Essays
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The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLER
From the St. Louis-based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump’s presidential victory. “A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about t- Author: Kendzior, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1250189993
- Language: English
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Carceral Capitalism
$14.95 Add to cartEssays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.
What we see happen
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Intervention #21
- Author: Wang, Jackie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1635900026
- Language: English
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The Thinking Heart: Essays on Israel and Palestine
$16.00 Add to cartSearing essays from International Booker Prize-winning Israeli author and long-time peace activist David Grossman carry us up to and through the cataclysm of Oct 7th and what followed
We know David Gr- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Grossman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217007059
- Language: English
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My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction
$35.00 Read morePraise for Arundhati Roy:
“Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays.” –Howard Zinn
“Arund
- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1000
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1608466736
- Language: English
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Taking the Plunge Into Ethiopia: Tales of a Peace Corp Volunteer
$24.95 Read moreFrom 1968 until 1970, William Hershey served as the only Peace Corps volunteer in a small Ethiopian town. Hershey taught seventh and eighth grade students the English that they would need to continue … [more below]
- Series: Bliss Institute
- Author: Hershey, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1629222666
- Language: English
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Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul
$14.95 Add to cartA fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes its connections to race and racism in 21st-century America
Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under- Author: Taylor, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1912248549
- Language: English
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Who Will Build the Ark?: Debates on Climate Strategy from New Left Review
$24.95 Read moreWhat ecological politics should the left propose?
In Who Will Build the Ark?, leading radical thinkers debate left alternatives to runaway global heating, capitalist crisis and wider environmental br- Author: Seaton, Lola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1839767472
- Language: English
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The End of Imagination
$24.00 Add to cartThe End of Imagination brings together five of Arundhati Roy’s acclaimed books of essays into one comprehensive volume for the first time and features a new introduction by the author.
This new collec- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1608466191
- Language: English
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Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination
$22.00 Add to cartCapitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, ca… [more below]
- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1570272433
- Language: English
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An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics
$30.00 Read more“For more than forty years Roger Cohen has ventured to every corner of the earth to chronicle the great upheavals of our age, but he’s never lost sight of what really matters: love, hope, and all the … [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593321529
- Language: English
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Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections
$16.00 Read more“Read it and you will never think of civilization in the same way again.”–Kirkpatrick Sale
This anthology about “the pathology of civilization” offers insight into how progress and technology have led
- Author: Zerzan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0922915989
- Language: English
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K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
$35.00 Add to cartA comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical writing for a generation.
This comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed blogger- Author: Fisher, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 191224828X
- Language: English
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Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy
$24.95 Add to cartAmerica is at a crossroads. Conflicting political and social perspectives reflect a need to collectively define our moral imperatives, clarify cultural values, and inspire meaningful change. In that p… [more below]
- Author: Buntin, Simmons
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 159534912X
- Language: English
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The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A powerful collection of the influential columnist’s most important works–featuring rare speeches, a major essay about today’s populist movements and the future of global … [more below]
- Author: Krauthammer, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 198482550X
- Language: English
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Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen
$26.95 Add to cart“Takes readers on a head-shaking romp through a south Florida that they won’t find in any tourist brochure. . . . Hiaasen’s writing is fearless and the targets endless: politicians, municipal employee… [more below]
- Author: Hiaasen, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0813034280
- Language: English
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The ABC of Anarchism
$24.95 Add to cartA gifted writer for the anarchist movement, Alexander Berkman left Russia for the United States in 1888 when he was eighteen. Thirty-one years later, after serving a prison term for an attempted assas… [more below]
- Author: Berkman, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 297
- Publish Date: January 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0486433692
- Language: English
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Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy
$19.99 Add to cart“…a timely and entertaining account of how class rivalries as well as political conflicts have shaped and sometimes warped the news industry.”–Michael Lind, author of The New Class War: Saving Demo
- Author: Ungar-Sargon, Batya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1641772999
- Language: English
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Ecology Contested: Environmental Politics between Left and Right
$19.95 Add to cartIn an age of climate crisis and political confusion, ecology seems to offer clear answers to urgent questions about the current global predicament. Yet ecology has always been politically ambivalent.
- Author: Staudenmaier, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 8293064579
- Language: English
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I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rural Political Decay
$21.99 Add to cart- Author: Ferrence, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1959000276
- Language: English
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The Strenuous Life
$9.99 Add to cartPolitician, soldier, naturalist, and historian — a century after the peak of his multifaceted career, Theodore Roosevelt remains a towering symbol of American optimism and progress. This collection o… [more below]
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: May 24 2009
- ISBN10: 1607961318
- Language: English
