Che Guevara left Argentina at 22. At 21, Belén Fernández left the U.S. and didn’t look back. Alone, far off the beaten path in places like Syria and Tajikstan, she reflects on what it means to be an American in a largely American-made mess of a world. More

Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour stands on the brink of power, promising a fundamental re-ordering of British politics. But what, in practice, will this entail? How can a radical government stand up to an establishment that is hostile to any significant redistribution of wealth and power? People Get Ready! dives into the nitty gritty of what’s needed to bring about transformative change. More

Lawyers regularly take the lead in polls as the most unpopular of all professions, ahead, even, of bankers and journalists. But the lawyers featured in this book are different. The stories they tell and the cases they fought are admirable and often inspiring. More

Dream or Nightmare is a book of left wing strategy like no other: It proposes that, to compete with the right, progressives cannot depend on reason and hard fact. They must also deploy drama in the battle of ideas. More

The Balfour Declaration was to be critical in determining the history of the Middle East, from the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 to the present day. And yet, despite its importance, its true origins remain obscure. More

Andrés Manuel López Obrador will become the next President of Mexico. AMLO, a progressive politician often compared to Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders, participated previously in the 2006 and 2012 Mexican presidential elections. His decisive victory in the 2018 election seems likely to be related to the reaction of his fellow countrymen to the election of another outspoken politician, Donald Trump. More

In these short vignettes, Buddhist teacher Cuong Lu shares his insight into the prisoner’s mindset, something with implications for us all, whether or not we are in a conventional jail. More

Fred W. McDarrah was the ultimate chronicler of New York’s downtown scene in the 1960s and 70s, and therefore of a signal moment in gay culture when he captured the community around the Stonewall uprising fifty years ago. 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 collection of essays, Jeffrey C. Isaac argues that the threat posed to liberal democracy by Trump warrants a strong democratic response, articulating a politics that bridges the gap between liberalism and leftism. More

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

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