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Featured Books

The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3

Edited by Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo

A BreakBeat Poets anthology of writings by Muslims who are women, queer, genderqueer, nonbinary, or trans.
Build Yourself a Boat

by Camonghne Felix

Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.
Solito, Solita

Edited by Jonathan Freedman and Steven Mayers

They are a mass migration of thousands of young people from Central America, yet each one travels alone: solito, solita.
The Torture Machine

by Flint Taylor

A lawyer for the people, Flint Taylor has spent nearly fifty years fighting for justice, from the courtrooms of Cook County to the US Supreme Court.
Keywords

by John Patrick Leary

A lexicon of our age of inequality, which decodes the new vocabulary of capitalism for a broad readership.

Citizen Illegal

by José Olivarez
Citizen Illegal is a revealing portrait of life as a first generation immigrant, a celebration of Chicano joy, a shout against erasure, and a vibrant re-imagining of Mexican American life.
Fighting Fascism

by Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin’s report and resolution on fascism at the June 1923 enlarged plenum of the Communist International’s Executive Committee.
How We Get Free

Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." —Combahee River Collective Statement
Black Queer Hoe

by Britteney Black Rose Kapri
A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation.
No Is Not Enough

by Naomi Klein
“This year's most immediately useful political book.” —Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017

Devin Allen

“Devin Allen could be the Gordon Parks of his generation.”
—NBC BLK
Michael Bennett

“There is a tradition of athletes who understand that sports is a way to reach people and change the world. Michael Bennett's name deserves mention alongside the best of us.”
—Dr. John Carlos
Angela Y. Davis

"Here is someone worthy of the Ancestors who delivered her. Angela Davis has stood her ground on every issue important to the health of our people and the planet."
—Alice Walker
Eve L. Ewing

"Ignore Eve Ewing at your own intellectual, political, and cultural peril."

–Chicago Magazine
Naomi Klein

"Naomi Klein has become the most visible and influential figure on the left–what Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky were thirty years ago."
—The New Yorker

Aja Monet

“Aja Monet’s poetry offers us textures of feeling and radical shifts of meaning that expand our capacity to envision and fight for new worlds.”
—Angela Y. Davis
Arundhati Roy

“Arundhati Roy is one of the few great revolutionary intellectuals in our time."
—Cornel West
Rebecca Solnit

"No writer has weighed the complexities of sustaining hope in our times of readily available despair more thoughtfully and beautifully, nor with greater nuance."
—Maria Popova
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

"Taylor has absconded from the ivory tower to break down the current Movement for Black Lives, arguing that it holds the potential to reignite a broader push for black liberation."
—The Root
Howard Zinn

“Few people changed more lives than Howard Zinn."
—Naomi Klein