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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 […]
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortíz
For readers age 12 to 19. This new version of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States brings a painful but necessary reframing of our history to younger readers and teachers looking to better understand the legacy of Indigenous peoples’ resistance, resilience, and continued struggle against imperialism. Going beyond the story of America as a country […]
Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali, David Barsamian
David Barsamian interviews Tariq Ali. The New Press, 2005; 240 pages. COLLECTOR’s ITEM. OUT OF PRINT. A prolific and eloquent writer, Tariq Ali is also a captivating conversationalist. Speaking of Empire and Resistance captures him at his provocative best. This series of interviews with David Barsamian brings together Ali’s view on a wide range of […]
Challenging Power: Democracy and Accountability in a Fractured World
Cynthia Kaufman
Arguing that we only have democracy when systems of power are held to account, Cynthia Kaufman examines the real work being done to challenge the operations of power that underlie four unruly social problems: climate change, sweatshop labor, police abuse, and economic deprivation. In Challenging Power, she pairs each of these issues with an operation of power–the […]
Open Veins of Latin America
Eduardo Galeano
Perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, […]
Confronting Empire
Eqbal Ahmad, David Barsamian
Long out of print. Haymarket has published it now with a new forward by Pervez Hoodbhoy. Confronting Empire is probably Barsamian’s most influential interview book. “Eqbal Ahmad, perhaps the shrewdest and most original anti-imperialist analyst of Asia and Africa, [was] a man of enormous charisma and incorruptible ideals. He had an almost instinctive attraction to […]
War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict
David Shields
Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade’s worth of front-page war photographs from The New York Times and came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process of the “paper of record,” by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pulls the wool over the eyes of its readers; Shields forces us to […]
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