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A City Made of Words is an "innovative detour into the unknown and uncanny."

"Park pushes the boundaries of speculative fiction in this collection of eight fascinating short pieces that defy categorization...He captures the fragility of the human condition (and the human ego) while offering a sympathetic rendering of human struggles to find answers in a complex world. Seasoned speculative fiction fans will enjoy Park’s innovative detour into the unknown and uncanny."—Publishers Weekly

“Complex, elusive, haunting, written in a transparent prose that slips you from one world to another with prestidigitous ease.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin

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Birth Strike in Truthdig, Midwest Book Review

"Sharp yet sobering, Birth Strike is a "must-read" about a keystone American social issue. Birth Strike is highly recommended, especially for public library collections. ..."—James A. Cox,
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Dr. Michael Fine's Abundance -- "suavely and elegantly fashioned"

“Rhode Islander Michael Fine’s suavely and elegantly fashioned Abundance (PM Press) puts Liberia center stage instead of the Ocean State...The sparsely simple prose evokes a thriller-esque take on Ernest Hemingway, especially combined with the kind of setting Papa was known for taking on. A thinking man’s thriller that makes Fine the Ocean State’s own John Le Carré."—Jon Land, Booktrib

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Science Fiction's Gay Elder Statesman

"April Fool’s Day was the 77th birthday of science fiction writer and public intellectual Samuel R. Delany. Chip, as his friends call him, is a genius. Though his reputation continues to ascend like the twin moons that suddenly appear in the night sky in his science fiction masterpiece “Dhalgren” (celebrating 45 years since its publication this year), even if he continues to be underrated, in my view, as both a writer and as a leading light of queer sexual and civic liberation.

When the leviathans of science fiction like Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov were at the height of their popularity, it was Delany who won the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s Nebula Award two years in a row, in 1966 for “Babel-17” and the next year for “The Einstein Intersection.” He did this as an African American man. And as a gay man. That was completely unprecedented in American sci-fi writing."—Christopher Murray, Gay City News NYC

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Mutual Aid Listicle Kris Hermes
Mutual aid is the bedrock of thriving and sustainable communities.

Peterloo j. stephanie pasvankias
The British empire defeated Napoleon in 1815 on the field of battle at Waterloo (Belgium) and smashed the universal principles of the French Revolution – liberty, equality, and fraternity.

Notes on Anarchist Organizing Gabriel Kuhn
A response to reactions to the essay "Revolution Is More Than a Word: 23 Theses on Anarchism".

YELLOW VESTS STRUGGLE TO REINVENT DEMOCRACY AS MACRON UNLEASHES MORE PROPAGANDA AND REPRESSION Richard Greeman
After five months of constant presence at traffic circles, toll-booths and hazardous Saturday marches, the massive, self-organized social movement known as the Yellow Vests has just held its second nationwide “Assembly of Assemblies.&r...;

Slaughterhouse Prayer interview John King
“Slaughterhouse Prayer is a book that grabs you by the collar, slams you up against the wall and shoves you through various emotions. The atmosphere of it stays with you for days afterwards; intimidating, heart-rending, brilliant.&rdquo...;

Happy Birthday, Abdullah Ocalan! j. stephanie pasvankias
“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but … life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” -Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the time of Cholera

Gossip Girls: Emily Janakiram on Silvia Ferderici j. stephanie pasvankias
Silvia Federici has been one of the most influential and widely cited Marxist feminist scholars of the last 50 years. Her landmark work, Caliban and the Witch, argued that witch hunts were an organized campaign of mass murder of wome...

Gaza, Stonewall: Izzy Mustafa on Why People Rise Up Susie Day
Last year alone, some 189 Palestinians – including children, journalists, and the disabled – were killed at the Gaza border, most by Israeli live ammunition; 23,000 have been injured. One year later, the protests continue. Why?

268: Democracy vs. Communism Josh MacPhee
About a month ago I came across a clutch of these great old anti-communist pamphlets at Book Thug Nation. Touted as the “Democracy versus Communism Series,” they are an amazing collection of anti-communist myths, conspiracies, and g...

Bring Back Pell Grants for Prisoners Cynthia Kaufman
When I was in working on my PhD in philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, I paid for part of my education by teaching in prison. For me it was an incredibly rewarding experience. It was great working these students who had ti...

Gustav Landauer Exhibition in Berlin Gabriel Kuhn
With the 100th anniversary of Landauer’s death approaching, the folks of the Gustav Landauer Denkmalinitiative have curated an exhibition about Landauer in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

The Fortress World of Capitalism vs. the Beautiful Possibilities of Cooperation j. stephanie pasvankias
Our beloved world is entering an increasingly unstable period, full of dangers and also full of possibilities. In many countries, old political parties are crumbling faster and anyone thought imaginable.

269: Commie Round-Up Josh MacPhee
This week I thought I would just round up some of the cooler communist covers I’ve amassed over the past handful of years. It’s a nice collection, with material from a nice wide range of locales: Argentina, Israel, Italy, Poland...

Rumi and Love and Tolerance Peter Marshall
I said after breakfast in the ‘Rumi Hotel’ in Konya to a Sufi from Birmingham in England: ‘The reason why Rumi is so important today is because he taught tolerance and love.’

When Former Prosecutors Rebrand Themselves as Progressives to Win Elections Vikki Law
From Kamala Harris to Lori Lightfoot, former prosecutors are rewriting their own histories to present themselves as progressive.

Latest News from France Richard Greeman
Friday March 22nd 2019The situation here may be reaching a showdown between the Macron government, which is now considering using the Army against the Yellow Vests, and the social movement, to whose demands the regime co tinues to turn a deaf ear.

Activists, State Surveillance and Political Policing j. stephanie pasvankias
What can state surveillance, political policing, and the criminalisation of activists and communities tell us about the nature of democracy and the power of the state and capital in liberal democracies? Aziz Choudry expores the topic in great d...

12 Reasons Labor Should Demand a Green New Deal Jeremy Brecher
Labor shouldn't just back the Green New Deal, it should help lead the way. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Imagine Pleading Guilty Because You Can't Afford To Call Your Lawyer Vikki Law
Imagine paying $20.12 for a 15-minute phone call. That’s how much a call from the Jennings Adult Correctional Facility in Missouri costs.

France: Yellow Vests and Red Unions Strike Together Richard Greeman
As Macron Prepares New Repressive Measures Yellow Vests and Red Unions Strike Together

BIG TRUMP SCIENCE: AMERICANS ARE WORLD'S ONLY HUMANS Susie Day
According to top anthropologists at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, only United States citizens – unique among any other people on planet Earth – possess qualities identifying them as true Homo sapiens.

Random Chess Thoughts Leon Rosselson
Surely chess is a sad waste of brains. (Sir Walter Scott)The game of chess is the touchstone of the intellect. (Goethe)Chess makes men wiser and clear-sighted. (Vladimir Putin)I failed to make the chess team because of my height. (Woody Allen)

Every Woman Is a Working Woman: Silvia Federici in The Boston Review j. stephanie pasvankias
Silvia Federici interviewed by Jill Richards in The Boston Review

The Yellow Vests Movements, an update 1/15/19 Richard Greeman
The Yellow Vests Movement in France: Richard Greeman Reports from Montpellier to the Future Historians group on 1/15/19. For more information visit www.futurehistorians.org

Class War in Sweden Gabriel Kuhn
The social democratic paradise is not quite what it seems.

"IF YOU MEET THE PRESIDENT ON THE ROAD, KILL HIM": THE MAD ACTIVIST GOES ALL BUDDHIST Susie Day
DEAR TRUMP DIARY,7:34 a.m., Tuesday. I just signed another online petition. One of the 250 social-change outfits I connect with shot me an urgent text 45 seconds ago, so away I clicked.... How often must I do this, before I die of despair?

Seasons Greetings from France's Yellow Vests: "We are not tired" Richard Greeman
(Montpellier, France, Dec. 29) Is the Yellow Vest rebellion, now in its seventh week, “petering out?” Such was the near-unanimous pronouncement of the mainstream media, when I returned home to Montpellier, France, eager to pa...

"The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse" ed. Marjorie Cohn JJ Amaworo Wilson
"Experience, we are told, is a great teacher. If this is so, then my classroom was a clandestine prison and my teachers, experts in the commission of crimes against humanity." (Sister Dianna Ortiz, from Preface)

Who are the main killers of football? Gabriel Kuhn
An interview about "Soccer vs. the State" for a Russian book that might have come out or not.

Yellow Vests Richard Greeman
Ignored by Macron, distorted by the media, courted by the Right, snubbed by the Left, the self-organized mass movement known as the Yellow Vests is seriously challenging the political and economic order in France.

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