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From the Lower East Side to Hollywood

by Paul Buhle
A lively, extensively illustrated history of the widespread influence of Jews on American popular culture through the twentieth century.
1 post
Imperial Crusades

by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
Chronicles the lies from Washington and London, and the under-reported carnage of imperial wars.
4 posts
Culture in the Age of Three Worlds

by Michael Denning
Denning analyses the political and intellectual battles over the meanings of culture.
2 posts
Tyranny in America

by Neal Wood

Addresses the chief maladies afflicting the US and argues that change is necessary.

1 post

The Boom and the Bubble

by Robert Brenner

Brenner demonstrates that the new economy was always a fragile phenomenon.

22 posts
The Pig and the Skyscraper

by Marco d’Eramo

“Serious-minded and acutely insightful social analysis.”—Bookwatch

1 post
Irish on the Inside

by Tom Hayden
Tom Hayden explores the losses wrought by Irish American conformism.
A Way of Life That Does Not Exist

by Colin Samson
The tragedies of the Innu, and how some have resisted assimilation.

The Clash of Fundamentalisms

by Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali dissects both Islamic and Western fundamentalism.

27 posts
Cuba on My Mind

by Román de la Campa

“Empathic and critical, connected and removed, knowing and bewildered.”—Raritan Review

2 posts
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

8 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?
17 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.
4 posts

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