Or Books: 109 books

The diminutive co-founder of Code Pink has become famous for fearlessly tackling head-on subjects the left and right studiously avoid. Sometimes, she does so in person--as at President Obama's speech at the National Defense College, or in Egypt, where she was assaulted by police. Here, she's researching...

On the surface of things Nadia Orsinis life appears comfortable and unremarkable Ivy League educated, happily married to a doctor, a mother of three, and a moderately successful photographer. But not all is as it seems. Nadia has been telling lies. Nobody, not even her family, knows about her past,...

"Serious but easily readable. The History of Havana employs conventional documentary, written and visual sources and a variety of testimonials from throughout the world to bring to life the complex portraits and challenges of contemporary Havana." —Harry Belafonte Since its founding...

In literary America to utter the name Gordon Lish in a conversation is like adding hot sauce to a meal. You either enjoy the zesty experience one that pushes your limits or you prefer to stay away. Its Lish who first as fiction editor at Esquire magazine (where he earned the nickname Captain Fiction)...

“THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS WE CAN’T ADDRESS . . . WHOEVER MAY OCCUPY THE WHITE HOUSE.” “I’m not going to limit myself to condemning corruption and calling for its eradication; I also want to set out . . . a new politics, a different economic model, and the strengthening of cultural, moral,...

"In this compelling, wise, and passionate memoir, Jonathan Lerner gives us a deeply honest and self-questioning depiction of his youthful radicalism. By telling his particular story of life at the far edge of the 60s and 70s counter culture (with all its intricate complexities), he is able to...

For the Palestinians who live in the narrow coastal strip of Gaza the Israeli invasion of December 2008 was a nightmare of unimaginable proportions: In the 22-day-long action 1400 Gazans were killed several hundred on the first day alone.And yet while nothing should diminish Palestinian suffering through...

An engaging, accessible history of the focus group, Featherstone's survey shows how the primary purpose of the focus group has shifted from determining what we want, to selling us things we don't. The focus group, over the course of the last century, became an increasingly vital part of the...

The quest for his great-uncle Najib Nassar an Ottoman journalist the details of his life and the route of his great escape from occupied Palestine consumed award-winning writer Raja Shehadeh for two years. As he traces Najibs footsteps he discovers that today it would be impossible to flee the cage...

Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in code) as a route to progressive change. Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of and visionary behind WikiLeaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk movement since its inception in the 1980s. Now,...

The United States government is diligentsome might say to the point of obsessionin defending its borders against invaders be they terrorists natural disasters or illegal immigrants. Now we are told a small international band of renegades armed with nothing more than laptops presents the greatest threat...

ISIS’s genocidal attack on the Yezidi population in northern Iraq in 2014 brought the world’s attention to the small faith that numbers less than one million worldwide. That summer, ISIS massacred Yezidi men and enslaved women and children. More than one hundred thousand Yezidis were besieged...

A reissued classic; Robert Coover is one of America's best-known living authors Perfect for the Trump Era Never before released in paperback--or with this, its original title With a new introduction by the author

Street protests are one side of a worldwide citizens' movement. Another side is the increasing use of boycotts, one of the most powerful weapons in the organizer’s arsenal: it is an effective and moral lever for civil rights, most notably today in its adoption by the BDS movement. Since the...