City Lights Books
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To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton
$16.95 Add to cartA fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America.
Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Newton is now being discovered by those interested in th
- Author: Newton, Huey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0872865290
- Language: English
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The Black History of the White House
$19.95 Add to cartThe Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved pe
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Lusane, Clarence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0872865320
- Language: English
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Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area
$16.95 Read moreWhy are there so few public monuments honoring women? Unsung Heroines shows it’s time to claim that space!
Women are grossly underrepresented in all of the Bay Area’s public spaces, but not because the
- Author: Alexandra, Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1931404208
- Language: English
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Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader
$35.00 Add to cartMichael Parenti’s most lucid and penetrating writings on power, history, politics and culture.
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0872864820
- Language: English
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Dirty Truths
$26.95 Add to cartEssays are enjoying renewed popularity, from the personal essays of Lewis Thomas, to the intellectual treats of Marguerite Yourcenar, to the political and social commentary of Michael Parenti in this
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0872863174
- Language: English
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Fruto: Bearing the Burden of Care
$17.95 Add to cartMothering always comes at a price, paid by women regardless of their means.
“Daniela Rea’s Fruto is a calm room late at night where women gather to talk: with their stories and their words they take ca
- Author: Rea, Daniela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869164
- Language: English
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Word Time
$15.95 Add to cart“This former San Francisco Poet Laureate and worldly cosmonaut handles politics, war, and love in equal measure as the best poets of the people do. Pablo Neruda. Bob Kaufman. June Jordan. Wanda Colema
- Author: Major, Devorah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869415
- Language: English
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Smoke
$16.95 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE CERCADOR PRIZE!
What happens to a country and its people after 35 years of terror? The author of Poso Wells and Family Album explores the aftermath of a dictatorship in this gothic fam
- Author: Alemán, Gabriela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869172
- Language: English
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Love Will Save Us, Right?: A Memoir
$16.95 Add to cartA tender, funny, stunningly candid memoir about the joys and challenges of parenting a neurodivergent young adult that reads like a heady concoction of Dorothy Allison, Anne Lamott, Alison Bechdel and
- Author: Partido, Suzette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869180
- Language: English
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Cavalier Perspective: Last Essays, 1952-1966
$18.95 Add to cartThe final book by the founder of Surrealism, translated into English for the first time.
“Cavalier Perspective shows us the lion in winter, Andr? Breton near the end of his life, trying to reconcile al
- Author: Breton, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869393
- Language: English
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Grime
$15.95 Add to cartOne of Publishers Weekly’s Most Anticipated Poetry Books for Fall!
From addiction and familial dysfunction to gentrification and police brutality, GRIME examines harsh realities through an activist len
- Series: City Lights Spotlight #25
- Author: Matthews, Thea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 087286913X
- Language: English
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The Portrait Gallery Called Existence
$16.95 Add to cartIn his final book, poet Neeli Cherkovski paints a portrait of his life through luminous details of encounters with his illustrious comrades.
“A prolific poet and denizen of beatnik cafes who chronicled
- Author: Cherkovski, Neeli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869377
- Language: English
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Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction
$17.95 Add to cartOne of The Millions Most Anticipated Books & a Powell’s Bookstore Staff Favorite of the Year!
Short stories from 25 emerging and established writers of Middle Eastern and North African origins, a uniqu
- Author: Elgrably, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0872869075
- Language: English
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Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable
$21.95 Add to cart“We are in a fight for our lives against a rising authoritarian tide, and this clear-eyed, compelling, clarion call of a book has a message everyone needs to hear.”—Astra Taylor, author of Democracy
- Author: Potter, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869148
- Language: English
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The Afterlife Is Letting Go
$17.95 Add to cart“The Afterlife Is Letting Go is a meditative consideration of Japanese American incarceration during WWII by Brandon Shimoda, author of the PEN Open Book Award-winning The Grave on the Wall.“–Matt Se
- Author: Shimoda, Brandon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0872869296
- Language: English
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Beautiful Chaos: A Life in the Theater
$17.95 Add to cartCarey Perloff, former Artistic Director of San Francisco’s legendary American Conservatory Theater, pens a lively and revealing memoir, and delivers a provocative and impassioned manifesto for the rol… [more below]
- Author: Perloff, Carey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1931404143
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Philip Lamantia, 1943-1966: Pocket Poets No. 20
$15.95 Add to cartThe original American surrealist returns in a new edition of the 1967 classic.
“I am eager to do a book of yours,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote to Philip Lamantia in Nerja, Spain in 1966. “What about SE
- Author: Lamantia, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869342
- Language: English
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Covid Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco
$16.95 Add to cartCOVID Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco meditates on the extraordinary time of loss, isolation, and bizarre rituals of the Covid era and its aftermath.
“Yep, she’s still got it. . . . Like
- Author: Finley, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869350
- Language: English
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Tales of Ordinary Madness
$16.95 Read moreExceptional stories that come pounding out of Bukowski’s violent and depraved life. Horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again.
This collection of stories was once part o
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: January 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0872861554
- Language: English
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The Bell Tolls for No One
$16.95 Add to cartPreviously uncollected pulp fiction by the 20th century American master.
“The uncollected gutbucket ramblings of the grand dirty old man of Los Angeles letters have been gathered in this characteristi
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 305
- Publish Date: July 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0872866823
- Language: English
