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  • On Edward Said

    by Hamid Dabashi

    An intimate intellectual, political and personal portrait of Edward Said, one of the 20th centuries' leading public intellectuals.

  • We Still Here

    by Marc Lamont Hill

    In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means—and how we take steps to get there.

  • Text Messages: or How I Found Myself Time Traveling

    by Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman

    Text Messages is a survival guide for our anxious age from Iraqi-Canadian rapper and multi-media artist Yassin 'Narcy ' Alsalman.

  • Milagro

    by Penelope Alegria

    Penelope Alegria's Milagro is a retracing of parental lineage, a recount of the stories that course through the veins of family. The...

  • Night Thoughts

    by Wallace Shawn

    Writer and actor Wallace Shawn's probing, honest, and self-critical take on civilization and its discontents.

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    Can't Pay, Won't Pay

    by Debt Collective

    A Powerful Guide to Action for People in Debt.

  • Black Power Afterlives

    Edited by Diane Fujino and Matef Harmachis

    A powerful and wide-ranging collection examining the persistent impact of the Black Panther Party on subsequent liberation struggles.

  • The Brother You Choose

    by Susie Day

    Former Black Panthers Paul Coates and Eddie Conway discuss lives, politics, and their friendship that helped Eddie survive decades in prison.

  • How We Go Home

    Edited by Sara Sinclair

    How We Go Home shares contemporary Indigenous stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land and life.

  • Azadi

    by Arundhati Roy

    From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and pressing dispatch from the heart of the crowd and the solitude of the writer's desk. 

  • Dying for an iPhone

    by Jenny Chan, Pun Ngai, et al.

    A harrowing look lives and struggles of a new generation of Chinese workers confronting the Apple-Foxconn empire and the Chinese state.

  • Stardust to Stardust: Reflections on Living and Dying

    by Erik Olin Wright

    One of the 21st century's most brilliant sociologists confronts his own mortality.

  • A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

    by Hadas Thier

    A lively, accessible, and timely guide to Capitalism for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%

  • A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism

    by Jairus Banaji

    Spanning centuries and continents, this short work fundamentally reconfigures our view of the rise of capitalism on the world stage.

  • Long Shot

    by Rory Fanning and Craig Hodges

    Black-balled NBA champion explores the challenges and rewards of using a celebrity platform to stand up against racism and exploitation.

  • The Tragedy of American Science

    by Clifford D. Conner

    A compelling and timely account of the corruption, corporatization, and militarization of science in the United States.

  • Berkeley

    by Hal Draper

    Brimming with lessons still relevant for today's activists, Berkeley: The Student Revolt is a classic of on-the-ground historical reportage.

  • The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs Volume II

    Edited by Tim Davenport and David Walters

    Eugene V. Debs Selected Works will provide activists and scholars with a definitive trove of his best work that remains readable, informative, and inspiring.

     

  • RX Appalachia

    by Lesly-Marie Buer
    An account of radical responses to the opioid crisis facing women in Central Appalachia.

  • Blood and Money

    by David McNally

    Blood and Money tells the story of money as a history of violence and human bondage.

  • The Socialist Challenge Today

    by Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch

    A newly updated and expanded primer for 21st-century democratic socialists from acclaimed scholars Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, with Stephen Maher.

  • The Package King

    by Joe Allen

    An engaging look behind the curtain of one of America's most important companies.

  • The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4

    Edited by Felicia Chavez, José Olivarez, et al.

    A BreakBeat Poets anthology that opposes silence and re-mixes the soundtrack of the Latinx diaspora across diverse poetic traditions.

  • Choice Words

    Edited by Annie Finch

    With reproductive freedom under unprecedented attack, Choice Words, edited by poet Annie Finch, takes back the cultural conversation on abortion.