Book Reviews
Like you, we love books... and the next best thing to reading books is reading about books! Below you'll find an assortment of reviews for titles that we regularly stock. Also, be sure to check out our online catalog.
Comic Books as a Path to Prison Reform: An Interview With Activist Lois Ahrens
Lois Ahrens is the Founder/Director of The Real Cost of Prisons Project (RCPP) and has been an activist/organizer for more than 40 years. First started in 2001, RCPP brings together justice activists, artists, justice policy researchers and people directly experiencing the impact of mass incarceration to work together to end the U.S. prison nation. RCPP created workshops, a website that...
Anarchist Studies review of An Anarchist FAQ
A lot of readers rightly complain at the cost of specialist books, especially those without access to university libraries or research budgets. At well over 550 double-columned pages, amounting to half a million words, the Anarchist FAQ delivers value for money. The Anarchist FAQ started as an internet resource, produced by volunteers from many continents, but its primary contributor and...
Valente's Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland...: sweet fairytale, shot through with salty tears -- magic!
Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan, has done the world an enormous service by putting The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making , Catherynne M Valente's extraordinary, award-winning free web-novel, between covers. What's more, they've augmented it with Ana Juan's wonderful illustrations, one for every chapter. Fairyland is a book that...
Bleak frames and guilt
LIT From the first page, an anonymous manifesto denouncing the pharmaceutical industry, to a bronze sculpture of a suppressed anti-Nazi headline from the Lippische Tages-Zeitung weighted down by a giant hammer and nails on the last, David Lester's graphic novel The Listener (Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 304 pages, $19.95) explores how words often fail their intended purpose, precipitating...
Economics Unmasked
It is rare in the world today to find people willing to speak the truth. More often then not, most of us simply go along with the crowds and compliment the emperor on his new clothes, despite the fact that he is naked. We worry that if we speak the truth, we will be ostracized for going against popular opinion, or be labeled stupid or ignorant. It is that fear that keeps us from...
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