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Howard Zinn on Race
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn on Race is Zinn’s choice of the shorter writings and speeches that best reflect his views on America’s most taboo topic. As chairman of the history department at all-black women’s Spelman College, Zinn was an outspoken supporter of student activists in the nascent civil rights movement. In “The Southern Mystique,” he tells of how […]
Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions
Astra Taylor
“Astra Taylor’s crystalline writing is on full display in this collection of penetrating and profound essays, curated and necessary for these troubled times.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz “Whenever I read Astra Taylor, I never want to stop. Affable and curious, she invites readers with her on a relentless exploration of the most crucial questions facing the left, […]
Can the Working Class Change the World?
Michael Yates
Spoiler alert: Michael Yates not only answers his question with a resounding “Yes,” but insists that the working class must change the world. Our very survival as a people and a planet depend on it. What makes this book invaluable, however, is not its grand conclusion but Yates’s clear-eyed, global analysis of capitalism (historically and in […]
Retargeting Iran
David Barsamian, Ervand Abrahamian, Noam Chomsky, Nader Hashemi, Azadeh Moaveni, Trita Parsi
“ReTargeting Iran is not a travelogue about Iran but a facts-only objective account of where America has gone wrong, stupidly wrong—yet again—in its foreign policy, dominated by a mythical belief that Iran has an active nuclear weapons program. All one needs to know about the threat is this: as of mid-2020, the United States had […]
Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters
Rebecca Solnit
“In these times of political turbulence and an increasingly rabid and scrofulous commentariat, the sanity, wisdom and clarity of Rebecca Solnit’s writing is a forceful corrective. Whose Story Is This? is a scorchingly intelligent collection about the struggle to control narratives in the internet age.” —Alex Preston, The Guardian New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the […]
Men Explain Things To Me
Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit’s comic, scathing essay, “Men Explain Things to Me,” went viral and inspired the word mansplaining. She took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don’t, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the […]
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Rebecca Solnit
A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit‘s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of radicals at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a […]
The Mother of All Questions
Rebecca Solnit
“There’s a new feminist revolution – open to people of all genders – brewing right now and Rebecca Solnit is one of its most powerful, not to mention beguiling, voices.” –Barbara Ehrenreich In a timely follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers indispensable commentary on women who refuse to be […]
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestseller Men Explain Things to Me. Called “the voice of the resistance” by the New York Times, she has emerged as an essential guide to our times, through her incisive commentary on feminism, violence, ecology, hope, and everything in between. In this powerful and […]
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
This updated and expanded edition of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s groundbreaking book features a new chapter and a foreword by Angela Davis. The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law […]
Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said
Edward Said, David Barsamian
Edward Said is interviewed by David Barsamian on the importance and centrality of popular resistance in the framework of culture, history, and struggle. Prof. Said discusses the war on terrorism and the invasion of Afghanistan. On the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he lays out a compelling vision for a secular, democratic future in the Middle East. He proposes a radical […]
The Pen and the Sword: Conversations with Edward Said
Edward Said
David Barsamian interviews Edward Said. Introduction by Eqbal Ahmad. With a new preface by Nubar Hovsepian. Haymarket Books, 180 pages. Gathered here are five wide-ranging interviews with the internationally renowned Palestinian scholar and critic Edward Said (1935-2003). In conversation with David Barsamian, director of Alternative Radio, these interviews cover a broad range of topics, from […]

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