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The Other

by Ryszard Kapuściński

The master of literary reportage reflects on the West’s encounters with the non-European
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

by Mike Davis

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.’s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiracies

14 posts
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

by James Bridle

How the Information Age destroys knowledge

3 posts
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class

by Mike Davis

A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States

11 posts

Street Fighting Years

by Tariq Ali

One of the world’s best-known radicals relives the early years of the protest movement

18 posts
What Goes Up

by Michael Sorkin

A radical architect examines the changing fortunes of the contemporary city
Revolution in the Air

by Max Elbaum

The first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968

11 posts
The Production of Money

by Ann Pettifor

Why we misunderstand the nature of money, and what we can do about it

7 posts

An Act of State

by William F. Pepper

The definitive account of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination

5 posts
The Great Cowboy Strike

by Mark A. Lause

When cowboys were workers and battled their bosses
Alt-America

by David Neiwert

The story of the remarkable resurgence of right-wing extremists in the United States

6 posts
Age of Folly

by Lewis H. Lapham

America’s leading essayist on the frantic retreat of democracy, in the fire and smoke of the war on terror

10 posts

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