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Experiencing Nirvana is a photo journal and an inside look into a crucial eight-day period in the touring life of the…

Celebrate whatever independence you've got by reading some books that'll set off mental fireworks and get you moving and…

This is a novel that reads as a page-turning, barely-fictionalized memoir about squatting in New York City in the 90s. A…

In 1979, Bruce Pavitt moved to Olympia, WA, and began programming a show called Subterranean Pop on local community…

This is the book that predicted the 1992 LA riots. Mike Davis gives us a full bore analysis of Los Angeles culture,…

This updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water explores more than a century of both public and…

We all know that history is written by the winners—and the powerful—but how much of it is actually fiction? And who…

It's one of the biggest fights against injustice you've never even heard about. In 1891, coal companies in eastern…

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's spree of torture, sexual abuse, and murder of children in the 1960s was one of the most…

Primo Tapia de la Cruz (1885–1926) was born into the indigenous Tarascan community of Naraja, Mexico. While working as…

Po’pay was a Tewa spiritual leader who led the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, an anticolonial movement to remove the Spanish…

Christianity interprets Jesus as identical to Christ, but is the historical Jesus the same as the supposed Christian…

Valerie Solanas may have been dismissed but will never be forgotten. She has become, perhaps unwittingly, a figurehead…

Most of us probably think of disasters as times when social order breaks down, when neighbors turn on each other, when…

One of punk’s most significant political achievements was to expose the operations of power in British entertainment…

How can we decolonize the world when colonialist attitudes of self and other are so deeply embedded in our psyches? Open…

Contrary to what Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine…

From the bestselling author of 1491, this is a deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the…

From the subway to the skyscraper, from Manhattan’s financial district to the Long Island suburbs, every inch of New…

In this dark and comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewart has tracked down…

What anarchists demand from art is what they demand from all aspects of their political lives: that it should, as much…

In 1984 members of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) refused to unload South African cargo off the…

One Thousand Mustaches is both a lighthearted cultural history and an earnest style manual. It's the story of the…

We agree, these are frustrating times and it feels like there is yet a lot of work to do towards social justice. So…

Stealing All Transmissions is, above all, a love story. It’s the story of how The Clash fell in love with America, and…

Matilde Landa (1904-1942) was a famous militant of the PCE (Spanish Communist Party) who fought in the Spanish Civil War…