Cosey Fanni Tutti - 'Re-sisters, the Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe, and Cosey Fanni Tutti'
An inspirational and controlled explosion showing the lives of three exceptional artists and visionaries.
abuse
Jon Melrod - 'Fighting Times, Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War'
A palpable and fruitful recant of decades of union fights for decent worker rights.
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad - 'The Withdrawal - Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power'
Èdouard Louis - 'A Womans Battles and Transformations'
On a silent retreat, meditation, yoga, writing, sex, and life come into a head and leaves it via these words.
activism
Sarah Schulman - 'Let the Record Show, A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993'
A concise book around ACT UP, the HIV and AIDS epidemic, and resistence against annihilation.
adventure
Julian Sancton - 'Madhouse at the End of the Earth'
An extremely wild and entertaining adventure about humanity, life, and death. Men, huh?
afghanistan
Norman Solomon - 'War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine'
A book that shows how the USA and some of their media hide victims when necessary and bow to profit.
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad - 'The Withdrawal - Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power'
analysis
Peter Richardson - 'Savage Journey - Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo'
A pleasant read about an unpleasant and groundbreaking person.
David S. Wills - 'High White Notes - The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism'
A chronological, rhythmically bouncy, critical, statistical, and at-times interesting ride into Hunter S. Thompson's writing.
Josh Cohen - 'How to Live What to Do'
An introspective and mind-broadening book by a psychoanalyst who writes of other books.
anarchy
Noam Chomsky and James Kelman - 'Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime - Why Ideas Matter'
A book of letters, biography, and ideas based in correspondence, speeches, and interviews, 1988-2020.
Michael Beyea Reagan - 'Intersectional Class Struggle - Theory and Practice'
An enchanting and richly woven thesis in book form that does its title justice.
anthropocene
Geoff Dembicki - 'The Petroleum Papers, Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change'
One of the most prescient books at this point in time shows who covered up the climate catastrophe and why.
antifeminism
Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, Eli Friedman, Ashley Smith - 'China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry'
antisemitism
Sarah Wynn-Williams - 'Careless People: a Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism'
A self-protecting and scathing collection of tales about the autocratic, world-beating, and kleptocratic machine that is Facebook and, ultimately, Mark Zuckerberg.
art
Graeme Thomson - 'Under the Ivy'
A very kind and deftly written book about Kate Bush, musician, artist, composer, and poet.
Cosey Fanni Tutti - 'Re-sisters, the Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe, and Cosey Fanni Tutti'
An inspirational and controlled explosion showing the lives of three exceptional artists and visionaries.
Stefan Koldehoff - 'Art and Crime'
A anecdotal collection of stories of how art and crime are more often used to launder money than display beauty.
artificial intelligence
Noam Chomsky - 'A Livable Future is Possible'
A collection of interviews with mainly Noam Chomsky, where he speaks of important matters.
Madhumita Murgia - 'Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI'
So-called artificial intelligence as it affects real human beings.
artist
Ted Kessler - 'To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish'
A fragmented and wild retelling of and with the person who is Billy Childish.
Sinéad O'Connor - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Graeme Thomson - 'Under the Ivy'
A very kind and deftly written book about Kate Bush, musician, artist, composer, and poet.
Robert P. Kolker, Nathan Abrams - 'Kubrick: An Odyssey'
A big book about Stanley Kubrick's life in making film. Expect repetition, wild speculation, and a lot of wondrous facts.
Jason McBride - 'Eat Your Mind, The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker'
A breathing and passionate biography about a very important modern Western writer.
Cosey Fanni Tutti - 'Re-sisters, the Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe, and Cosey Fanni Tutti'
An inspirational and controlled explosion showing the lives of three exceptional artists and visionaries.
austerity
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Rosa Rankin-Gee - 'Dreamland'
My review of this beautiful semi-fictional novel.
author
Joyce Carol Oates - 'Letters to a Biographer'
Greg Johnson has edited a collection of Oates's letters to himself over a period of twenty-six years.
autobiography
Nick Banks - 'So it Started There'
For the first third, a very enjoyable book about growing up, family, and music.
Genesis P. Orridge - 'Nonbinary'
An interesting and slightly nauseating view of P. Orridge's life.
Sinéad O'Connor - 'Rememberings'
Kicking against the pricks (and other stuff), O'Connor has created a beautiful, jagged, funny, and harrowing autobiography.
autocracy
Sarah Wynn-Williams - 'Careless People: a Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism'
A self-protecting and scathing collection of tales about the autocratic, world-beating, and kleptocratic machine that is Facebook and, ultimately, Mark Zuckerberg.
band
Nick Banks - 'So it Started There'
For the first third, a very enjoyable book about growing up, family, and music.
biography
Adam Plunkett - 'Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry'
A very well-written biography on arguably the most well-known North American poet.
Ted Kessler - 'To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish'
A fragmented and wild retelling of and with the person who is Billy Childish.
Richard Balls - 'A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane McGowan'
A very straightforward and chronologically told story about McGowan's drugged and brilliant mind.
Kate Conger and Ryan Mac - 'Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter'
The tale of a wearing-no-clothes self-appointed emperor and his 44-billion-dollar toy.
Graeme Thomson - 'Under the Ivy'
A very kind and deftly written book about Kate Bush, musician, artist, composer, and poet.
Jason McBride - 'Eat Your Mind, The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker'
A breathing and passionate biography about a very important modern Western writer.
Cosey Fanni Tutti - 'Re-sisters, the Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe, and Cosey Fanni Tutti'
An inspirational and controlled explosion showing the lives of three exceptional artists and visionaries.
Peter Richardson - 'Savage Journey - Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo'
A pleasant read about an unpleasant and groundbreaking person.
David S. Wills - 'High White Notes - The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism'
A chronological, rhythmically bouncy, critical, statistical, and at-times interesting ride into Hunter S. Thompson's writing.
Laurie Woolever - 'Bourdain - The Definitive Oral Biography'
A radiant mesh of voices paint a wondrous, funny, and harrowing image of Anthony Bourdain.
Laurence Rees - 'Hitler's Charisma'
Terrific writing from a masterful historian makes this another great addition to the pantheon of books about World War II and human nature.
biomedicine
Csaba Szabo - 'Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research'
A calm and cool story about how one can't trust a lot of biomedicine research results and how to fix the problem.
bourgeoisie
Marlo Mack - 'How to be a Girl - A Mother's Memoir of Raising her Transgender Daughter'
A podcast first, now a book; a parent's story of a child who decides its own gender.
capitalism
Sarah Wynn-Williams - 'Careless People: a Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism'
A self-protecting and scathing collection of tales about the autocratic, world-beating, and kleptocratic machine that is Facebook and, ultimately, Mark Zuckerberg.
Liz Pelly - 'Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist'
A milestone achievement on how the music-streaming business has become capitalism and how we can destroy the current system.
Noam Chomsky - 'A Livable Future is Possible'
A collection of interviews with mainly Noam Chomsky, where he speaks of important matters.
Kate Conger and Ryan Mac - 'Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter'
The tale of a wearing-no-clothes self-appointed emperor and his 44-billion-dollar toy.
Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, Eli Friedman, Ashley Smith - 'China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry'
The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities
A big and modern collection of essays on intersectionality, edited by Jennifer C. Nash and Samantha Pinto.
Viet Thanh Nguyen - 'A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir. A History. A Memorial'
An author's battle with where he grew up, who he is, and where he's at.
Jon Melrod - 'Fighting Times, Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War'
A palpable and fruitful recant of decades of union fights for decent worker rights.
Geoff Dembicki - 'The Petroleum Papers, Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change'
One of the most prescient books at this point in time shows who covered up the climate catastrophe and why.
Stefan Koldehoff - 'Art and Crime'
A anecdotal collection of stories of how art and crime are more often used to launder money than display beauty.
Noam Chomsky and James Kelman - 'Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime - Why Ideas Matter'
A book of letters, biography, and ideas based in correspondence, speeches, and interviews, 1988-2020.
Michael Beyea Reagan - 'Intersectional Class Struggle - Theory and Practice'
An enchanting and richly woven thesis in book form that does its title justice.
Rosa Rankin-Gee - 'Dreamland'
My review of this beautiful semi-fictional novel.
Radden Patrick Keefe - 'Empire of Pain'
My review of Keefe's brilliant dissection of the Sackler opioid-epidemic legacy.
china
Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, Eli Friedman, Ashley Smith - 'China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry'
cinema
Steven Bach - 'Final Cut'
A funny and scary ride through the making of one of the biggest monetary film flops.
class
Michael Beyea Reagan - 'Intersectional Class Struggle - Theory and Practice'
An enchanting and richly woven thesis in book form that does its title justice.
climate catastrophe
Noam Chomsky - 'A Livable Future is Possible'
A collection of interviews with mainly Noam Chomsky, where he speaks of important matters.
Noam Chomsky - 'Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time'
Chomsky talks about the most current pressing matters currently on Earth, mainly the climate catastrophe and the threat of nuclear annihilation.
Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young Lutunatabua - 'Not Too Late, Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Optimism'
An extremely important collection of stories about our current state and where we can be.
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad - 'The Withdrawal - Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power'
collaboration
Robert P. Kolker, Nathan Abrams - 'Kubrick: An Odyssey'
A big book about Stanley Kubrick's life in making film. Expect repetition, wild speculation, and a lot of wondrous facts.
colonialism
Vijay Prashad - 'Washington Bullets'
This excellent book on CIA, coups, and assassinations, is weighed, loaded with fact, and is (remarkably so) briefly written.
corruption
Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, Eli Friedman, Ashley Smith - 'China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry'
Madhumita Murgia - 'Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI'
So-called artificial intelligence as it affects real human beings.
Geoff Dembicki - 'The Petroleum Papers, Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change'
One of the most prescient books at this point in time shows who covered up the climate catastrophe and why.
crime
Csaba Szabo - 'Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research'
A calm and cool story about how one can't trust a lot of biomedicine research results and how to fix the problem.
The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities
A big and modern collection of essays on intersectionality, edited by Jennifer C. Nash and Samantha Pinto.
Norman Solomon - 'War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine'
A book that shows how the USA and some of their media hide victims when necessary and bow to profit.
Cosey Fanni Tutti - 'Re-sisters, the Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe, and Cosey Fanni Tutti'
An inspirational and controlled explosion showing the lives of three exceptional artists and visionaries.
Jon Melrod - 'Fighting Times, Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War'
A palpable and fruitful recant of decades of union fights for decent worker rights.
Geoff Dembicki - 'The Petroleum Papers, Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change'
One of the most prescient books at this point in time shows who covered up the climate catastrophe and why.
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad - 'The Withdrawal - Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power'
Alaa Abd el-Fattah - 'You Have Not Yet Been Defeated'
A collection of writings by a leading Egyptian political activist.
Pauline Baer de Perignon - 'The Vanished Collection'
A detective-style tale of returning stolen art to rightful owners.
Stefan Koldehoff - 'Art and Crime'
A anecdotal collection of stories of how art and crime are more often used to launder money than display beauty.
Laurence Rees - 'Hitler's Charisma'
Terrific writing from a masterful historian makes this another great addition to the pantheon of books about World War II and human nature.
death
Sinéad O'Connor - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Robert P. Kolker, Nathan Abrams - 'Kubrick: An Odyssey'
A big book about Stanley Kubrick's life in making film. Expect repetition, wild speculation, and a lot of wondrous facts.
Colum McCann, Diane Foley - 'American Mother'
A person's life before, during, and after her son is murdered and her ordeal becomes international news.
Sloane Crosley - 'Grief is for People'
A burglary, the death of a friend, and more.
Amy Lin - 'Here After'
A lucid account of grief.
Norman Solomon - 'War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine'
A book that shows how the USA and some of their media hide victims when necessary and bow to profit.
Robert Emmet Meagher - 'Albert Camus and the Human Crisis'
A wondrous trip through Camus, covering many of his thoughts of human life while painting a magnificent portrait of a person whose mind is desperately needed in this time.
Lotta Fristorp - 'Benny - Drevet, döden'
En kraftfull uppgörelse med de som fegt drev Fredriksson till sin död.
Noam Chomsky - 'The Precipice - Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Social Change'
The latest urgent book of interviews with Noam Chomsky also includes words from Robert Pollin and Ha-Joon Chang.
Julian Sancton - 'Madhouse at the End of the Earth'
An extremely wild and entertaining adventure about humanity, life, and death. Men, huh?
desperation
Rosa Rankin-Gee - 'Dreamland'
My review of this beautiful semi-fictional novel.
detective
Pauline Baer de Perignon - 'The Vanished Collection'
A detective-style tale of returning stolen art to rightful owners.
dissent
Alaa Abd el-Fattah - 'You Have Not Yet Been Defeated'
A collection of writings by a leading Egyptian political activist.
drama
Patric Gagne - 'Sociopath: a Memoir'
A life told by a them-called sociopath.
drugs
Richard Balls - 'A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane McGowan'
A very straightforward and chronologically told story about McGowan's drugged and brilliant mind.
Sly Stone - 'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)'
Following decades of silence, Sly Stone releases his own words in book form.
egypt
Alaa Abd el-Fattah - 'You Have Not Yet Been Defeated'
A collection of writings by a leading Egyptian political activist.
empathy
Patric Gagne - 'Sociopath: a Memoir'
A life told by a them-called sociopath.
england
Ted Kessler - 'To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish'
A fragmented and wild retelling of and with the person who is Billy Childish.
Richard Balls - 'A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane McGowan'
A very straightforward and chronologically told story about McGowan's drugged and brilliant mind.
Graeme Thomson - 'Under the Ivy'
A very kind and deftly written book about Kate Bush, musician, artist, composer, and poet.
Nick Banks - 'So it Started There'
For the first third, a very enjoyable book about growing up, family, and music.
ethics
Madhumita Murgia - 'Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI'
So-called artificial intelligence as it affects real human beings.
excerpts
Excerpts from Rosa Rankin-Gee's 'Dreamland'
Some quotes that I collected from this wondrously human book.
Sarah Wynn-Williams - 'Careless People: a Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism'
A self-protecting and scathing collection of tales about the autocratic, world-beating, and kleptocratic machine that is Facebook and, ultimately, Mark Zuckerberg.
fame
Graeme Thomson - 'Under the Ivy'
A very kind and deftly written book about Kate Bush, musician, artist, composer, and poet.
Nick Banks - 'So it Started There'
For the first third, a very enjoyable book about growing up, family, and music.
family
Sinéad O'Connor - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Bev Boisseau Stohl - 'Chomsky and Me: A Memoir'
A thoughtful, funny, and loving memoir by Chomsky's assistant of 24 years.
Viet Thanh Nguyen - 'A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir. A History. A Memorial'
An author's battle with where he grew up, who he is, and where he's at.
Èdouard Louis - 'A Womans Battles and Transformations'
On a silent retreat, meditation, yoga, writing, sex, and life come into a head and leaves it via these words.
feminism
Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, Eli Friedman, Ashley Smith - 'China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry'
fiction
Zach Williams - 'Beautiful Days'
A visceral short-story collection by a promising debut author.
Colin Barrett - 'Wild Houses'
A short-story radiant's first novel. It's worth reading and stands out.
Susan Griffin - 'Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something - A Writer's Guide'
A brilliant little book that packs a lot of humanistic and powerful advice for all writers.
Megan Nolan - 'Acts of Desperation'
A fiction book that borders very much on human experiences.
Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson - 'Hollywood, the Oral History'
A huge chunk of Hollywood history, from the 1920s to the current day. Expect anecdotes.
Jason McBride - 'Eat Your Mind, The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker'
A breathing and passionate biography about a very important modern Western writer.
Geoff Dembicki - 'The Petroleum Papers, Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change'
One of the most prescient books at this point in time shows who covered up the climate catastrophe and why.
Emmanuel Carrère - 'Yoga'
On a silent retreat, meditation, yoga, writing, sex, and life come into a head and leaves it via these words.
Peter Richardson - 'Savage Journey - Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo'
A pleasant read about an unpleasant and groundbreaking person.
David S. Wills - 'High White Notes - The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism'
A chronological, rhythmically bouncy, critical, statistical, and at-times interesting ride into Hunter S. Thompson's writing.
Angela Davis - 'An Autobiography'
This Black Panther's autobiography is today even more explosive than when it was first released.
Michelle Glazer - 'fretwork'
This poetry collection reeks of nature and repetition (in a good way) but is not memorable.
Lotta Fristorp - 'Benny - Drevet, döden'
En kraftfull uppgörelse med de som fegt drev Fredriksson till sin död.
Ben Cardew - 'Daft Punk's Discovery, The Future Unfurled'
Julian Sancton - 'Madhouse at the End of the Earth'
An extremely wild and entertaining adventure about humanity, life, and death. Men, huh?
Genesis P. Orridge - 'Nonbinary'
An interesting and slightly nauseating view of P. Orridge's life.
Josh Cohen - 'How to Live What to Do'
An introspective and mind-broadening book by a psychoanalyst who writes of other books.
Will McPhail – ‘In - A Graphic Novel’
This is a masterpiece about the human condition, in graphic-novel form.
Excerpts from Rosa Rankin-Gee's 'Dreamland'
Some quotes that I collected from this wondrously human book.
Rosa Rankin-Gee - 'Dreamland'
My review of this beautiful semi-fictional novel.
Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever - 'World Travel'
My review of a rock ‘n’ roll-meets-Lonely Planet travel guide consisting of Bourdain’s musings on TV, modern-day comments on places that featured on his TV shows, and features from elsewhere.
film
Robert P. Kolker, Nathan Abrams - 'Kubrick: An Odyssey'
A big book about Stanley Kubrick's life in making film. Expect repetition, wild speculation, and a lot of wondrous facts.
food
Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever - 'World Travel'
My review of a rock ‘n’ roll-meets-Lonely Planet travel guide consisting of Bourdain’s musings on TV, modern-day comments on places that featured on his TV shows, and features from elsewhere.
forgiveness
Colum McCann, Diane Foley - 'American Mother'
A person's life before, during, and after her son is murdered and her ordeal becomes international news.
fraud
Csaba Szabo - 'Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research'
A calm and cool story about how one can't trust a lot of biomedicine research results and how to fix the problem.
Stefan Koldehoff - 'Art and Crime'
A anecdotal collection of stories of how art and crime are more often used to launder money than display beauty.
friendship
Bev Boisseau Stohl - 'Chomsky and Me: A Memoir'
A thoughtful, funny, and loving memoir by Chomsky's assistant of 24 years.
funny
Steven Bach - 'Final Cut'
A funny and scary ride through the making of one of the biggest monetary film flops.
gay
Gary Indiana - 'I Can Give You Anything but Love'
A memoir from a very talented beat-ish author.
gender
The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities
A big and modern collection of essays on intersectionality, edited by Jennifer C. Nash and Samantha Pinto.
Èdouard Louis - 'A Womans Battles and Transformations'
On a silent retreat, meditation, yoga, writing, sex, and life come into a head and leaves it via these words.
Marlo Mack - 'How to be a Girl - A Mother's Memoir of Raising her Transgender Daughter'
A podcast first, now a book; a parent's story of a child who decides its own gender.
genocide
Sarah Wynn-Williams - 'Careless People: a Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism'
A self-protecting and scathing collection of tales about the autocratic, world-beating, and kleptocratic machine that is Facebook and, ultimately, Mark Zuckerberg.
Teresa Aranguren, Sandra Barrilaro - 'Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine before the Nakba'
A powerful collection of images and stories of Palestine and the opposition.
graphic novel
Will McPhail – ‘In - A Graphic Novel’
This is a masterpiece about the human condition, in graphic-novel form.
greed
Sarah Wynn-Williams - 'Careless People: a Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism'
A self-protecting and scathing collection of tales about the autocratic, world-beating, and kleptocratic machine that is Facebook and, ultimately, Mark Zuckerberg.
grief
Colum McCann, Diane Foley - 'American Mother'
A person's life before, during, and after her son is murdered and her ordeal becomes international news.
Sloane Crosley - 'Grief is for People'
A burglary, the death of a friend, and more.
Amy Lin - 'Here After'
A lucid account of grief.
grift
Sarah Wynn-Williams - 'Careless People: a Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism'
A self-protecting and scathing collection of tales about the autocratic, world-beating, and kleptocratic machine that is Facebook and, ultimately, Mark Zuckerberg.
guide
Susan Griffin - 'Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something - A Writer's Guide'
A brilliant little book that packs a lot of humanistic and powerful advice for all writers.
hate
Sarah Wynn-Williams - 'Careless People: a Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism'
A self-protecting and scathing collection of tales about the autocratic, world-beating, and kleptocratic machine that is Facebook and, ultimately, Mark Zuckerberg.
Adam Plunkett - 'Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry'
A very well-written biography on arguably the most well-known North American poet.
Ted Kessler - 'To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish'
A fragmented and wild retelling of and with the person who is Billy Childish.
Viet Thanh Nguyen - 'A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir. A History. A Memorial'
An author's battle with where he grew up, who he is, and where he's at.
Sarah Schulman - 'Let the Record Show, A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993'
A concise book around ACT UP, the HIV and AIDS epidemic, and resistence against annihilation.
help
Robert Matzen - 'Warrior, Audrey Hepburn'
My review Matzen's straightforward, stuffy, and interesting book about the later part of Audrey Hepburn's life, focusing on her humanitarian work.
history
Patrick Joyce - 'Going to my Father's House'
A lovely ride through Ireland, decades, politics, religion, and England.
human rights
Jon Melrod - 'Fighting Times, Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War'
A palpable and fruitful recant of decades of union fights for decent worker rights.
humanism
The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities
A big and modern collection of essays on intersectionality, edited by Jennifer C. Nash and Samantha Pinto.
humanity
Noam Chomsky - 'A Livable Future is Possible'
A collection of interviews with mainly Noam Chomsky, where he speaks of important matters.
The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities
A big and modern collection of essays on intersectionality, edited by Jennifer C. Nash and Samantha Pinto.
Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young Lutunatabua - 'Not Too Late, Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Optimism'
An extremely important collection of stories about our current state and where we can be.
Robert Emmet Meagher - 'Albert Camus and the Human Crisis'
A wondrous trip through Camus, covering many of his thoughts of human life while painting a magnificent portrait of a person whose mind is desperately needed in this time.
humour
Sloane Crosley - 'Grief is for People'
A burglary, the death of a friend, and more.
injustice
Noam Chomsky - 'A Livable Future is Possible'
A collection of interviews with mainly Noam Chomsky, where he speaks of important matters.
insanity
Kate Conger and Ryan Mac - 'Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter'
The tale of a wearing-no-clothes self-appointed emperor and his 44-billion-dollar toy.
Julian Sancton - 'Madhouse at the End of the Earth'
An extremely wild and entertaining adventure about humanity, life, and death. Men, huh?
interviews
Noam Chomsky - 'A Livable Future is Possible'
A collection of interviews with mainly Noam Chomsky, where he speaks of important matters.
Sinéad O'Connor - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Anthony Bourdain - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Toni Morrison - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Frida Kahlo - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Joan Didion - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Billie Holiday - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
iraq
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad - 'The Withdrawal - Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power'
ireland
Richard Balls - 'A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane McGowan'
A very straightforward and chronologically told story about McGowan's drugged and brilliant mind.
Sinéad O'Connor - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Colin Barrett - 'Wild Houses'
A short-story radiant's first novel. It's worth reading and stands out.
israel
Teresa Aranguren, Sandra Barrilaro - 'Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine before the Nakba'
A powerful collection of images and stories of Palestine and the opposition.
Norman Solomon - 'War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine'
A book that shows how the USA and some of their media hide victims when necessary and bow to profit.
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad - 'The Withdrawal - Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power'
kleptocracy
Liz Pelly - 'Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist'
A milestone achievement on how the music-streaming business has become capitalism and how we can destroy the current system.
language
William Zinsser - 'On Writing Well'
This style guide has sold over a million copies and is useful for writers of all sorts.
law
The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities
A big and modern collection of essays on intersectionality, edited by Jennifer C. Nash and Samantha Pinto.
letters
Joyce Carol Oates - 'Letters to a Biographer'
Greg Johnson has edited a collection of Oates's letters to himself over a period of twenty-six years.
libya
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad - 'The Withdrawal - Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power'
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad - 'The Withdrawal - Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power'
lies
Sarah Wynn-Williams - 'Careless People: a Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism'
A self-protecting and scathing collection of tales about the autocratic, world-beating, and kleptocratic machine that is Facebook and, ultimately, Mark Zuckerberg.
Lotta Fristorp - 'Benny - Drevet, döden'
En kraftfull uppgörelse med de som fegt drev Fredriksson till sin död.
life
Adam Plunkett - 'Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry'
A very well-written biography on arguably the most well-known North American poet.
Ted Kessler - 'To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish'
A fragmented and wild retelling of and with the person who is Billy Childish.
Richard Balls - 'A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane McGowan'
A very straightforward and chronologically told story about McGowan's drugged and brilliant mind.
Noam Chomsky - 'A Livable Future is Possible'
A collection of interviews with mainly Noam Chomsky, where he speaks of important matters.
Sinéad O'Connor - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Gary Indiana - 'I Can Give You Anything but Love'
A memoir from a very talented beat-ish author.
The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities
A big and modern collection of essays on intersectionality, edited by Jennifer C. Nash and Samantha Pinto.
Robert P. Kolker, Nathan Abrams - 'Kubrick: An Odyssey'
A big book about Stanley Kubrick's life in making film. Expect repetition, wild speculation, and a lot of wondrous facts.
Patric Gagne - 'Sociopath: a Memoir'
A life told by a them-called sociopath.
Colum McCann, Diane Foley - 'American Mother'
A person's life before, during, and after her son is murdered and her ordeal becomes international news.
Sloane Crosley - 'Grief is for People'
A burglary, the death of a friend, and more.
Amy Lin - 'Here After'
A lucid account of grief.
Joyce Carol Oates - 'Letters to a Biographer'
Greg Johnson has edited a collection of Oates's letters to himself over a period of twenty-six years.
Teresa Aranguren, Sandra Barrilaro - 'Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine before the Nakba'
A powerful collection of images and stories of Palestine and the opposition.
Sly Stone - 'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)'
Following decades of silence, Sly Stone releases his own words in book form.
Èdouard Louis - 'A Womans Battles and Transformations'
On a silent retreat, meditation, yoga, writing, sex, and life come into a head and leaves it via these words.
Emmanuel Carrère - 'Yoga'
On a silent retreat, meditation, yoga, writing, sex, and life come into a head and leaves it via these words.
Robert Emmet Meagher - 'Albert Camus and the Human Crisis'
A wondrous trip through Camus, covering many of his thoughts of human life while painting a magnificent portrait of a person whose mind is desperately needed in this time.
Laurie Woolever - 'Bourdain - The Definitive Oral Biography'
A radiant mesh of voices paint a wondrous, funny, and harrowing image of Anthony Bourdain.
Robert Matzen - 'Warrior, Audrey Hepburn'
My review Matzen's straightforward, stuffy, and interesting book about the later part of Audrey Hepburn's life, focusing on her humanitarian work.
Daniel de Visé - 'King of The Blues'
My review of Daniel de Visé's straightforward biography of B.B. King.
Noam Chomsky - 'The Precipice - Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Social Change'
The latest urgent book of interviews with Noam Chomsky also includes words from Robert Pollin and Ha-Joon Chang.
Julian Sancton - 'Madhouse at the End of the Earth'
An extremely wild and entertaining adventure about humanity, life, and death. Men, huh?
Genesis P. Orridge - 'Nonbinary'
An interesting and slightly nauseating view of P. Orridge's life.
Sinéad O'Connor - 'Rememberings'
Kicking against the pricks (and other stuff), O'Connor has created a beautiful, jagged, funny, and harrowing autobiography.
Sarah Schulman - 'Let the Record Show, A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993'
A concise book around ACT UP, the HIV and AIDS epidemic, and resistence against annihilation.
Josh Cohen - 'How to Live What to Do'
An introspective and mind-broadening book by a psychoanalyst who writes of other books.
Laurence Rees - 'Hitler's Charisma'
Terrific writing from a masterful historian makes this another great addition to the pantheon of books about World War II and human nature.
Will McPhail – ‘In - A Graphic Novel’
This is a masterpiece about the human condition, in graphic-novel form.
love
Adam Plunkett - 'Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry'
A very well-written biography on arguably the most well-known North American poet.
Ted Kessler - 'To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish'
A fragmented and wild retelling of and with the person who is Billy Childish.
Richard Balls - 'A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane McGowan'
A very straightforward and chronologically told story about McGowan's drugged and brilliant mind.
Sinéad O'Connor - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Gary Indiana - 'I Can Give You Anything but Love'
A memoir from a very talented beat-ish author.
Bev Boisseau Stohl - 'Chomsky and Me: A Memoir'
A thoughtful, funny, and loving memoir by Chomsky's assistant of 24 years.
The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities
A big and modern collection of essays on intersectionality, edited by Jennifer C. Nash and Samantha Pinto.
Robert P. Kolker, Nathan Abrams - 'Kubrick: An Odyssey'
A big book about Stanley Kubrick's life in making film. Expect repetition, wild speculation, and a lot of wondrous facts.
Viet Thanh Nguyen - 'A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir. A History. A Memorial'
An author's battle with where he grew up, who he is, and where he's at.
Megan Nolan - 'Acts of Desperation'
A fiction book that borders very much on human experiences.
Sarah Schulman - 'Let the Record Show, A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993'
A concise book around ACT UP, the HIV and AIDS epidemic, and resistence against annihilation.
Will McPhail – ‘In - A Graphic Novel’
This is a masterpiece about the human condition, in graphic-novel form.
Rosa Rankin-Gee - 'Dreamland'
My review of this beautiful semi-fictional novel.
media
Norman Solomon - 'War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine'
A book that shows how the USA and some of their media hide victims when necessary and bow to profit.
Lotta Fristorp - 'Benny - Drevet, döden'
En kraftfull uppgörelse med de som fegt drev Fredriksson till sin död.
memoir
Bev Boisseau Stohl - 'Chomsky and Me: A Memoir'
A thoughtful, funny, and loving memoir by Chomsky's assistant of 24 years.
Alexander Kriss - 'Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder'
A powerful collection of images and stories of Palestine and the opposition.
D. X. Ferris - 'Reign in Blood'
A book entirely about Slayer's masterpiece album 'Reign in Blood'. The book is short and packs a punch, like the album.
Patrick Joyce - 'Going to my Father's House'
A lovely ride through Ireland, decades, politics, religion, and England.
Sinéad O'Connor - 'Rememberings'
Kicking against the pricks (and other stuff), O'Connor has created a beautiful, jagged, funny, and harrowing autobiography.
Steven Bach - 'Final Cut'
A funny and scary ride through the making of one of the biggest monetary film flops.
mental disorder
Rick Emerson - 'Unmask Alice'
The first biography about Beatrice Sparks, the author of 'Go Ask Alice' and 'Jay's Journal'.
mob
Lotta Fristorp - 'Benny - Drevet, döden'
En kraftfull uppgörelse med de som fegt drev Fredriksson till sin död.
morality
Robert Matzen - 'Warrior, Audrey Hepburn'
My review Matzen's straightforward, stuffy, and interesting book about the later part of Audrey Hepburn's life, focusing on her humanitarian work.
Radden Patrick Keefe - 'Empire of Pain'
My review of Keefe's brilliant dissection of the Sackler opioid-epidemic legacy.
murder
Norman Solomon - 'War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine'
A book that shows how the USA and some of their media hide victims when necessary and bow to profit.
music
Ted Kessler - 'To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish'
A fragmented and wild retelling of and with the person who is Billy Childish.
Liz Pelly - 'Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist'
A milestone achievement on how the music-streaming business has become capitalism and how we can destroy the current system.
Richard Balls - 'A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane McGowan'
A very straightforward and chronologically told story about McGowan's drugged and brilliant mind.
Sinéad O'Connor - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Graeme Thomson - 'Under the Ivy'
A very kind and deftly written book about Kate Bush, musician, artist, composer, and poet.
Nick Banks - 'So it Started There'
For the first third, a very enjoyable book about growing up, family, and music.
Sly Stone - 'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)'
Following decades of silence, Sly Stone releases his own words in book form.
D. X. Ferris - 'Reign in Blood'
A book entirely about Slayer's masterpiece album 'Reign in Blood'. The book is short and packs a punch, like the album.
Cosey Fanni Tutti - 'Re-sisters, the Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe, and Cosey Fanni Tutti'
An inspirational and controlled explosion showing the lives of three exceptional artists and visionaries.
Daniel de Visé - 'King of The Blues'
My review of Daniel de Visé's straightforward biography of B.B. King.
Sinéad O'Connor - 'Rememberings'
Kicking against the pricks (and other stuff), O'Connor has created a beautiful, jagged, funny, and harrowing autobiography.
musician
Ted Kessler - 'To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish'
A fragmented and wild retelling of and with the person who is Billy Childish.
Richard Balls - 'A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane McGowan'
A very straightforward and chronologically told story about McGowan's drugged and brilliant mind.
Sinéad O'Connor - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Graeme Thomson - 'Under the Ivy'
A very kind and deftly written book about Kate Bush, musician, artist, composer, and poet.
Sly Stone - 'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)'
Following decades of silence, Sly Stone releases his own words in book form.
Daniel de Visé - 'King of The Blues'
My review of Daniel de Visé's straightforward biography of B.B. King.
Genesis P. Orridge - 'Nonbinary'
An interesting and slightly nauseating view of P. Orridge's life.
musicians
Liz Pelly - 'Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist'
A milestone achievement on how the music-streaming business has become capitalism and how we can destroy the current system.
nato
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad - 'The Withdrawal - Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power'
noam chomsky
Noam Chomsky - 'A Livable Future is Possible'
A collection of interviews with mainly Noam Chomsky, where he speaks of important matters.
Bev Boisseau Stohl - 'Chomsky and Me: A Memoir'
A thoughtful, funny, and loving memoir by Chomsky's assistant of 24 years.
Noam Chomsky - 'Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time'
Chomsky talks about the most current pressing matters currently on Earth, mainly the climate catastrophe and the threat of nuclear annihilation.
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad - 'The Withdrawal - Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power'
Noam Chomsky - 'The Precipice - Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Social Change'
The latest urgent book of interviews with Noam Chomsky also includes words from Robert Pollin and Ha-Joon Chang.
non-fiction
Address change to reviews.pivic.com
This site is changing its address.
Csaba Szabo - 'Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research'
A calm and cool story about how one can't trust a lot of biomedicine research results and how to fix the problem.
Adam Plunkett - 'Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry'
A very well-written biography on arguably the most well-known North American poet.
Ted Kessler - 'To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish'
A fragmented and wild retelling of and with the person who is Billy Childish.
Liz Pelly - 'Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist'
A milestone achievement on how the music-streaming business has become capitalism and how we can destroy the current system.
Richard Balls - 'A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane McGowan'
A very straightforward and chronologically told story about McGowan's drugged and brilliant mind.
Noam Chomsky - 'A Livable Future is Possible'
A collection of interviews with mainly Noam Chomsky, where he speaks of important matters.
Sinéad O'Connor - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Kate Conger and Ryan Mac - 'Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter'
The tale of a wearing-no-clothes self-appointed emperor and his 44-billion-dollar toy.
Graeme Thomson - 'Under the Ivy'
A very kind and deftly written book about Kate Bush, musician, artist, composer, and poet.
Nick Banks - 'So it Started There'
For the first third, a very enjoyable book about growing up, family, and music.
Gary Indiana - 'I Can Give You Anything but Love'
A memoir from a very talented beat-ish author.
Bev Boisseau Stohl - 'Chomsky and Me: A Memoir'
A thoughtful, funny, and loving memoir by Chomsky's assistant of 24 years.
Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, Eli Friedman, Ashley Smith - 'China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry'
The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities
A big and modern collection of essays on intersectionality, edited by Jennifer C. Nash and Samantha Pinto.
Alexander Kriss - 'Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder'
A powerful collection of images and stories of Palestine and the opposition.
Madhumita Murgia - 'Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI'
So-called artificial intelligence as it affects real human beings.
Robert P. Kolker, Nathan Abrams - 'Kubrick: An Odyssey'
A big book about Stanley Kubrick's life in making film. Expect repetition, wild speculation, and a lot of wondrous facts.
Patric Gagne - 'Sociopath: a Memoir'
A life told by a them-called sociopath.
Colum McCann, Diane Foley - 'American Mother'
A person's life before, during, and after her son is murdered and her ordeal becomes international news.
Sloane Crosley - 'Grief is for People'
A burglary, the death of a friend, and more.
Amy Lin - 'Here After'
A lucid account of grief.
Joyce Carol Oates - 'Letters to a Biographer'
Greg Johnson has edited a collection of Oates's letters to himself over a period of twenty-six years.
Teresa Aranguren, Sandra Barrilaro - 'Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine before the Nakba'
A powerful collection of images and stories of Palestine and the opposition.
Sly Stone - 'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)'
Following decades of silence, Sly Stone releases his own words in book form.
Viet Thanh Nguyen - 'A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir. A History. A Memorial'
An author's battle with where he grew up, who he is, and where he's at.
Norman Solomon - 'War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine'
A book that shows how the USA and some of their media hide victims when necessary and bow to profit.
D. X. Ferris - 'Reign in Blood'
A book entirely about Slayer's masterpiece album 'Reign in Blood'. The book is short and packs a punch, like the album.
Wolfram Eilenberger - 'The Visionaries'
Eilenberger presents a world-changing decade in the lives of four individuals who changed their time, themselves, and the future.
Noam Chomsky - 'Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time'
Chomsky talks about the most current pressing matters currently on Earth, mainly the climate catastrophe and the threat of nuclear annihilation.
Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young Lutunatabua - 'Not Too Late, Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Optimism'
An extremely important collection of stories about our current state and where we can be.
Susan Griffin - 'Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something - A Writer's Guide'
A brilliant little book that packs a lot of humanistic and powerful advice for all writers.
Anthony Bourdain - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Toni Morrison - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Frida Kahlo - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson - 'Hollywood, the Oral History'
A huge chunk of Hollywood history, from the 1920s to the current day. Expect anecdotes.
Joan Didion - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Billie Holiday - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Jason McBride - 'Eat Your Mind, The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker'
A breathing and passionate biography about a very important modern Western writer.
Cosey Fanni Tutti - 'Re-sisters, the Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe, and Cosey Fanni Tutti'
An inspirational and controlled explosion showing the lives of three exceptional artists and visionaries.
Jon Melrod - 'Fighting Times, Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War'
A palpable and fruitful recant of decades of union fights for decent worker rights.
Geoff Dembicki - 'The Petroleum Papers, Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change'
One of the most prescient books at this point in time shows who covered up the climate catastrophe and why.
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad - 'The Withdrawal - Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power'
Èdouard Louis - 'A Womans Battles and Transformations'
On a silent retreat, meditation, yoga, writing, sex, and life come into a head and leaves it via these words.
Rick Emerson - 'Unmask Alice'
The first biography about Beatrice Sparks, the author of 'Go Ask Alice' and 'Jay's Journal'.
Emmanuel Carrère - 'Yoga'
On a silent retreat, meditation, yoga, writing, sex, and life come into a head and leaves it via these words.
Alaa Abd el-Fattah - 'You Have Not Yet Been Defeated'
A collection of writings by a leading Egyptian political activist.
Peter Richardson - 'Savage Journey - Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo'
A pleasant read about an unpleasant and groundbreaking person.
Pauline Baer de Perignon - 'The Vanished Collection'
A detective-style tale of returning stolen art to rightful owners.
Stefan Koldehoff - 'Art and Crime'
A anecdotal collection of stories of how art and crime are more often used to launder money than display beauty.
Noam Chomsky and James Kelman - 'Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime - Why Ideas Matter'
A book of letters, biography, and ideas based in correspondence, speeches, and interviews, 1988-2020.
David S. Wills - 'High White Notes - The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism'
A chronological, rhythmically bouncy, critical, statistical, and at-times interesting ride into Hunter S. Thompson's writing.
Robert Emmet Meagher - 'Albert Camus and the Human Crisis'
A wondrous trip through Camus, covering many of his thoughts of human life while painting a magnificent portrait of a person whose mind is desperately needed in this time.
Angela Davis - 'An Autobiography'
This Black Panther's autobiography is today even more explosive than when it was first released.
Laurie Woolever - 'Bourdain - The Definitive Oral Biography'
A radiant mesh of voices paint a wondrous, funny, and harrowing image of Anthony Bourdain.
Marlo Mack - 'How to be a Girl - A Mother's Memoir of Raising her Transgender Daughter'
A podcast first, now a book; a parent's story of a child who decides its own gender.
Robert Matzen - 'Warrior, Audrey Hepburn'
My review Matzen's straightforward, stuffy, and interesting book about the later part of Audrey Hepburn's life, focusing on her humanitarian work.
Daniel de Visé - 'King of The Blues'
My review of Daniel de Visé's straightforward biography of B.B. King.
Lotta Fristorp - 'Benny - Drevet, döden'
En kraftfull uppgörelse med de som fegt drev Fredriksson till sin död.
Ben Cardew - 'Daft Punk's Discovery, The Future Unfurled'
Patrick Joyce - 'Going to my Father's House'
A lovely ride through Ireland, decades, politics, religion, and England.
Michael Beyea Reagan - 'Intersectional Class Struggle - Theory and Practice'
An enchanting and richly woven thesis in book form that does its title justice.
Noam Chomsky - 'The Precipice - Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Social Change'
The latest urgent book of interviews with Noam Chomsky also includes words from Robert Pollin and Ha-Joon Chang.
Julian Sancton - 'Madhouse at the End of the Earth'
An extremely wild and entertaining adventure about humanity, life, and death. Men, huh?
Genesis P. Orridge - 'Nonbinary'
An interesting and slightly nauseating view of P. Orridge's life.
Sinéad O'Connor - 'Rememberings'
Kicking against the pricks (and other stuff), O'Connor has created a beautiful, jagged, funny, and harrowing autobiography.
Sarah Schulman - 'Let the Record Show, A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993'
A concise book around ACT UP, the HIV and AIDS epidemic, and resistence against annihilation.
Geoff Dyer - 'See/Saw'
A truly eye-opening book that shows us ways to truly see photographs. A wonderful experience.
Steven Bach - 'Final Cut'
A funny and scary ride through the making of one of the biggest monetary film flops.
Vijay Prashad - 'Washington Bullets'
This excellent book on CIA, coups, and assassinations, is weighed, loaded with fact, and is (remarkably so) briefly written.
Josh Cohen - 'How to Live What to Do'
An introspective and mind-broadening book by a psychoanalyst who writes of other books.
Laurence Rees - 'Hitler's Charisma'
Terrific writing from a masterful historian makes this another great addition to the pantheon of books about World War II and human nature.
William Zinsser - 'On Writing Well'
This style guide has sold over a million copies and is useful for writers of all sorts.
Excerpts from Rosa Rankin-Gee's 'Dreamland'
Some quotes that I collected from this wondrously human book.
Rosa Rankin-Gee - 'Dreamland'
My review of this beautiful semi-fictional novel.
Radden Patrick Keefe - 'Empire of Pain'
My review of Keefe's brilliant dissection of the Sackler opioid-epidemic legacy.
The tragedy in what happened to Martha West
An excerpt from Patrick Radden Keefe's brilliant 'Empire of Pain', a book about the Sackler legacy of death.
Tom Roston - 'The Writer's Crusade, Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five'
Youthfully sprawled but too free, a somewhat interesting portrait of Vonnegut's masterpiece.
Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever - 'World Travel'
My review of a rock ‘n’ roll-meets-Lonely Planet travel guide consisting of Bourdain’s musings on TV, modern-day comments on places that featured on his TV shows, and features from elsewhere.
normalisation
Steven Bach - 'Final Cut'
A funny and scary ride through the making of one of the biggest monetary film flops.
oligarchy
Liz Pelly - 'Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist'
A milestone achievement on how the music-streaming business has become capitalism and how we can destroy the current system.
oppression
Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, Eli Friedman, Ashley Smith - 'China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry'
palestine
Teresa Aranguren, Sandra Barrilaro - 'Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine before the Nakba'
A powerful collection of images and stories of Palestine and the opposition.
passion
Sly Stone - 'Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)'
Following decades of silence, Sly Stone releases his own words in book form.
Sinéad O'Connor - 'Rememberings'
Kicking against the pricks (and other stuff), O'Connor has created a beautiful, jagged, funny, and harrowing autobiography.
personality disorder
Patric Gagne - 'Sociopath: a Memoir'
A life told by a them-called sociopath.
philosophy
Noam Chomsky - 'A Livable Future is Possible'
A collection of interviews with mainly Noam Chomsky, where he speaks of important matters.
The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities
A big and modern collection of essays on intersectionality, edited by Jennifer C. Nash and Samantha Pinto.
Wolfram Eilenberger - 'The Visionaries'
Eilenberger presents a world-changing decade in the lives of four individuals who changed their time, themselves, and the future.
Noam Chomsky and James Kelman - 'Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime - Why Ideas Matter'
A book of letters, biography, and ideas based in correspondence, speeches, and interviews, 1988-2020.
Robert Emmet Meagher - 'Albert Camus and the Human Crisis'
A wondrous trip through Camus, covering many of his thoughts of human life while painting a magnificent portrait of a person whose mind is desperately needed in this time.
photography
Teresa Aranguren, Sandra Barrilaro - 'Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine before the Nakba'
A powerful collection of images and stories of Palestine and the opposition.
Geoff Dyer - 'See/Saw'
A truly eye-opening book that shows us ways to truly see photographs. A wonderful experience.
poetry
Adam Plunkett - 'Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry'
A very well-written biography on arguably the most well-known North American poet.
Ted Kessler - 'To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish'
A fragmented and wild retelling of and with the person who is Billy Childish.
Michelle Glazer - 'fretwork'
This poetry collection reeks of nature and repetition (in a good way) but is not memorable.
politics
Bev Boisseau Stohl - 'Chomsky and Me: A Memoir'
A thoughtful, funny, and loving memoir by Chomsky's assistant of 24 years.
Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, Eli Friedman, Ashley Smith - 'China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry'
Norman Solomon - 'War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine'
A book that shows how the USA and some of their media hide victims when necessary and bow to profit.
Noam Chomsky - 'Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time'
Chomsky talks about the most current pressing matters currently on Earth, mainly the climate catastrophe and the threat of nuclear annihilation.
Alaa Abd el-Fattah - 'You Have Not Yet Been Defeated'
A collection of writings by a leading Egyptian political activist.
Noam Chomsky and James Kelman - 'Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime - Why Ideas Matter'
A book of letters, biography, and ideas based in correspondence, speeches, and interviews, 1988-2020.
Michael Beyea Reagan - 'Intersectional Class Struggle - Theory and Practice'
An enchanting and richly woven thesis in book form that does its title justice.
Noam Chomsky - 'The Precipice - Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Social Change'
The latest urgent book of interviews with Noam Chomsky also includes words from Robert Pollin and Ha-Joon Chang.
Sarah Schulman - 'Let the Record Show, A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993'
A concise book around ACT UP, the HIV and AIDS epidemic, and resistence against annihilation.
Vijay Prashad - 'Washington Bullets'
This excellent book on CIA, coups, and assassinations, is weighed, loaded with fact, and is (remarkably so) briefly written.
prejudice
Marlo Mack - 'How to be a Girl - A Mother's Memoir of Raising her Transgender Daughter'
A podcast first, now a book; a parent's story of a child who decides its own gender.
protest
Alaa Abd el-Fattah - 'You Have Not Yet Been Defeated'
A collection of writings by a leading Egyptian political activist.
psychology
Alexander Kriss - 'Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder'
A powerful collection of images and stories of Palestine and the opposition.
racism
Sinéad O'Connor - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Viet Thanh Nguyen - 'A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir. A History. A Memorial'
An author's battle with where he grew up, who he is, and where he's at.
Michael Beyea Reagan - 'Intersectional Class Struggle - Theory and Practice'
An enchanting and richly woven thesis in book form that does its title justice.
redemption
Colum McCann, Diane Foley - 'American Mother'
A person's life before, during, and after her son is murdered and her ordeal becomes international news.
religion
Sinéad O'Connor - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Patrick Joyce - 'Going to my Father's House'
A lovely ride through Ireland, decades, politics, religion, and England.
Sinéad O'Connor - 'Rememberings'
Kicking against the pricks (and other stuff), O'Connor has created a beautiful, jagged, funny, and harrowing autobiography.
research
Csaba Szabo - 'Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research'
A calm and cool story about how one can't trust a lot of biomedicine research results and how to fix the problem.
science
Csaba Szabo - 'Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research'
A calm and cool story about how one can't trust a lot of biomedicine research results and how to fix the problem.
sex
Sinéad O'Connor - 'The Last Interview and Other Conversations'
An interview book from the 'last interview' series.
Gary Indiana - 'I Can Give You Anything but Love'
A memoir from a very talented beat-ish author.
Megan Nolan - 'Acts of Desperation'
A fiction book that borders very much on human experiences.
Emmanuel Carrère - 'Yoga'
On a silent retreat, meditation, yoga, writing, sex, and life come into a head and leaves it via these words.
sexism
The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities
A big and modern collection of essays on intersectionality, edited by Jennifer C. Nash and Samantha Pinto.
Cosey Fanni Tutti - 'Re-sisters, the Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe, and Cosey Fanni Tutti'
An inspirational and controlled explosion showing the lives of three exceptional artists and visionaries.
Michael Beyea Reagan - 'Intersectional Class Struggle - Theory and Practice'
An enchanting and richly woven thesis in book form that does its title justice.
short stories
Zach Williams - 'Beautiful Days'
A visceral short-story collection by a promising debut author.
slander
Rick Emerson - 'Unmask Alice'
The first biography about Beatrice Sparks, the author of 'Go Ask Alice' and 'Jay's Journal'.
Lotta Fristorp - 'Benny - Drevet, döden'
En kraftfull uppgörelse med de som fegt drev Fredriksson till sin död.
slavery
Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, Eli Friedman, Ashley Smith - 'China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry'
sociology
The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities
A big and modern collection of essays on intersectionality, edited by Jennifer C. Nash and Samantha Pinto.
sorrow
Sloane Crosley - 'Grief is for People'
A burglary, the death of a friend, and more.
Amy Lin - 'Here After'
A lucid account of grief.
statistics
Csaba Szabo - 'Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research'
A calm and cool story about how one can't trust a lot of biomedicine research results and how to fix the problem.
struggle
Adam Plunkett - 'Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry'
A very well-written biography on arguably the most well-known North American poet.
Ted Kessler - 'To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish'
A fragmented and wild retelling of and with the person who is Billy Childish.
Richard Balls - 'A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane McGowan'
A very straightforward and chronologically told story about McGowan's drugged and brilliant mind.
Noam Chomsky - 'A Livable Future is Possible'
A collection of interviews with mainly Noam Chomsky, where he speaks of important matters.
style
William Zinsser - 'On Writing Well'
This style guide has sold over a million copies and is useful for writers of all sorts.
suicide
Lotta Fristorp - 'Benny - Drevet, döden'
En kraftfull uppgörelse med de som fegt drev Fredriksson till sin död.
surveillance-capitalism
Sarah Wynn-Williams - 'Careless People: a Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism'
A self-protecting and scathing collection of tales about the autocratic, world-beating, and kleptocratic machine that is Facebook and, ultimately, Mark Zuckerberg.
swedish
Lotta Fristorp - 'Benny - Drevet, döden'
En kraftfull uppgörelse med de som fegt drev Fredriksson till sin död.
technology
Kate Conger and Ryan Mac - 'Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter'
The tale of a wearing-no-clothes self-appointed emperor and his 44-billion-dollar toy.
Madhumita Murgia - 'Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI'
So-called artificial intelligence as it affects real human beings.
theatre
Lotta Fristorp - 'Benny - Drevet, döden'
En kraftfull uppgörelse med de som fegt drev Fredriksson till sin död.
theft
Madhumita Murgia - 'Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI'
So-called artificial intelligence as it affects real human beings.
trans
Marlo Mack - 'How to be a Girl - A Mother's Memoir of Raising her Transgender Daughter'
A podcast first, now a book; a parent's story of a child who decides its own gender.
travel
Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever - 'World Travel'
My review of a rock ‘n’ roll-meets-Lonely Planet travel guide consisting of Bourdain’s musings on TV, modern-day comments on places that featured on his TV shows, and features from elsewhere.
ukraine
Noam Chomsky - 'Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time'
Chomsky talks about the most current pressing matters currently on Earth, mainly the climate catastrophe and the threat of nuclear annihilation.
union
Liz Pelly - 'Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist'
A milestone achievement on how the music-streaming business has become capitalism and how we can destroy the current system.
unions
Jon Melrod - 'Fighting Times, Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War'
A palpable and fruitful recant of decades of union fights for decent worker rights.
usa
Adam Plunkett - 'Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry'
A very well-written biography on arguably the most well-known North American poet.
Bev Boisseau Stohl - 'Chomsky and Me: A Memoir'
A thoughtful, funny, and loving memoir by Chomsky's assistant of 24 years.
Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, Eli Friedman, Ashley Smith - 'China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry'
Viet Thanh Nguyen - 'A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir. A History. A Memorial'
An author's battle with where he grew up, who he is, and where he's at.
Norman Solomon - 'War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine'
A book that shows how the USA and some of their media hide victims when necessary and bow to profit.
Noam Chomsky - 'Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time'
Chomsky talks about the most current pressing matters currently on Earth, mainly the climate catastrophe and the threat of nuclear annihilation.
Jon Melrod - 'Fighting Times, Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War'
A palpable and fruitful recant of decades of union fights for decent worker rights.
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad - 'The Withdrawal - Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power'
Vijay Prashad - 'Washington Bullets'
This excellent book on CIA, coups, and assassinations, is weighed, loaded with fact, and is (remarkably so) briefly written.
video
Robert P. Kolker, Nathan Abrams - 'Kubrick: An Odyssey'
A big book about Stanley Kubrick's life in making film. Expect repetition, wild speculation, and a lot of wondrous facts.
vietnam
Viet Thanh Nguyen - 'A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir. A History. A Memorial'
An author's battle with where he grew up, who he is, and where he's at.
visionary
Cosey Fanni Tutti - 'Re-sisters, the Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe, and Cosey Fanni Tutti'
An inspirational and controlled explosion showing the lives of three exceptional artists and visionaries.
war
Noam Chomsky - 'A Livable Future is Possible'
A collection of interviews with mainly Noam Chomsky, where he speaks of important matters.
Bev Boisseau Stohl - 'Chomsky and Me: A Memoir'
A thoughtful, funny, and loving memoir by Chomsky's assistant of 24 years.
Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, Eli Friedman, Ashley Smith - 'China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry'
Viet Thanh Nguyen - 'A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir. A History. A Memorial'
An author's battle with where he grew up, who he is, and where he's at.
Norman Solomon - 'War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine'
A book that shows how the USA and some of their media hide victims when necessary and bow to profit.
Noam Chomsky - 'Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time'
Chomsky talks about the most current pressing matters currently on Earth, mainly the climate catastrophe and the threat of nuclear annihilation.
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad - 'The Withdrawal - Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power'
Vijay Prashad - 'Washington Bullets'
This excellent book on CIA, coups, and assassinations, is weighed, loaded with fact, and is (remarkably so) briefly written.
Laurence Rees - 'Hitler's Charisma'
Terrific writing from a masterful historian makes this another great addition to the pantheon of books about World War II and human nature.
Tom Roston - 'The Writer's Crusade, Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five'
Youthfully sprawled but too free, a somewhat interesting portrait of Vonnegut's masterpiece.
work
Bev Boisseau Stohl - 'Chomsky and Me: A Memoir'
A thoughtful, funny, and loving memoir by Chomsky's assistant of 24 years.
Jon Melrod - 'Fighting Times, Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War'
A palpable and fruitful recant of decades of union fights for decent worker rights.
worker-rights
Liz Pelly - 'Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist'
A milestone achievement on how the music-streaming business has become capitalism and how we can destroy the current system.
world war two
Wolfram Eilenberger - 'The Visionaries'
Eilenberger presents a world-changing decade in the lives of four individuals who changed their time, themselves, and the future.
writer
Jason McBride - 'Eat Your Mind, The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker'
A breathing and passionate biography about a very important modern Western writer.
Peter Richardson - 'Savage Journey - Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo'
A pleasant read about an unpleasant and groundbreaking person.
David S. Wills - 'High White Notes - The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism'
A chronological, rhythmically bouncy, critical, statistical, and at-times interesting ride into Hunter S. Thompson's writing.
writing
Susan Griffin - 'Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something - A Writer's Guide'
A brilliant little book that packs a lot of humanistic and powerful advice for all writers.
Emmanuel Carrère - 'Yoga'
On a silent retreat, meditation, yoga, writing, sex, and life come into a head and leaves it via these words.
William Zinsser - 'On Writing Well'
This style guide has sold over a million copies and is useful for writers of all sorts.
Tom Roston - 'The Writer's Crusade, Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five'
Youthfully sprawled but too free, a somewhat interesting portrait of Vonnegut's masterpiece.
ww2
Pauline Baer de Perignon - 'The Vanished Collection'
A detective-style tale of returning stolen art to rightful owners.
Laurence Rees - 'Hitler's Charisma'
Terrific writing from a masterful historian makes this another great addition to the pantheon of books about World War II and human nature.
Tom Roston - 'The Writer's Crusade, Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five'
Youthfully sprawled but too free, a somewhat interesting portrait of Vonnegut's masterpiece.
xenophobia
Viet Thanh Nguyen - 'A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir. A History. A Memorial'
An author's battle with where he grew up, who he is, and where he's at.
Vijay Prashad - 'Washington Bullets'
This excellent book on CIA, coups, and assassinations, is weighed, loaded with fact, and is (remarkably so) briefly written.
yemen
Norman Solomon - 'War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine'
A book that shows how the USA and some of their media hide victims when necessary and bow to profit.
youth
Colin Barrett - 'Wild Houses'
A short-story radiant's first novel. It's worth reading and stands out.
yugoslavia
Norman Solomon - 'War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine'
A book that shows how the USA and some of their media hide victims when necessary and bow to profit.