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A showcase of the lyrics that G.W. Sok wrote during the 3 decades that he was with the band The Ex, this musical…

A high school senior, Abe seems to have it all: a Division I track scholarship, a hot girlfriend, and a loving and…

The euphoric idealism of grassroots and the tragic reality of revolutionary failure are at the center of this…

The drug war is less about cocaine or marijuana than it is about social, economic, and territorial control. In Drug War…

During the 1960s, Nicolas Walter was a militant in the British nuclear disarmament movement-especially for its…

What we in the United States call Western Civilization has a consistent history of inhuman cruelty. Beginning with the…

In Keywords (1976), Raymond Williams devised a "vocabulary" that reflected the vast social transformations of the…

The stunning results of a strange collaboration between iconic folk singing hero Woody Guthry and a US government…

As members of the Greatest Generation, our grandfathers are not only defined by the Depression but also by their heroic…

This is a cute book about cute little houses. It's well-done, beautifully photographed, and is a good tool for informing…

It's an unfortunate fact of life that many of us “outsource” basic tasks. Food is instant, ready-made, and processed…

Imagine knowing what the brain craves and what keeps readers transfixed. The vast majority of writing advice focuses on…

Countless books and blogs have extolled the virtues of the Cat Lady—now photographer David Williams celebrates…

Give your garbage a second life. Composting is a little complicated, but Kim Pezza, author of Backyard Farming:…

The adaptation of the 2012 movie Wadjda about a girl who wants nothing more than to buy a bicycle—which was, btw the…

Police murders of Black people no longer go unnoticed in the public eye and the violence of racism can no longer be…

As an adolescent, Justin Pearson moved with his mother from “Shit Creek Phoenix, AZ” to sunny San Diego after his…

In Anarchy Evolution, Greg Gaffin, founding member of Bad Religion, collaborates with Steve Olson to investigate the…

Book two of the Wildwood trilogy is Under Wildwood. This one is 576 pages with 80 illustrations. It's created by life +…

When Joshua Ploeg told us he was working on a full-color vegan chocolate cookbook for another publisher, we got super…

Garden! For the bees! And the other pollinators! Whether or not you actually keep bees, you can still give them—and…