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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...

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...

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 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...

Luis J. Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation. His passion and wisdom inspire us with the message that we must come together if we are to move forward. As he writes in the preface, "Like millions of Americans, I'm demanding a new vision, a qualitatively different direction, for this country. One for the shared well-being of...

Winner of the Prix RenaudotShortlisted for the Prix GoncourtElisabeth is a woman whose curiosity and passion far exceed the borders of her quiet middle-class life. She befriends a neighbor, organizes a small dinner party. And then, quite suddenly, finds herself embarked with him on an adventure that is one part vaudeville and one part high tragedy. A quiet novel of manners turns into a police procedural thriller. Her motivations for risking ev...

The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and readers written by Kurt Vonnegut's former student.

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Mumia Abu-Jamal has been incarcerated on Pennsylvania's death row for over two decades. His case has generated more controversy and received more attention, both national and international, than that of any other inmate currently under sentence of death in the United States of America.Mumia Abu Jamal, black, was convicted and sentenced to death in July 1982 for the murder of white police officer Daniel Faulkner on December 9, 1981. He has stea...

Footloose and broke, the unnamed narrator of Gone Tomorrow hops on a plane without asking questions when his director friend offers him a role in an art film set in Colombia. But from the moment he arrives at the airport in Bogotá, only to witness a policeman beat a beggar half to death, it becomes clear that this will not be the story of gritty bohemians triumphing against the odds. The director, Paul Grosvenor, seems more interested in manip...

This story, if it is one, deserves the closure of a suicide, perhaps even the magisterial finality of what is usually called a novel, but the remnants of that faraway time offer nothing more than a taste of damp ashes, a feeling of indeterminacy, and the obdurate inconclusiveness of passing time." So writes the unnamed narrator of Horse Crazy, looking back on a season of madness and desire. The first novel from the brilliant, protean Gary Indi...

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