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How the World Works
David Barsamian interviews Noam Chomsky Edited by Arthur Naiman Soft Skull Press, 2011; 336 pages. According to The New York Times, Noam Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive."...
Noam Chomsky: Class Warfare
David Barsamian interviews Noam Chomsky. Common Courage Press, 1995; 185 pages. Continuing his best-selling interviews with David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky provides a road map to the concentration of corporate power....
Noam Chomsky: Keeping the Rabble in Line
David Barsamian interviews Noam Chomsky. Common Courage Press, 2002; 317 pages. A map of an emerging economic regime. In a series of interviews from 1992 to 1994, Noam Chomsky outlines...
Howard Zinn: The Future of History
David Barsamian interviews Howard Zinn. Common Courage Press, 1999; 192 pages. Who will control the past - and the future? In these panoramic interviews (1989-1998), Howard Zinn makes sense of...
Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire
David Barsamian interviews Eqbal Ahmad. Foreword by Edward Said. South End Press, 2001; 150 pages. "Eqbal Ahmad, perhaps the shrewdest and most original anti-imperialist analyst of Asia and Africa, [was]...
Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky
David Barsamian interviews Noam Chomsky. South End Press, 2001; 256 pages. In this latest collection of interviews with David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky interrogates the institutions that shape the public mind...
The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting
By David Barsamian. South End Press, 2001; 88 pages. Concentration of the media has reached new heights, making it harder for alternative and critical voices to gain a hearing. The...
Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said
David Barsamian interviews Edward Said. South End Press, 2003; 224 pages. In his latest book of interviews, Edward W. Said discusses the centrality of popular resistance to his understanding of culture,...
Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine
By David Barsamian. South End Press, 2004; 170 pages. Like an influential literary salon captured between covers, Louder Than Bombs brings together over twenty interviews with cultural and political luminaries...
The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy
David Barsamian interviews Arundhati Roy. South End Press, 2004; 180 pages. A skillful interviewer can reveal aspects of a writer's voice in simple yet telling ways. As a novelist, Arundhati...
Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali
David Barsamian interviews Tariq Ali. The New Press, 2005; 240 pages. A prolific and eloquent writer, Tariq Ali is also a captivating conversationalist. Speaking of Empire and Resistance captures him...
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post 9-11 World
David Barsamian interviews Noam Chomsky. Metropolitan/Holt, 2005; 228 pages. (More than 60,000 copies in print.) Timely, illuminating, and urgently needed, this volume of interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David...
Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics
David Barsamian interviews Howard Zinn. Foreword by Arundhati Roy. Harper Perennial, 2006; 167 pages. A collection of conversations with David Barsamian touching on such diverse topics as the American war...
Targeting Iran
By David Barsamian. Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Ervand Abrahamian and Nahid Mozaffari. City Lights Open Media, 2007; 144 pages. Iran and the United States are on a collision course. David...
What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World
David Barsamian interviews Noam Chomsky. Metropolitan Books, 2007; 240 pages. In this new collection of conversations, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: Iran's challenge to the United...
A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present
By Howard Zinn. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005; 768 pages. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is...
The Pen and the Sword: Conversations with Edward Said
David Barsamian interviews Edward Said. Introduction by Eqbal Ahmad. With a new preface by Nubar Hovsepian. Haymarket Books, March 2010; 180 pages. Gathered here are five wide-ranging interviews with the...