasingly unruly opposition to them by “response fatigued” publics around the planet. More

This book is part of the Courage Foundation’s #WeAreMillions, an arts project demonstrating the global support for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange as he fights extradition to the United States. #WeAreMillions features striking black and white images of supporters holding signs that express simply and clearly why they are standing up for Julian Assange. The supporters are young and old, well-known and anonymous, and from all around the world. More

Maud Gonne, the legendary woman known as the Irish Joan of Arc, left her mark on everyone she met. She famously won the devotion of one of the greatest poets of the age, William Butler Yeats. Born into tremendous privilege, she allied herself with rebels and the downtrodden and openly defied what was at the time the world’s most powerful empire. More

The gap between what we know and what we do has haunted the field of moral philosophy since antiquity, and is at the center of today’s environmental crisis. Put simply: if we know that we are destroying the planet, our habitat, why do we continue to do it? The ten dialogues collected here investigate this question, and propose how we might salvage the planet and save our own lives. More

Everything Must Change! brings together prominent commentators from around the world to present a rich and nuanced weighing of progressive possibilities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. More

Nathan J Robinson has emerged in recent years as one of the most eloquent and engaging voices in a new cohort of young left-wing journalists who are transforming the American media landscape. Here he sets his unsparing gaze and biting wit on the greatest grotesquery in a competitive field let loose on a hapless public by an American political system lurching out of the control of all but the super-rich: Donald J. Trump. More

Tiyo Attallah Salah-El died in 2018 on “Slow Death Row” while serving a life sentence in a Pennsylvania prison. He was a man with a dizzying array of talents and vocations: author, scholar, teacher, musician, and activist: he was the founder of the Coalition for the Abolition of Prisons. He was also, as is apparent from the letters that make up this book, an extraordinarily eloquent correspondent. More

Drawing on rich traditions of radical social thought, Roediger disavows the thinly sourced idea that the United States was, for much of its history, a “middle class” nation and the still more indefensible position that it is one now. The increasing immiseration of large swathes of middle-income America, only accelerated by the current pandemic, nails a fallacy that is a major obstacle to progressive change. More

In this substantially expanded edition of his earlier book, The Monster at Our Door, the renowned activist and author Mike Davis looks at the COVID-19 pandemic now sweeping the world. More

As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Žižek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes, and speculate on the profundity of its consequences, all in a manner that will have you sweating profusely and gasping for breath? More

People’s Power provides a persuasive critique of a market-led transition to renewable energy. It surveys the early development of the electric grid in the United States, telling the story of battles for public control over power during the Great Depression. More

Bernie Sanders’ tilt at the US presidency has come under fire from an establishment that derides his social democratic policies as alien to the American way. But, as Ted Hamm reveals in this engaging and concise history, the sort of socialism Bernie advocates was commonplace in the Brooklyn where he grew up in the 1940s and 50s. More

It’s tough being an author these days, and it’s getting harder. A recent Authors Guild survey showed that the median income for all published authors in 2017, based solely on book-related activities, was just over $3,000, down more than 20% from eight years previously. Roughly 25% of authors earned nothing at all. Price cutting by retailers, notably Amazon, has forced publishers to pay their writers less. A stagnant economy, with only the rich seeing significant income increases, has hit writers along with everyone else. More

In this successor to his bestselling The Rise of Islamic State, which was translated into 16 languages, and the widely-acclaimed The Age of Jihad, prize-winning foreign correspondent Patrick Cockburn provides a clear-sighted and closely-observed account of the Middle East wars conducted by Donald Trump during the first term of his presidency. More

Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. More

An Inheritance for Our Times is a reader that includes original essays in the form of both personal accounts and intellectual arguments from activists and theorists advocating a democratic socialist outlook. More

Lucid Dreaming is an unprecedented global collection of discussions with documentary and experimental filmmakers, giving film and video its rightful place alongside the written word as an essential medium for conveying the most urgent concerns in contemporary arts and politics. More

Surf, Sweat and Tears takes us into the world of global surfing, revealing a dark side beneath the dazzling sun and cream-crested waves. Here is surf noir at its most compelling, a dystopian tale of one man’s obsessions, wiped out in a grizzly true crime. More

This finely-honed indictment by a writer widely acknowledged for his forensic skills is directed at Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. It sets out how she defiled her office by refusing to investigate credible allegations of Israeli criminality. More

Set in the last years of the 16th century, Cautivos is a meditation on writing, writers, and creativity. More than that, this short novel is about confinement, both of the mind and of the body, and therefore also about liberation. More

Fifteen conversations between a celebrated writer and a philosopher/robotics engineer that delve into basic questions surrounding our existence, covering topics such as “Where Are Words?”, “The Reality of Dreams,” “The Object of Consciousness,” and “Does Information Smell?” More

Governments and corporations now have the tools to track and control us as never before. In this whistleblowing how-to, we are provided with tools and techniques to fight back and hold organizations, agencies, and corporations accountable for unethical behavior. More

300 years after it was first published, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe remains hugely influential and hotly debated. Since its initial release in 1719, discussions have surrounded the novel’s depiction of individual solitude and work, colonial and racial relations, and mankind’s relationship with the rest of the animal world. More

The charges Assange faces are a major threat to press freedom. A wide range of distinguished contributors, many of them in original pieces, here set out the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, the importance of their work, and the dangers for us all in the persecution they face. In Defense of Julian Assange is a vivid, vital intervention into one of the most important political issues of our day. More

Welcome to Hell World is an unexpurgated selection of Luke O’Neil’s finest rants, near-poetic rhapsodies, and investigatory journalism. Racism, sexism, immigration, unemployment, Marcus Aurelius, opioid addiction, Iraq: all are processed through the O’Neil grinder. More

Thoughts and Prayers is a beautiful and startling volume of poetry about our political existence. With both humor and luminosity, it gets at the personal and collective emotional experience of American public life. More

Under the Presidency of Donald Trump, the existence of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has become a highly controversial issue. With widespread separation of families and legion abuses in privately owned detention centers, all fueled by openly racist pronouncements from the White House, increasing numbers are now demanding the abolition of the agency. More

CBD has insinuated itself into every aspect of our lives, from body oil to pet food. The cannabis derivative cannabidiol is an omnipresent cure-all that has gone from being “voguish” to “a mainstream panacea,” as The New York Times recently noted. And it’s a particular favorite of the crowd endemic to Brooklyn, the Bay Area and other similar urban environs. More

In October 2018 Brazilians elected Jair Bolsonaro as their new President. A former army officer who served under the military dictatorship, Bolsonaro has spent his political career campaigning against democracy and human rights. Sometimes described as a Tropical Trump, this greatly under-estimates the threat that he poses to Brazil´s still young and fragile democratic institutions. More

This short, intense book exposes life inside the largest, most violent gang in the world, Mara Salvatrucha 13, more commonly known as MS-13. Right in the heart of El Salvador’s violent capital San Salvador, anthropologist Juan José Martínez d´Aubuisson observes firsthand an escalating cycle of violence between MS-13 and its sworn enemies from Barrio 18 as it becomes a war fought on a professional scale with grenades and machine guns. More

In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider’s guide to the variety of ways today’s mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part confessional, it reveals that what most people think of as “the news” is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business. More

Che Guevara left Argentina at 22. At 21, Belén Fernández left the U.S. and didn’t look back. Alone, far off the beaten path in places like Syria and Tajikstan, she reflects on what it means to be an American in a largely American-made mess of a world. More

Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour stands on the brink of power, promising a fundamental re-ordering of British politics. But what, in practice, will this entail? How can a radical government stand up to an establishment that is hostile to any significant redistribution of wealth and power? People Get Ready! dives into the nitty gritty of what’s needed to bring about transformative change.More

There is a current revival of Black Consciousness, as political and student movements around the world – as well as academics and campaigners working in decolonization – reconfigure the continued struggle for socio-economic revolution.More

Lawyers regularly take the lead in polls as the most unpopular of all professions, ahead, even, of bankers and journalists. But the lawyers featured in this book are different. The stories they tell and the cases they fought are admirable and often inspiring. More

In this collection of essays, Jeffrey C. Isaac argues that the threat posed to liberal democracy by Trump warrants a strong democratic response, articulating a politics that bridges the gap between liberalism and leftism. More

The Balfour Declaration was to be critical in determining the history of the Middle East, from the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 to the present day. And yet, despite its importance, its true origins remain obscure. More

Fred W. McDarrah was the ultimate chronicler of New York’s downtown scene in the 1960s and 70s, and therefore of a signal moment in gay culture when he captured the community around the Stonewall uprising fifty years ago. More

In these short vignettes, Buddhist teacher Cuong Lu shares his insight into the prisoner’s mindset, something with implications for us all, whether or not we are in a conventional jail. More

Wolfgang Kaleck, best known as Edward Snowden’s lawyer, is a human rights activist extraordinaire. For more than two decades, he has travelled the world to fight alongside those suffering injustice at the hands of powerful players. More

Based on in-depth interviews with the people involved, this is the story of how a few dedicated voters took up the issue of disenfranchisement and won—and how activists around the country can do the same. More

One of the great populist leaders of the left, Lula—together with Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn and Andrés Manuel López Obrador—reignited a worldwide movement of progressives. Now he sits in prison, convicted of “passive corruption.” More

In this energetic, focused book, a group of five accomplished writers—Eve Ensler, Danish Husain, Burhan Sönmez, Lara Vapnyar, and Ninotchka Rosca—confronts five would-be dictators. More

First published in 1971 in Chile, where the entire third printing was dumped into the ocean by the Chilean Navy and bonfires were held to destroy earlier editions, How to Read Donald Duck reveals the capitalist ideology at work in our most beloved cartoons. More

In often dreamlike peregrinations around his home towns of Liverpool, London and New York Andy Merrifield reflects on what cities mean to us and how they shape the way we think. More

In a breathless cascade of poetry and prose, celebrated performance artist Karen Finley here lays bare the psychosexual obsessions that have burst to the surface of today’s American politics. More

Money and Class in America is a caustic, and often hilarious, portrait of a segment of the American population who have become only further removed—both in terms of wealth and social awareness—from everyone else. More

Creating Chaos explores the covert use of political warfare from the Cold War to the 21st Century. This is the dark side of statecraft, involving hacks, cell phones, and computers—and encompassing most of the developed world. More

When white nationalists and their supporters clashed with counter-demonstrators in the college town of Charlottesville over the removal of a Confederate statue, resulting in the death of one anti-racist activist and the wounding of thirty-five more, a signal moment in American history was reached. More

Metaphysical Graffiti is a provocative, inflammatory, hilarious, but ultimately serious book about not only the essential questions of rock, but also the deeper, metaphysical roots of those questions. More

In these pages Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the fiery progressive favored in Mexico’s 2018 presidential elections, presents a no-holds-barred condemnation of corruption in his own country and a sharp critique of U.S. influence in Mexican politics, especially under Trump. More

This rich selection of writing by the late Mike Marqusee captures the kaleidoscopic mind of a polymath who delighted in deploying one sphere of knowledge to provide exhilarating insight into others. More

Amidst the growing sense that Palestinians’ long struggle for self-determination has reached an impasse, Moment of Truth takes stock and weighs paths forward. More

In June 2017 an earthquake shook the very foundations of British politics. With Labour widely predicted to suffer a crushing defeat in the general election, Jeremy Corbyn instead achieved a stunning upset—a hung parliament, the humiliation of Theresa May’s government, and more than 40% of the vote. More

Yash Tandon shows how the WTO is camouflaged in a rhetoric that hides its primary function as the servant of global business and that, for many people, free trade not only hinders development—it visits violence and impoverishment on their lives. More

In the first general-audience book on the subject, legendary activist Medea Benjamin elucidates the mystery behind the U.S.’s complex entanglement with Iran. More

London today is embattled as rarely before in peacetime. On one side the city has flourished. On the other, poverty remains endemic. More

Weaving together the existing literature with new insights, The Wrong Story lays bare the flawed ways the media present the Palestine–Israel issue. More

While the rants of the President seem inescapable, and we know his opinion on all things, we’ve yet to hear from someone who was at the heart of one of his signature outrages—Trump University, the infamous and elaborate scheme to con hundreds of earnest citizens out of their hard-earned dollars. Until now. More

Representing the diversity of contemporary womanhood and bolstering the fight against racism, sexism, and violence, Women of Resistance unites new writers, performers, and activists with established poets to take a feminist stance against the new authority. More

Dream or Nightmare is a book of left wing strategy like no other: It proposes that, to compete with the right, progressives cannot depend on reason and hard fact. They must also deploy drama in the battle of ideas. More

For close to 500 years, Havana has been a cultural crossroads, a meeting point for people from the Americas, Europe, and Africa. Here, in a revised and updated edition of a classic history co-written by a Cuban and an American, is the definitive chronicle of the “Rome of the Caribbean.” More

Drawing on Einstein’s theories of relativity, evidence about dreams and hallucination, and the geometry of light in perception, Riccardo Manzotti argues that consciousness is not a “movie in the head”: it is the actual world we move in. More

This lively anthology explores the role played by Labour’s manifesto during the extraordinary British election of June 2017, in which the party, under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, closed a twenty point opinion poll deficit to come within a whisker of winning. More

Brutality, corruption, infrastructure collapse, daily threats of war: what’s next? 45 speculative fiction writers share their visions of what’s to come. More

This dazzling eyewitness account of the Russian revolution takes readers into the extraordinary events that occurred in St. Petersburg during fall 1917. More

Why are whistleblowing and digital dissidence presented by the media as so heavily male dominated? Three activists and digital rights advocates discuss. More

Combining elements of memoir, political theory, satire, and literary criticism, literary legend Ariel Dorfman’s latest book is an emotionally raw yet measured assessment of the United States after the election of Donald Trump. More

The Digital Critic brings together a diverse group of perspectives—early-adopters, Internet skeptics, bloggers, novelists, editors, and others—to address the future of literature and scholarship in a world of Facebook likes, Twitter wars, and Amazon book reviews. More

In What’s Yours Is Mine, Tom Slee argues that the new wave of companies known as the sharing economy, including tech giants Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, and Uber, is funded and steered by very old-school venture capitalists. Now updated and revised throughout, with a new foreword by the author. More

The authors of The Wellness Syndrome dive inside the burgeoning self-optimization movement, which seeks to transcend the limits placed on us by being merely human—whether the feebleness of our bodies or our mental incapacities. More

Iraqi Kurdistan-based journalist Cathy Otten here reports the calamity of the Yezidi women, enslaved after ISIS’s besiegement of Sinjar Mountain in 2014—and the continuing fallout from the disaster. More

The focus group has become an increasingly vital part of the way companies and politicians sell their products and policies. In a lively, sweeping history, Featherstone raises profound questions about democracy, desire and the innermost workings of consumer society. More

The follow-up to the bestselling Beautiful Trouble, Beautiful Rising showcases some of the most innovative tactics used in struggles against autocracy and austerity across the Global South.
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From Appalachia to the Rust Belt and down to rural Texas, the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest stretches across gaping chasms. Leading writers, including Roxane Gay, Lawrence Joseph, Joyce Carol Oates and Edwidge Danticat reflect. More

The first English-language anthology of Tibetan fiction, Old Demons, New Deities brings together the best writers from both Tibet and the diaspora, writing in Tibetan, English and Chinese. More

Swords in the Hands of Children is the true story of an intellectually adventurous gay man immersed in the macho, misogynistic and confrontational environment of the Weather Underground. More

Marshall McLuhan was the visionary theorist best known for coining the phrase “the medium is the message.” Now, his media scholar son Eric has recovered all the “lost” tetrads that he and his father developed, and accompanies them here with accessible explanations of how they function. More

Boycott and divestment are essential tools for activists around the globe. This is the essential reader for today’s creative leaders and cultural practitioners, including original contributions by artists, scholars, activists, critics, curators and writers. More

Eli Valley’s comic strips are intricate fever dreams employing noir, horror, slapstick and science fiction to expose the outlandish hypocrisies at play in the American/Israeli relationship. More

Some patterns are consistent: there’s racist Trump, sexist Trump, bankrupt Trump, lying Trump, paranoid Trump, clueless Trump, conman Trump, bullying Trump, and more. Here, in one lovingly researched and slim volume, is Trump stripped bare: the truth behind the glitz. Guaranteed no “fake facts”, no “alternative truths”: just sickening reality! More

Terry Heaton worked alongside televangelist Pat Robertson at The 700 Club and became its executive producer. This is the inside story of how, using deliberate and strategic social engineering, The 700 Club moved Christians steadily into the Republican Party—and moved the party itself to the right. More

What will our new world look like in the face of climate change? In Welcome to the Greenhouse, award-winning editor Gordon Van Gelder has brought together sixteen speculative stories by some of the most imaginative writers of our time. More

In this stunning book, Bartos’ exquisite photographs of Marker’s studio appear alongside a moving reminiscence of his friend by film theorist Colin MacCabe. More

This darkly satirical coloring book presents an unusual invitation: get out your crayons and paintbrushes and add color to biting images featuring America’s preferred machinery of war: the drone. More

Artist and animal rights advocate Sue Coe unleashes an outraged cry for action that, with extraordinary images and few words, takes its rightful place alongside the other great manifestoes of history. More

How I Lost By Hillary Clinton is a riveting, unsparing picture of the disastrous campaign that delivered America to President Trump, and a stark warning of a mistake that must not be repeated. More

How many of Piketty’s groundshaking concepts have gone unappreciated, all for want of intellectual stamina? Written in clear and accessible prose by an experienced economist and teacher, in this handy and slim volume, Jesper Roine explains all things Piketty. More

One day in the fall of 2013, the unimaginable scale of the refugee crisis became clear to the only optician on the island of Lampedusa, an ordinary man in his fifties, and it changed him forever: as he was out boating with some friends, he encountered hundreds of men, women and children drowning in the aftermath of a shipwreck. More

This book argues for a new kind of online economy: platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives with the promise of 21st-century technologies. It is a call for a new kind of online economy, one free from the economics of monopoly, exploitation, and surveillance. More

Folding the Red into the Black is a book-length nonfiction essay by one of America’s bestselling novelists, Walter Mosley; an alternative political manifesto in which he proposes to throw off “bureaucratic” demands in order “to praise and raise humanity to its full promise.” More

With extremism spreading across the globe, a reduced U.S. need for Saudi oil, and a thawing of U.S. relations with Iran, the time is right for a re-evaluation of our close ties with the Saudi regime. More

When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. Finks is a tale of two CIAs, and how they blurred the line between propaganda and literature. More

In this richly packed portmanteau of traveler’s tales, we accompany Tom Lutz as he drives beyond the blacktop in Morocco, to the Saharan dunes on the Algerian border, and east of Ankara into the Hittite ruins of Boğazkale. More

Set in the tumultuous aftermath of the Iranian revolution in 1979, Remembering Akbar weaves together the stories of a group of characters who share a crowded death row cell in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. More

Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset began work on his autobiography a decade before his death in 2012. Now, at last, in his own words, we have a portrait of the man who reshaped how we think about language, literature—and sex. This is Barney Rosset, uncensored. More

Black Ops Advertising dissects this rapid rise of “sponsored content,” a strategy whereby advertisers have become publishers and publishers create advertising—all under the guise of unbiased information. More

Below the ancient streets of Istanbul, four prisoners await their turn at the hands of their wardens. When they are not subject to unimaginable violence, the condemned tell one another stories about the city, shaded with love and humor, to pass the time. Istanbul Istanbul is a novel about creation, compassion, and the ultimate triumph of the imagination. More

Presented in compelling diary form, this substantial volume draws together a careful selection of Cockburn’s writings from the frontlines of the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, interspersed with thoughtful analyses and contemporary, original reflection. More

Now supplemented with a epilogue drawing on newly available, once-secret documents that detail the extent of America’s involvement in assassinations, Weakness and Deceit is a classic, riveting and ultimately tragic account of American foreign policy in El Salvador in the 1980s—gone terribly wrong. More

Hillary Clinton is running for the presidency with a message of hope and change. But, as Doug Henwood makes clear in this concise, devastating indictment, little trust can be placed in her campaign promises. More

Across the Middle East, Christian communities find themselves the victims of widening repression: massacres, expulsions, and brutally enforced restrictions on the right to worship have all become commonplace. More

From its beginning the World Wide Web seemed both inherently singular and global. Today, Scott Malcomson contends in Splinternet, the Internet is cracking apart into discrete groups no longer willing, or able, to connect. More

Can we build a robot that trips on acid? Is the human brain based on computation? In Beyond Zero and One, Andrew Smart challenges fundamental assumptions underlying artificial intelligence and convincingly makes the case that the answer lies beyond the computational. More

Extraordinary Rendition brings together the work of sixty-five prominent writers to examine America’s culpability in the denial of human rights and dignity to Palestinians in Israel/Palestine and beyond. More

In The Strangest, Michael Seidlinger tackles one of the literary classics of the 20th century literature and reimagines it for the 21st: and in Albert Camus’ anti-hero Meursault, at once apathetic and violent, unable to connect with his fellow humans, Seidlinger exhumes a perfect metaphor for the Internet Generation. More

Each year in the U.S., a quarter of a million deaths are attributable to medical error. Killer Care lays out the very real dangers we face whenever we enter a hospital: rampant carelessness, overwork, ignorance, and hospitals trying to get the most out of their caregivers and the most money out of their patients. More

Collected in The Gulf is the work of the Gulf Labor Coalition, a group of writers and artists who have been pressuring Saadiyat Island’s Western cultural brands—including the Louvre, the Guggenheim, the British Museum and New York University—to ensure worker protections. More

A collaboration between an award-winning novelist and a leading environmental philosopher, Love in the Anthropocene taps into our corrupted environment to investigate a future bereft of natural environments. More

In the last few years, Clint Eastwood has become the point man for the American conservative movement, known for a lecture to an empty chair and his runaway hit “American Sniper.” Patrick McGilligan’s book is, for fans as well as non-fans, the ultimate life story of this corroded pillar of Hollywood. More

A collection of stories that range from the very short to the merely short, the forty-four tales in True False evoke extraordinary scenes in an understated manner that’s marked Klee one of today’s most intriguing writers. More

In Shell-Shocked, journalist and Gaza resident Mohammed Omer provides a first-hand account of life on-the-ground during Israel’s assault. He maintains a cool detachment, determined to create a precise record of what is occurring in front of him—but between the lines his outrage boils. More

Charles Glass contends Western governments’ miscalculations in the Syrian civil war, particularly regarding the departure of Bashar al-Assad, have contributed greatly to the disaster we witness today. Here he provides an overview of the conflict, situating it clearly in the overall crisis of the region. More

Why aren’t the great, qualified women already in tech being hired or promoted? Should women seek to join an institution that is actively hostile to them? Edited by tech veteran Elissa Shevinsky, Lean Out sees a possible way forward that uses tech and creative disengagement to jettison 20th century corporate culture. More

In Watchlist, some of today’s most prominent and promising fiction writers from around the globe respond to, reflect on, and mine for inspiration the surveillance culture in which we live. More

Who started the “War Against Drugs,” and why? What are its consequences in real terms, not mere statistics? Two legendary prize-winning writers, one Mexican and the other American, confront the issue head-on. More

Edited and with an introduction by Paper editor Kim Hastreiter, @heaven reproduces the extraordinary exchange that took place on the early online community The WELL in the months leading up to the death of a Stanford futurist named Tom Mandel. More

Chameleo is a true account of a heroin addict who sheltered a U.S. Navy sailor who’d stolen night vision goggles and a few top secret files from a nearby Marine base. He found himself arrested and subsequently believed himself under intense government scrutiny — and, he suspected, the subject of bizarre electro-optical experimentation called “cloaking.” More

In this paradigm-shifting new book, Norman G. Finkelstein examines Israel’s major assaults on Gaza since 2008 and reveals the attacks have been designed to sabotage the possibility of a compromise peace with the Palestinians, even on terms that are favorable to it. More

Glamour and books don’t often converge, but they did at Rizzoli, one of New York City’s greatest bookstores: a memoir by a writer (and Rizzoli manager) who lived the unchecked, wild life of a young gay man in pre-AIDS, post-Stonewall 1970s New York. More

It Runs in the Family is a book about how parents can create lasting and meaningful bulwarks between their kids and the violence endemic in our culture. More

The stories in Tales of Two Cities mix fiction and reportage to convey the indignities and heartbreak, the callousness and solidarities, of living side-by-side with people who have a stupefyingly different income. More

Even if you think you don’t know him, you know him. Few in the Hollywood orbit have had greater influence; few have experienced more humiliating failure in their lifetime. Thanks in part to the biopic directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp and bearing his name, Ed Wood has become an icon of Americana. More

In this explosive new book, renowned Middle East commentator Patrick Cockburn sets out how, by exploiting the repeated missteps of the West, jihadist organizations have come to create a caliphate that stretches from the Sunni heartlands in the north and west of Iraq through a broad swath of northeast Syria. More

Julian Assange and the chairman of Google Eric Schmidt debate the political problems faced by society, and the technological solutions engendered by the global network—and outline radically opposing perspectives. More

Simon Critchley melds personal narratives of how David Bowie lit up a dull teenage life in England’s suburbs with philosophical forays into the way authenticity and identity are turned inside out in the artist’s work. More

In his usual pithy, to-the-point style, Micah L. Sifry explores why data-driven politics and our digital overlords have failed or misled us, and how they can be made to serve us instead, in a real balance between citizens and state, independent of corporations. More

Sex and knife-fights, stutterers and addicts, losers and lost literary classics: welcome to a raw and genuine island universe closed to casual visitors. More

Like his landmark debunking of Joan Peters’s From Time Immemorial, Finkelstein’s clinical dissection of My Promised Land will be welcomed by those who yearn for a resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict based on justice. More

After being diagnosed with multiple myeloma, writer and political activist Mike Marqusee came to realize that writing about his cancer provided a precious continuity with his life before contracting the disease. More

Using his captivating illustrations and no more than a handful of words, decrypts some of the most intriguing books of our day for readers of The Rumpus: now seventy-five of his favorites are collected in one volume. More

Technocreep is the definitive dissection of privacy-eroding and life-invading technologies, coming at you from governments, corporations, and the person next door. More

In this forceful, eye-opening survey, Andrew Ross contends that we are in the cruel grip of a creditocracy – where the finance industry commandeers our elected governments and where the citizenry have to take out loans to meet their basic needs. More

Gay Propaganda offers an intimate window into the hardships faced by Russians on the receiving end of state-sanctioned homophobia. Here are tales of men and women in long-term committed relationships as well as those still looking for love; of those living in Russia or joining an exodus that is rapidly becoming a flood. More

In Hitler’s Girls, Emma Tennant and Hilary Bailey’s wry, atmospheric prose conjures a whirlwind adventure full of international intrigue, subtle humor, and terrifying, timely, political speculation. More

Drawing in real time from inside the courtroom, artist and WikiLeaks activist Clark Stoeckley captures the extraordinary drama of The United States vs. Pvt. Chelsea Manning, one of the most secretive trials in American history. More

John the Posthumous exists in between fiction and poetry, elegy and history: a kind of novella in objects, it is an anatomy of marriage and adultery, an interlocking set of fictional histories, and the staccato telling of a murder, perhaps two murders. Its themes are familiar — violence, betrayal, failure — its depiction of these utterly original and hauntingly beautiful. More

In Acorn, renowned artist and political activist Yoko Ono offers intriguing, enchanting exercises to open our eyes on better ways of relating to ourselves, each other, and the planet we co-habit. Throughout the book are drawings by Yoko, many never before seen. More

The collector’s edition of Acorn is bound in cloth, boxed, and signed by the author in a limited edition of 285 copies. More

When Salma was 13 years old her family shut her away, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. She began covertly composing poems on scraps of paper and sneaking them out of the house. More

A survivor of corporate-mandated “Six Sigma” training to improve efficiency, Smart has channeled his “loathing” of the time-management industry into a witty, informative and wide-ranging book that draws on the most recent research into brain power. Use it to explain to bosses, family, and friends why you need to relax – right now. More

In this concise and sparkling account of the life and work of America’s most storied writer, National Book Award runner-up Clancy Sigal presents a passionate and persuasive case for the relevance of Ernest Hemingway to readers today. More

Sophisticated enough for veteran activists, accessible enough for newbies, this compact pocket edition of the bestselling Beautiful Trouble showcases the synergies between artistic imagination and shrewd political strategy in a generously illustrated volume can easily be slipped into your pocket as you head out to the streets. More

Hacking Politics is a firsthand account of how a ragtag band of activists and technologists overcame a $90 million lobbying machine to defeat the most serious threat to Internet freedom in memory. More

The complete and as-yet-untold story of the making and unmaking of a gangster state in Cuba, Gangsterismo establishes for the first time the integral, extensive role of mobsters in the Cuban exile movement.More

Freeloading is a book that takes a critical look at a near-pervasive phenomenon that involves almost everyone who taps a keyboard: beyond that, it’s a reminder of the truism that for every action there are consequences. What happens when we pirate a favorite work of art? And what, if anything, should be done about it? More

In this series of interviews with writer and radio host Jon Wiener, Vidal grapples with matters evidently close to his heart: the history of the American Empire, the rise of the National Security State, and his own life in politics, both as a commentator and candidate. More

Julian Assange brings together a small group of cutting-edge thinkers and activists from the front line of the battle for cyber-space to discuss whether electronic communications will emancipate or enslave us. More

“… Thornton’s Dr. Bantam is pure Americana, cinematic and idly mean. It’s lush and trashy. I guess it’s the most graphic-novelly feeling book about loss I can think of. It’s all punk heart, messily thudding.” —Eileen Myles More

In Mad Science, Joseph Mangano strips away the near-smothering layers of distortions and outright lies that permeate the massive propaganda campaigns on behalf of nuclear energy. More

It is often the smallest details of daily life that tell us the most. And so it is under occupation in Palestine, in this account by a celebrated Palestinian writer of daily life in the Occupied West Bank. More

Louisa May Alcott, author of the classic Little Women, consort of Emerson, Thoreau and Hawthorne, beloved icon of professors of American 19th-century literature and perhaps less loved by their legions of students, had a lusty side that was less academic, and more . . . transcendental than any of us knew. More

On the eve of the opening of the 30th Olympiad in London this summer, sports activist and commentator Mark Perryman presents a sharply critical take on the way the Games have been organized and an imaginative blueprint for how they could be improved. More

Beautiful Trouble brings together ten grassroots groups and dozens of seasoned artists and activists from around the world to distill their best practices into a toolbox for creative action. More

A book that takes the pulse of the victims of today’s financial crisis and delivers a prognosis combining an extraordinary mix of pathos, anger, solidarity and humor. More

Traditionally, American Jews have been broadly liberal in their political outlook. Over the past half century, however, attitudes on one topic have stood in sharp contrast to this group’s generally progressive stance: support for Israel. More

Norman Finkelstein, who, drawing on extensive readings of Gandhi’s copious oeuvre and intensive reflection on the way that progress might be made in the seemingly intractable impasse of the Middle East, here sets out in clear and concise language the basic principles of Gandhi’s approach. More

Richly illustrated with full-color paintings and drawings throughout, Cruel conveys the terrible beauty, and intense suffering, of both the animals so sacrificed and the workers involved in their violent destruction. More

Richly illustrated in a paper-bound case with silver foil stamping, this limited edition of 75 features full-color paintings and drawings throughout, maroon endpapers signed in silver by the author and color illustrations throughout. More

“In this remarkably cogent and carefully researched book, Medea Benjamin makes it clear that drones are not just another high-tech military trinket. Drone Warfare sketches out the nightmare possibilities posed by this insane proliferation.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed More

Who is Private Chelsea Manning? Why did she allegedly commit the largest security breach in American history—and why was it so easy? Around the world, the eloquent alleged act of one young woman obliges citizens to ask themselves if they have the right to know what their government is doing. More

Debut novelist Miles Klee takes a landscape of drugs, decay, loss and, perhaps, hope, and manages to make the ensemble wryly funny. More

A washed-up TV reporter stumbles onto a corruption scandal in Western China. Pursued through the desert by a psychotic Communist spin-doctor and a world-weary cop, he discovers the real China. More

“An essential and galvanizing on-the-ground account of how oxygen suddenly and miraculously flooded back into the American brain.” —Jonathan Lethem More

“A chilling account of the use and justification of torture by the Bush Administration, made the more powerful by its dispassionate, forensic language.” —Salman Rushdie More

“Wildly funny, desperately sad, brutal and kind, furious and patient, there was no other like Nathanael West.” —Dorothy Parker More

In compelling detail two leading U.S. civil rights attorneys recount the extraordinary life and deliberate killing of the world’s most storied revolutionary: Ernesto Che Guevara. More

“…Here’s what isn’t happening: an outpouring of political outrage forcing leaders around the globe to wean our world off the fossil fuels that cause this heating. In some sense, this anthology is an attempt to deal with that paradox.” —from the introduction, More

On April 1 2011, the international jurist Richard Goldstone effectively disowned the massive evidence assembled in the United Nations’ report carrying his name that Israel had committed multiple war crimes and possible crimes against humanity in Gaza during its 2008-09 invasion. More

The Israeli invasion of December 2008: in 22 days 1,400 Gazans were killed, several hundred on the first day alone. As Norman Finkelstein details, the profound injustice of the Israeli assault was widely recognized by bodies that it is impossible to brand as partial or extremist. More

“A tornado of a writer….a child of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Hunter S. Thompson.” —Margo Jefferson, The New York Times. Now in an updated and revised edition. More

“A report from the trenches where a wide array of small-d democracy and transparency activists are hard at work…using new tools and methods to open up previously closed and powerful institutions and make them more accountable.” —from the author’s introduction More

“Raja Shehadeh’s Palestinian Walks provides a rare historical insight into the tragic changes taking place in Palestine.” —President Jimmy Carter, More

“A lively and informed expose… At the Tea Party stands out as a must-read for anyone interested in the turbulent future of American politics.” —The Nation More

“[W]hat more can you ask of a novel, or a poet’s novel, or a poem, or a memoir, or whatever the hell this shimmering document is? Just read it.” —Alison Bechdel on Inferno. More