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.
More‘An excellent collection of wonderful poetry from wonderful people encouraging the working classes to embrace and enjoy culture. Poetry and music for the many!
—Robin Campbell, UB40
‘A beautiful collection of poetry which shows how inspirational and transformative the power of words can be.’
—Brian Reade
Welcome to OR BooksA radical, exciting response to Amazonian hegemony. —Dazed OR Books is a new type of publishing company. It embraces progressive change in politics, culture and the way we do business. More New Titles from OR BooksDELUGE
Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm
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. LEONOR
The Story of a Lost Childhood
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. THE FRAUD
Keir Starmer, Labour Together, and the Crisis of British Democracy
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. CONCRETE UTOPIA
Looking Back at the Future of Human Rights
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. THE OTHER ALMANAC
Calculated for the year 2024
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! CORPORATE COUP
Venezuela and the End of US Empire
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. DECOLONIZE DRAG
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. POETRY FOR THE MANY
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. MAD WORLD
War, Movies, Sex
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. TALE OF AHMED
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. OPEN HOUSE
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. I DARE SAY
A Gerald Horne Reader
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. DISPATCHES FROM THE DIASPORA
From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter
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. ALWAYS RED
Now in Paperback
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. DECOLONIZE MULTICULTURALISM
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.More WEAPONISING ANTI-SEMINTISM
How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn
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.More THE ACTIVIST ANGLER
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.More CHOMSKY AND ME
A Memoir
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
Fictions
A Creature Wanting Form is a bleakly funny work of fiction from a journalist widely celebrated for his wry, mordant take on life.More THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE LITIGATED
People Power and Legal Power in the 21st Century
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 DECOLONIZE SELF-CARE
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 WAR IN UKRAINE
Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict
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
An Almost True Account
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 EARLY DETECTION
Catching Cancer When It’s Curable
In an accessible yet fastidiously researched intervention Early Detection sets out the urgent necessity EXTINCTION
A Radical History (Expanded Edition)
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 Inside Siglo XXI
Locked Up Inside Mexico’s Largest Immigration Detention Center
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. Canopy of Titans
The Life and Times of the Great North American Temperate Rainforest
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. 11 Lives
Stories from Palestinian Exile
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. Cars and Jails
Freedom Dreams, Debt and Carcerality
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. Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
The Labour Party After Jeremy Corbyn
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. Power Concedes Nothing
How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections
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. Parrot Tales
Our Life with a Magical Parrot
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. The Work of Living
Working People Talk about their Lives and the Year the World Broke
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. Operation Mindfuck
QAnon and the Cult of Donald Trump
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. The Dead Center
Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History
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. Decolonize Museums
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. Beyond Fossil Law
Climate, Courts, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
Beyond Fossil Law: Climate, Courts, and the Fight 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. The Broken Boy
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. The Black Agenda
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. Heaven in Disorder
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. The Art of Activism
Your All-Purpose Guide to Make the Impossible Possible
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. Tesla
All My Dreams Are True
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. Between Catastrophe and Revolution
Essays in Honor of Mike Davis
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. Reluctant Reformers
Racism and Social Reform Movements in the United States
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. The Prince
Andrew Cuomo, Coronovirus, and the Fall of New York
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. Hate Inc. (2nd Edition)
Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
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. Above the Law
How “Qualified Immunity” Protects Violent Police
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. Compensation Bureau
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.” Checkpoint Zipolite
Quarantine in a Small Place
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. Julian Assange In His Own Words
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. Decolonize Hipsters
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. The Center Did Not Hold
How Obama and Biden Won the War Against Progressivism
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. Lockdown in Hell World
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. MOVING THE BAR
My Life As a Radical Lawyer
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. OBJECTION! 2
The People Vs. Amy Coney Barrett
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. In doing so, he breached the religious test clause of the Constitution. A chief authority on the religious test clause, and one whose interpretation of that clause requires a finding that Trump’s actions violated the Constitution, is none other than Amy Coney Barrett. PANDEMIC! 2
Chronicles of a Time Lost
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. WE ARE MILLIONS
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 THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT
A Life of Maud Gonne
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 REDISCOVERING EARTH
Ten Dialogues on the Future of Nature
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!
The World After Covid-19
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 THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING
An Almost True Account
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 AMERICAN MONSTROSITY
Donald Trump: How We Got Him • How We Stop Him
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 BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE STRATEGY CARD DECK
This box of more than 100 cards from the celebrated activist group Beautiful Trouble provides both invaluable information on the key strategies and tactics that have inspired centuries of people-powered political victories and a series of games you can play with fellow protestors. Use the cards to learn and teach organizing, free up creativity when planning grassroots actions, or just entertain your dinner party guests. More PEN PAL
Prison Letters from a Free Spirit on Slow Death Row
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 THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS
A Political History
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 THE MONSTER ENTERS
COVID-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism
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 PANDEMIC!
Covd-19 Shakes the World
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
Reclaiming the Energy Commons
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’S BROOKLYN
How Growing Up in the New Deal City Shaped Bernie Sanders’ Politics
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 THE DEEP END
The Literary Scene in the Great Depression and Today
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 WAR IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
The Fall of ISIS, the Betrayal of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran
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 TALES OF TWO PLANETS
Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World
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
Principles and Politics of Democratic Socialism
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
Conversations with 29 Filmmakers
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
The Epic Life and Mysterious Death of Edward George William Omar Deerhurst
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 I ACCUSE!
Herewith A Proof Beyond Reasonable Doubt That ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda Whitewashed Israel
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 CAUTIVOS
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 DIALOGUES ON CONSCIOUSNESS
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 A PUBLIC SERVICE
Whistleblowing, Disclosure and Anonymity
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 CRUSOE AND HIS CONSEQUENCES
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 IN DEFENSE OF JULIAN ASSANGE
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
Dispatches from the American Dystopia
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
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 ABOLISH ICE
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!
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 SPITE OF YOU
Bolsonaro and the New Brazilian Resistance
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. His notoriety comes from his repeated racist, sexist and homophobic statements and his defence of torture, extra-judicial executions and impunity for Brazil´s security forces. 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 A YEAR INSIDE MS-13
See, Hear, and Shut Up
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 capital San Salvador, anthropologist Juan José Martínez d´Aubuisson observes firsthand an escalating cycle of brutality 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 HATE INC.
Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
In this characteristically turbocharged new book, now in a new post-election edition, 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 EXILE
Rejecting America and Finding the World
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 PEOPLE GET READY!
Preparing for a Corbyn Government
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 THE BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS READER
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. Yet the roots of Black Consciousness and its relation to other movements such as Black Lives Matter have only begun to be explored. More LAWYERS FOR THE LEFT
In the Courts, In the Streets And on the Air
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 DREAM OR NIGHTMARE
Reimagining Politics in an Age of Fantasy
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 THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE BALFOUR DECLARATION
Contained on a single page, the Balfour Declaration was sent by Arthur Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, in November 1917. It read, in part, “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” More THE BUDDHA IN JAIL
Restoring Lives, Finding Hope and Freedom
This is a book of 52 vignettes—stories and teachings about Cuong Lu’s six years as a prison chaplain. Lu shares insights into the prisoner’s mindset, something with implications for us all, whether or not we are in a conventional jail. As a prison chaplain, Cuong discovered that when the men inside allowed themselves to feel their pain—including remorse from committing crimes—knowing and feeling the truth became a source of strength for them. And when the inmates felt listened to, understood, and not judged, it transformed their sense of who they are, and as a result changed their attitudes and their behavior.More PRIDE
Photographs After Stonewall
Fifty years ago this coming June, the Stonewall uprising occurred in Greenwich Village—an event that marked the coming-out of New York’s gay community and a refusal by gays to accept underground status that was as important in its way as the Montgomery bus boycott was to the civil rights movement. As a direct outcome of Stonewall, gay pride marches were held in 1970 in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York.More TRUTH WILL PREVAIL
Why I Was Condemned
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. After serving as president of Brazil from 2003 to 2011, and on the verge of starting his candidacy for the 2018 election (which he was favored to win), Lula was arrested and sentenced to 12 years in prison, convicted of “passive corruption.”More #AGAINST TRUMP
Notes from Year One
Few predicted the ascendancy of Donald Trump to the US presidency, a development with a huge impact on international relations, trade, environmental policy, and the very possibility of liberal democracy itself. Those of us committed to democratic values, truth, and human rights, feel compelled to resist. And yet the fight against Trump is hardly a united front.More LAW VERSUS POWER
Our Global Fight for Human Rights
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 VICTORY
How Pennsylvania Beat Gerrymandering, and How Other States Can Do the Same
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 TRUTH WILL PREVAIL
Why I Have Been Condemned
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 STRONGMEN
Putin • Erdoğan • Modi • Duterte • Trump
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 HOW TO READ DONALD DUCK
Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic
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 WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CITIES (AND LOVE)
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 GRABBING PUSSY
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
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
Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin
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 #CHARLOTTESVILLE
White Supremacy, Populism, and Resistance
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
Rock’s Most Mind-Bending Questions
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 A NEW HOPE FOR MEXICO
Saying No to Corruption, Violence, and Trump’s Wall
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 DEFINABLE TRACES IN THE ATMOSPHERE
Selected Writings
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 MOMENT OF TRUTH
Tackling Israel–Palestine’s Toughest Questions
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 THE CANDIDATE
Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power (2nd Edition)
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 TRADE IS WAR
The West’s War on the World (2nd Edition)
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 INSIDE IRAN
The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran
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 TALES OF TWO LONDONS
Stories From a Fractured City
London today is embattled as rarely before in peacetime. On one side the city has flourished. On the other, poverty remains endemic. More THE WRONG STORY
Palestine, Israel, and the Media
Weaving together the existing literature with new insights, The Wrong Story lays bare the flawed ways the media present the Palestine–Israel issue. More TRUMP U.
The Inside Story of Trump University
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 WOMEN OF RESISTANCE
Poems for a New Feminism
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 THE HISTORY OF HAVANA
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 THE SPREAD MIND
Why Consciousness and the World Are One
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 FOR THE MANY …
Preparing Labour for Power
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 WELCOME TO DYSTOPIA
45 Visions of What Lies Ahead
Brutality, corruption, infrastructure collapse, daily threats of war: what’s next? 45 speculative fiction writers share their visions of what’s to come. More TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD
100th Anniversary Edition
This dazzling eyewitness account of the Russian revolution takes readers into the extraordinary events that occurred in St. Petersburg during fall 1917. More WOMEN, WHISTLEBLOWING, WIKILEAKS
A Conversation
Why are whistleblowing and digital dissidence presented by the media as so heavily male dominated? Three activists and digital rights advocates discuss. More HOMELAND SECURITY ATE MY SPEECH
Messages from the End of the World
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 DIGITAL CRITIC
Literary Culture Online
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 WHAT’S YOURS IS MINE
Against the Sharing Economy
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 DESPERATELY SEEKING SELF-IMPROVEMENT
Inside the Optimization Movement
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 WITH ASH ON THEIR FACES
Yezidi Women and the Islamic State
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 DIVINING DESIRE
Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation
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 BEAUTIFUL RISING
Creative Resistance from the Global South
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. More TALES OF TWO AMERICAS
Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
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 OLD DEMONS, NEW DEITIES
Twenty-One Short Stories from Tibet
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
Reflections of an American Revolutionary
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 THE LOST TETRADS OF MARSHALL McLUHAN
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 THE EVERGREEN REVIEW
Volume 1 Numbers 1, 2, and 3
OR Books and Foxrock Books are pleased to offer carefully crafted facsimile paperback editions of the classic first three issues of the groundbreaking review. More ASSUMING BOYCOTT
Resistance, Agency and Cultural Production
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 DIASPORA BOY
Comics on Crisis in America and Israel
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 PRESIDENT TRUMP UNVEILED
Exposing the Bigoted Billionaire
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 THE GOSPEL OF SELF
How Jesus Joined the GOP
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 STUDIO
Remembering Chris Marker
In this stunning and original book, Adam Bartos’ exquisite photographs of Marker’s studio, a workspace both extraordinarily cluttered and highly organized, appear alongside a moving reminiscence of his friend by the film theorist and practitioner Colin MacCabe. More COLOR ME DRONE WARFARE!
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 THE ANIMALS’ VEGAN MANIFESTO
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
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 POCKET PIKETTY
A Handy Guide to Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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 THE CANDIDATE
Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power
In September of last year an earthquake shook British politics to its foundations. Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong and uncompromising socialist, was elected to head the Labour Party. Corbyn didn’t just win the leadership contest, he crushed his opponents, obtaining 60% of the vote. The establishment was aghast. More THE OPTICIAN OF LAMPEDUSA
Based on a True Story
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 OURS TO HACK AND TO OWN
The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet
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
Developing a Viable Untopia for Human Survival in the 21st Century
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 KINGDOM OF THE UNJUST
Behind the U.S.–Saudi Connection
Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin shines a light on one of the most sinister elements of American foreign policy: the strange alliance between between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. More FINKS
How the C.I.A. Tricked the World’s Best Writers
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 DRINKING MARE’S MILK ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD
Wandering the Globe from Azerbaijan to Zanzibar
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 REMEMBERING AKBAR
Inside the Iranian Revolution
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 ROSSET
My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship
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
Native Ads, Content Marketing and the Covert World of the Digital Sell
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 ISTANBUL ISTANBUL
A Novel
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 CHAOS AND CALIPHATE
Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East
Chaos and Caliphate draws together a selection of Cockburn’s writings from the frontlines of the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, interspersed with analyses and contemporary reflection. More WEAKNESS AND DECEIT
America and El Salvador’s Dirty War
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 MY TURN
Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency
In My Turn, Doug Henwood rigorously reviews Hillary Clinton’s record. He shows how her positions on key issues have always blown with the breeze of expediency, though generally around an axis of moralism and hawkishness. More FORSAKEN
The Persecution of Christians in Today’s Middle East
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 SPLINTERNET
How Geopolitics and Commerce Are Fragmenting the World Wide Web
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 WHAT’S YOURS IS MINE
Against the Sharing Economy
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. More BEYOND ZERO AND ONE
Machines, Psychedelics, and Consciousness
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
(American) Writers on Palestine
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 THE STRANGEST
A Novel
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 KILLER CARE
How Medical Error Became America’s Third Largest Cause of Death, and What Can Be Done About It
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 THE GULF
High Culture/Hard Labor
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 LANGUAGE OF WAR, LANGUAGE OF PEACE
Palestine, Israel and the Search for Justice
In Language of War, Language of Peace, award-winning author Raja Shehadeh explores the politics of language in the Israeli-Palestine conflict, reflecting on the walls created—legal and cultural—that confine Palestinians as much as physical borders. More LOVE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
An audacious collaboration between an award-winning novelist and a leading environmental philosopher, Love in the Anthropocene taps into one of the hottest topics of the day—our corrupted environment—to deliver five related stories that investigate a future bereft of natural environments. More CESS
A Spokening
In Cess, Gordon Lish’s latest work, he delivers a characteristic exhibition of his peculiar deformities of candor, obsession, and wit, via two extended “notes” to the reader, including a pages-long list of essential but perplexing words. More CLINT
The Life and Legend
In the last few years, Clint Eastwood has become the point man for the American conservative movement, known for a certain 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 TRUE FALSE
Stories
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 SHELL-SHOCKED
On the Ground Under Israel’s Gaza Assault
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 SYRIA BURNING
ISIS and the Death of the Arab Spring
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 the conflict, situating it clearly in the overall crisis of the region. More LEAN OUT
The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-Up Culture
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 TRADE IS WAR
The West’s War Against the World
In Trade Is War, 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 the vast majority of people, free trade not only hinders development — it visits relentless waves of violence and impoverishment on their lives. More A NARCO HISTORY
How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the “Mexican Drug War”
Peace in the “War Against Drugs” requires a radical rethinking of how America, and its neighbors, approach the illegal drug trade. A Narco History is an account of the economic disaster, mass migration of families fleeing violence, and chaos that has ensued as direct results of policy promulgated by the U.S. Government. More WATCHLIST
32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest
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 @heaven
The Online Death of a Cybernetic Futurist
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
A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security
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 Method and Madness
The hidden story of Israel’s assaults on Gaza
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 NIGHTS AT RIZZOLI
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
On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood
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 TALES OF TWO CITIES
The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York
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 BLOOD SPATTERS QUICKLY
The Collected Stories
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 WHEN GOOGLE MET WIKILEAKS
In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country residence in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest. THE JIHADIS RETURN
ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising
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 Bowie
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 HORN!
The Collected Reviews
Using his captivating illustrations and no more than a handful of words, Thomas 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
The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy
Technocreep is the definitive dissection of privacy-eroding and life-invading technologies, coming at you from governments, corporations, and the person next door. More CREDITOCRACY
And the Case for Debt Refusal
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
Russian Love Stories
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 THE BIG DISCONNECT
Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet)
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 THE UNITED STATES VS. PVT. CHELSEA MANNING
A Graphic Account from Inside the Courtroom
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
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 ACORN
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 ACORN
Collector’s Edition
The collector’s edition of Acorn is bound in cloth, boxed, and signed by the author in a limited edition of 285 copies. More SALMA
Filming a Poet in Her Village
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 AUTOPILOT
The Art & Science of Doing Nothing
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 HEMINGWAY LIVES!
Why Reading Ernest Hemingway Matters Today
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 BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE
Pocket Edition
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
How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet
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 GANGSTERISMO
The United States, Cuba and the Mafia, 1933 to 1966
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
How Our Insatiable Appetite for Free Content Starves Creativity
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 I TOLD YOU SO
Gore Vidal Talks Politics
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 CYPHERPUNKS
Freedom and the Future of the Internet
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 THE DREAM OF DOCTOR BANTAM
A Novel
“… 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 MAD SCIENCE
The Nuclear Power Experiment
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 OCCUPATION DIARIES
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 Fifty Shades of Louisa May
A Memoir of Transcendental Sex
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 WHY THE OLYMPICS AREN’T GOOD FOR US, AND HOW THEY CAN BE
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
A Toolbox for Revolution
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 Not Working
People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today’s Changing Economy
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 KNOWING TOO MUCH
Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel Is Coming to an End
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 WHAT GHANDI SAYS
About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage
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 CRUEL
Bearing Witness to Animal Exploitation
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 CRUEL
Limited Edition
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 DRONE WARFARE
Killing by Remote Control
“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 THE PASSION OF BRADLEY MANNING
The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in U.S. History
“The mistreatment, trial, and fate of Private Bradley Manning will undoubtedly read like an obituary on the Obama years… Essayist and lawyer Chase Madar turned his sharp eye on it early. His will be the single must-read book on the case.” —Tom Engelhardt More IVYLAND
A Novel
Debut novelist Miles Klee takes a landscape of drugs, decay, loss and, perhaps, hope, and manages to make the ensemble wryly funny. More RARE EARTH
A Novel
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 OCCUPYING WALL STREET
The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America
“An essential and galvanizing on-the-ground account of how oxygen suddenly and miraculously flooded back into the American brain.” —Jonathan Lethem More THE TORTURE REPORT
What the Documents Say About America’s Post-9/11 Torture Program
“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 ALIVE INSIDE THE WRECK
A Biography of Nathanael West
“Wildly funny, desperately sad, brutal and kind, furious and patient, there was no other like Nathanael West.” —Dorothy Parker More WHO KILLED CHE?
How the CIA Got Away With Murder
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 THE GLOBAL WARMING READER
“…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 GOLDSTONE RECANTS
Richard Goldstone Renews Israel’s License to Kill
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 THIS TIME WE WENT TOO FAR
Truth & Consequences of the Gaza Invasion
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 THE RUDE PUNDIT’S ALMANACK 2012 EDITION
“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 TWEETS FROM TAHRIR
Egypt’s revolution as it unfolded, in the words of the people who made it “Without the new media the Egyptian Revolution could not have happened in the way that it did…. The turning moment had come – but it was the instant and wide-spread nature of the new media that made it possible to recognise the moment and to push it into such an effective manifestation.” —Ahdaf Soueif, from the foreword, More WIKILEAKS AND THE AGE OF TRANSPARENCY
“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 A RIFT IN TIME
Travels with My Ottoman Uncle
“Raja Shehadeh’s Palestinian Walks provides a rare historical insight into the tragic changes taking place in Palestine.” —President Jimmy Carter, More WELCOME TO THE GREENHOUSE
New Science Fiction on Climate Change
Forty years ago, Walt Kelly’s comic strip character Pogo famously intoned: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” More AT THE TEA PARTY
The Wing Nuts, Whack Jobs and Whitey-Whiteness of the New Republican Right… And Why We Should Take It Seriously.
“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 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JENNY X
A Novel
On the surface of things Nadia Orsini’s life appears comfortable and unremarkable – Ivy League educated, happily married to a doctor, a mother of three, and a moderately successful photographer. But not all is as it seems. More From Mischief + Mayhem PROGRAM OR BE PROGRAMMED
Ten Commands for a Digital Age
“Thinking twice about our use of digital media, what our practices are doing to us, and what we are doing to each other, is one of the most important priorities people have today… Read this before and after you Tweet, Facebook, email or YouTube.” —Howard RheingoldMore RICH PEOPLE THINGS
It’s never easy being rich: endless tax avoidance, the Sisyphean search for reliable domestic staff, the never-ending burden of surly stares from the Great Sea of the Unwashed as one goes about one’s rightful business. More INFERNO
(a poet’s novel)
“I was completely stupefied by Inferno in the best of ways. In fact, I think I must feel kind of like Dante felt after seeing the face of God… I can tell you that Eileen Myles made me understand something I didn’t before. And really, what 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 More IN DEEP WATER
The Anatomy of a Disaster, The Fate of the Gulf, and How to End Our Oil Addiction
“If you’re looking for something that connects the dots between the BP oil disaster, the harm it’s done to the Gulf of Mexico and the people paying the price, this book is it… [In Deep Water] shows the way forward to protect this national treasure, safeguard our future and break our destructive addiction to oil.” —Robert Redford More MIDNIGHT ON THE MAVI MARMARA
The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict
“We have been attacked while in international waters. That means the Israelis have behaved like pirates … The whole action is illegal.” —Henning Mankell, aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla More COLLECTED FICTIONS
“Gordon Lish, famous for all the wrong reasons, has written some of the most fascinating American fiction of the last ten years.” —Don DeLillo More GOING ROUGE
Sarah Palin has many faces: hockey mom, fundamentalist Christian, sex symbol… More |