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Since the initial publication of Hatchet Jobs, the groves of literary criticism have echoed with the clatter of steel on wood. From heated panels at Book Expo in Chicago to contretemps at writers' watering holes in New York, voices-even fists-have been raised.Peck's bracing philippic proposes that contemporary literature is at a dead end. Novelists have forfeited a wider audience, succumbing to identity politicking and self-reflexive postmoder...

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THE INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED THEORIST CONTENDS THAT THE SUN IS SETTING ON THE AMERICAN EMPIRE Today, the United States is a superpower that lacks true power, a world leader nobody follows and few respect, and a nation drifting dangerously amidst a global chaos it cannot control. --FROM THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN POWER The United States in decline? Its admirers and detractors alike claim the opposite: that America is now in a position of unprecede...

Zinn's classic work in its most innovative format, the long out-of-print myth-busting posters.

In this campaign diary, celebrated reporter Taibbi turns a withering eye on what he views as the kissing contest of puffed-up martinets and egomaniacal fantasists more generally known as the 2004 Democratic primaries.

Built on interviews and detailed surveys of almost a thousand recent college graduates from a diverse range of colleges and universities, this book reveals a generation facing a difficult transition to adulthood. It compels us to re-examine the aims, approaches, and achievements of higher education.

Winner of the 2003 Prix Goncourt, a novel hailed by the times literary supplement as "a delicate, elegiac tale of political failure and defeated love." A fictional story based on the final years of playwright Bertolt Brecht, "Brecht's Mistress" is a literary Cold War thriller that "recalls le Carre" ("Daily Telegraph") in its evocation of the grim world of postwar East Germany and its depiction of personal destinies intertwined with superpower...

Retired navy officer Adolfo Scilingo was the first man ever to break the Argentine military's code of silence, stunning his compatriots and the world by openly confessing his participation in the hideous practice of pushing live political dissidents out of airplanes during Argentina's dirty war.

A "compelling and shocking account" of a brutal campaign of repression in Latin America, based on interviews and previously secret documents (The Miami Herald).   Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments, led by Chile, formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry out kidnappings, torture, and political assassinations across three continents. It was an early "war on terror" initially encouraged by the CIA-which later ...

2018 American Book Award Winner A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation-and the debut of an important new social critic How much of what we understand of ourselves as "human” depends on our physical and mental abilities-how we move (or cannot move) in and interact with the world? And how much of our definition of "human” depends on its difference from "animal”? Drawing on h...

Inspired by the pathbreaking work of Howard Zinn, A People's Art History of the United States is propelled by a democratic vision of art, showing that art doesn't just belong within the confines of museums and archives. In fact, art is created every day in the street and all around us, and everyone deserves to be a part of it. Called "important” by renowned art critic Lucy Lippard, A People's Art History of the United States introduces us to...

Olmsted finds in Depression-era California the crucible for strong-arm policies against farm workers that bolstered the conservative movement" (Kirkus Reviews).   At a time when a resurgent immigrant labor movement is making urgent demands on twenty-first-century America-and when a new and virulent strain of right-wing anti-immigrant populism is roiling the political waters-Right Out of California is a fresh and profoundly relevant touchstone ...

Essays, previously published in somewhat different form by Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis.

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