Or Books: 109 books
Gay Propaganda
Russian Love Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Gay Propaganda brings together original stories, interviews and testimonial, presented in both English and Russian, to capture the lives and loves of LGBT Russians living both in Russia and in exile today. Available in February 2014, in time for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the book is a provocative...
Blood Splatters Quickly
The Collected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Even if you think you don’t know him, you know him. Few in the Hollywood orbit have had greater influence; few have experienced more humiliating failure in their lifetime. Thanks in part to the biopic directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp and bearing his name, Ed Wood has become an icon of...
Hemingway Lives!
Why Reading Ernest Hemingway Matters Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
With the release of a flurry of feature and TV films about his life and work, and the publication of new books looking at his correspondence, his boat and even his favorite cocktails, Ernest Hemingway is once again center stage of contemporary culture. There’s something about Papa that makes any...
Freeloading
How Our Insatiable Appetite for Free Content Starves Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
As the battle rages over piracy, copyright, and the future of the Internet, which group argues on the right side of history? Searching for the truth, Freeloading roams the spunky streets of Brooklyn to glean real world consequences of digitization for today’s musicians, indie record labels and fans;...
by Raja Shehadeh
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
It is often the smallest details of daily life that tell us the most. And so it is under occupation in Palestine. What most of us take for granted has to be carefully thought about and planned for: When will the post be allowed to get through? Will there be enough water for the bath tonight? How shall...
Clint
The Life and Legend
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
“Pitiless.” —Le Monde“A damning indictment of the man and the culture that lionizes him. ” —The Washington Post“The most thoroughly demythologizing book yet written on modern Hollywood.” —The Los Angeles TimesWith just one syllable, the man is identified: there...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Judging by the stance of the leadership of the Democratic Party and much of the media, Hillary Clinton’s devastating loss in the presidential election of November 2016 was all the fault of pernicious Russian leaks, unwarranted FBI investigations and a skewed electoral college. Rarely blamed was...
Cuba in Splinters
Eleven Stories from the New Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Think Cuba, you’re likely to think bearded revolutionaries in fatigues. Salsa. Sugar cane.Rock ‘n’ roll, zombies, drugs anomie and angst do not generally figure in our mental images of a country that’s assumed an outsized place in the American imagination. But fresh from the tropics,...
Weakness and Deceit
America and El Salvador's Dirty War
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
A land and culture poorly understood by analysts, politicians, and voters in the far-off United States. A regime permeated with corruption; a country in the steel grip of a few families that disdained any system which might give a voice to the millions who kept them in comfort: guarding their children,...
Splinternet
How Geopolitics and Commerce Are Fragmenting the World Wide Web
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
“This is not your ordinary history of the Internet. Scott Malcomson has brilliantly extended the connections between Silicon Valley and the military back far beyond DARPA—back, in fact, to World War I. If you want to understand the conflict between cyberspace utopians and the states and corporations...
The Gulf
High Culture/Hard Labor
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
On Saadiyat Island, just off the coast of Abu Dhabi, branches of iconic cultural institutions, including the Louvre, the Guggenheim, the British Museum and New York University, are taking shape to the designs of starchitects such as Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid, and Norman Foster. In this...
The Big Disconnect
Why the Internet Hasn't Transformed Politics (Yet)
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Now that communication can be as quick as thought, why hasn’t our ability to organize politically—to establish gains and beyond that, to maintain them—kept pace? The web has given us both capacity and speed: but progressive change seems to be something perpetually in the air, rarely manifesting,...
The Price of Experience
Writings on Living with Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Writer and political activist Mike Marqusee was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, in the summer of 2007. At first, disinclined to share his misery with others, he was reluctant to write about his illness. But he then came to realize that doing so provided a precious continuity...
True False
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Klee’s last book, his first, was variously hailed as “sharply intelligent” (Publishers Weekly) and “harsh, spastic” (Justin Taylor): we like to think of True False as intelligently spastic, or sharply harsh—disquieting and funny. A collection of stories that range from the very short...