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The Croatian city of Vukovar was the site of some of the worst violence in ex-Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Nora is a journalist assigned to do a puff piece on the perpetrator of a crime of passion - a Croatian high school teacher who fell in love with one of her students, a Serb, and is now in prison for having murdered her husband. But Nora herself is the daughter of a man who was murdered years earlier under mysterious circumstances. And s...

Experts from the frontlines of global policy tackle the implications of Covid-19Transformative change can come out of the COVID-19 crisis, which has exposed everything that's wrong with decades of the world's governments betting on militarism, competition and wealth creation. A return to sanity and humane governance is still possible. We need a pandemic pivot. Both a sobering analysis of the present moment and a hopeful cry on behalf of the po...

An extraordinary coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world, now in a Spanish language edition. / Una extraordinaria novela de iniciación sobre una mujer joven que encuentra su voz en el mundo ahora en una edición en Español.On the last day of 1964, fifteen-year-old Ana Canción maries Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, in the Dominican countryside. The following day she becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a one-bedroom i...

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An intersex narrator coming of age in a libertarian commune sets the stage for this English-language debut, a story that reveals and subverts contemporary conceptions of normative sexuality, capitalist culture, and environmental degradation.Winner, Prix du Livre Inter, 2019Shortlisted for the Prix Femina, Prix Medicis, Prix de FloreLonglisted for the Prix France-Culture, Prix WeplerFarah moves into Liberty House--an arcadia, a community in har...

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A dazzling historical novel set in the sixth century AD, from I, Claudius author Robert Graves, and with a new introduction by novelist Lydia Kiesling.The sixth-century Roman Empire is a dangerous place, threatened on all frontiers by invaders. But soon the attacking armies of Vandals, Goths, and Persians grow to fear and respect the name of one man, Belisarius: horseman, archer, swordsman, and military commander of genius. As Belisarius trium...

A poetic and intimate novel that explores what it means to build one s own identity whilst also confronting the past.

How the internet transformed education and knowledge in the 21st century.Peter B. Kaufman is a visionary of the video age who, from his perch at Columbia and now MIT, sees what he calls "the Monsterverse" for what it is--an Internet dominated by purely commercial interests--and how, just maybe, we can change that. A publisher, teacher, and videographer, Kaufman describes how recapturing control over moving images and recorded sound can transfo...

Imaginary advice columnist Waldo Mellon offers humor and wisdom as a balm for the anxieties of life.Dear Abby, Dear Ann Landers... make room for Dear Waldo, the imaginary advice columnist of the woes and foibles of human existence from screenwriter Steve Adams. "Dear Waldo, "My moron brother Lance is obsessed with the idea that there's millions and millions of other planets with life on them. How do I break the news to him it isn't so? "Since...

The only graphic novel-style biography of the Presidential Contender.National Bestseller updated for 2020 with 24 new pages taking Bernie into the 2020 election.Ted Rall's Bernie explores the personal and political development of a man who burst onto the national stage in 2015-rallying Americans and shaking up the Democratic Party-after decades in Congress. He's leading the polls, but win or lose the Democratic nomination for 2020, he's settin...

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A new book by the author of A is for Activist is a rhyming, boldly illustrated vision of a better world.When you go to a marchAnd raise your sign highYou'll make people smilewho thought you were shyAnd you'll make people wonder, does that kid really know why?You DO know of courseThat's why you are thereYou're there to say STOP!What's happening's not fairThen they say, we know what you're againstEnd poverty stop war...But okay then what are you...

A tie-in to the new documentary, Roy's World, directed by Rob Christopher narrated by Lili Taylor, Matt Dillon and Willem Dafoe, these stories comprise one of Barry Gifford's most enduring works, his homage to the gritty Chicago landscape of his youthBarry Gifford has been writing the story of America in acclaimed novel after acclaimed novel for the last half-century. At the same time, he's been writing short stories, his "Roy stories, " that ...

The new and improved "Censored, " detailing the top censored stories and media analysis of 2020.Our nation's oldest news-monitoring group, Project Censored, refreshes its longstanding yearbook series, Censored, with State of the Free Press 2021. This edition offers a more succinct and comprehensive survey of the most important but underreported news stories of 2020, in addition to a comparative analysis of the current state of corporate and in...

The first Western noir by Barry Gifford, "a killer fuckin' writer." (David Lynch)Based on historical events in 1851, this Western noir novella traces the struggle of the first integrated Native American tribe to establish themselves on the North American continent. After escaping the Oklahoma relocation camps they had been placed in following their forced evacuation from Florida, the Seminole Indians banded with fugitive slaves from the Americ...

Every vote counts. Or does it? The most explosive book yet from the bestselling author who "upsets all the right people" (Noam Chomsky).How will Trump steal 2020? It's not a question of will he or won't he, but rather how his administration is already doing it by purging you from the voter rolls. In How Trump Stole 2020 bestselling author and journalist Greg Palast reveals the methods behind the mendacity. Palast was the first reporter to unco...

An exquisite novel of North Africans in Paris by "one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature"*Paris, summer of 2010. Zahira is a Moroccan prostitute late in her career whose generosity is her way of defying her humiliation and misery. Her friend Aziz, a male prostitute, admires her and emulates her. Aziz is transitioning from his past as a man into the womanhood of his future, and asks Zahira to help him choose a name fo...