Sinners and Strivers

  I  am once again plagued by books with important stories to tell. Late-stage capitalism has let loose a torrent of books by journalists an...

  The American left maintains the constant goal of articulating a better world. This means reshaping the American perspective of what is pol...

  "Don't be against yourself. There is enough cruelty in the world as it is." Set in 1944 Newark, New Jersey in the height of ...

I was at Powell's Books in Portland, specifically in their politics section, when it hit me: looking for new books to read always makes ...

Written in devastatingly beautiful prose, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things starts with an immense tragedy - the drowning of a you...

Ok, honestly? I bought Training for the Uphill Athlete because of the pictures. I'm not kidding. I was in Munising this past Feb (se...

If you want to know what the Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein is all about, look at what she tells Gail Kastner, a living survivor of one ...