Literary grandmaster Robert Coover has long been obsessed with myth, decay, sex and narrative, time and technology: and these themes come together in this short, dark fable that centers around the once-grand, now-aged Princess. More

Wolfgang Kaleck, best known as Edward Snowden’s lawyer, is a human rights activist extraordinaire. For more than two decades, he has travelled the world to fight alongside those suffering injustice at the hands of powerful players. More

Based on in-depth interviews with the people involved, this is the story of how a few dedicated voters took up the issue of disenfranchisement and won—and how activists around the country can do the same. More

One of the great populist leaders of the left, Lula—together with Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn and Andrés Manuel López Obrador—reignited a worldwide movement of progressives. Now he sits in prison, convicted of “passive corruption.” More

In this energetic, focused book, a group of five accomplished writers—Eve Ensler, Danish Husain, Burhan Sönmez, Lara Vapnyar, and Ninotchka Rosca—confronts five would-be dictators. More

When white nationalists and their supporters clashed with counter-demonstrators in the college town of Charlottesville over the removal of a Confederate statue, resulting in the death of one anti-racist activist and the wounding of thirty-five more, a signal moment in American history was reached. More

First published in 1971 in Chile, where the entire third printing was dumped into the ocean by the Chilean Navy and bonfires were held to destroy earlier editions, How to Read Donald Duck reveals the capitalist ideology at work in our most beloved cartoons. More

Money and Class in America is a caustic, and often hilarious, portrait of a segment of the American population who have become only further removed—both in terms of wealth and social awareness—from everyone else. More

In often dreamlike peregrinations around his home towns of Liverpool, London and New York Andy Merrifield reflects on what cities mean to us and how they shape the way we think. More

Creating Chaos explores the covert use of political warfare from the Cold War to the 21st Century. This is the dark side of statecraft, involving hacks, cell phones, and computers—and encompassing most of the developed world. More

Metaphysical Graffiti is a provocative, inflammatory, hilarious, but ultimately serious book about not only the essential questions of rock, but also the deeper, metaphysical roots of those questions. More

In a breathless cascade of poetry and prose, celebrated performance artist Karen Finley here lays bare the psychosexual obsessions that have burst to the surface of today’s American politics. More

This rich selection of writing by the late Mike Marqusee captures the kaleidoscopic mind of a polymath who delighted in deploying one sphere of knowledge to provide exhilarating insight into others. More

Weaving together the existing literature with new insights, The Wrong Story lays bare the flawed ways the media present the Palestine–Israel issue. More

Amidst the growing sense that Palestinians’ long struggle for self-determination has reached an impasse, Moment of Truth takes stock and weighs paths forward. More