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The Attack Queers

by Richard Goldstein

Charts and critiques the rise of the gay right.
The Business of Books

by André Schiffrin

“A riveting chronicle of the rise and fall of the American reader.”—Village Voice

6 posts
Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City

by Mike Davis
Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River?
12 posts
Canaries on the Rim

by Chip Ward
A quest to understand the secret history of ecocide in Utah.

A Fierce Hatred of Injustice

by Winston James and Claude McKay

The first detailed consideration of McKay's formative years, the themes and politics of his early poetry, and his pioneering use of Jamaican creole.

1 post
Five Days That Shook the World

by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
"In the annals of popular protest in America, these have been shining hours, achieved entirely outside the conventional arena of orderly protest,...
2 posts
Al Gore

by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
What sort of a man is Al Gore?
2 posts
Whiteout

by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair

The explosive truth behind the CIA and its dirtiest secrets

1 post

Mechanic Accents

by Michael Denning

“One of the most illuminating, theoretically informed accounts of popular fiction.”—Terry Eagleton

2 posts
NASA/TREK

by Constance Penley
How Star Trek came to represent both scientific perfection and sexual experimentation in modern-day America.
3 posts
Labor and the Course of American Democracy

by Charles Bergquist
“Groundbreaking political and ideological analysis.”—Carol A. Smith, UC Davis
The Thirty Years’ Wars

by Andrew Kopkind

In Boston in the 1970s he wrote articles and movie reviews for a range of publications and did regular political commentary for WBCN radio. With...

2 posts

Seven Minutes

by Norman M. Klein
“An important contribution to the history of American popular culture.”—American Historical Review
Anything But Mexican

by Rodolfo F. Acuña

“Will stand amongst the classics in Chicano Studies.”—Teresa Cordova, University of New Mexico

8 posts
The Assassination of New York

by Robert Fitch

“Nothing that has been written about New York ... comes close.”—New York Newsday

6 posts
Twice the Work of Free Labor

by Alex Lichtenstein

“Powerful, painstakingly researched, gracefully written.”—Robin D.G. Kelley

5 posts

Circus Americanus

by Ralph Rugoff
“A carnival of New World wonders.”—Jon Savage
The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life

by Andrew Ross

The return of Malthusian ideas about scarcity, in the name of environmentalism.

4 posts
Towards the Abolition of Whiteness

by David R. Roediger
Counting the costs of whiteness in the American past and present.
12 posts
Where the Boys Are

by Van Gosse

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