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.
Review of Volume 2 of the Anarchist FAQ
Back before many people had discovered the internet a small group of anarchists including this writer began work on the Anarchist FAQ. We were tired of having to provide the same basic explanations over and over as new people joined the news net group, alt.soc.anarchism, so we began the FAQ so newcomers could be referred to it. I soon dropped out of the project as did most of the others...
Book Review: Nevada by Imogen Binnie
I was given a copy of the e-book of Nevada by Imogen Binnie to review by my friends at Topside Press. Imogen is one of those friends-in-law people I know to be awesome but don’t know personally, and I was excited to read her first novel. I seriously couldn’t put it down! Nevada was the first work of fiction I’ve read in a long time that made me want to keep reading...
A Dozen Great Zine Anthologies
Totally, totally essential for anyone with anything approaching a punk rock bone in their body. In more recent years, Iggy has contributed to This American Life and written a politically-minded tome featuring a back quote by none other than Howard Zinn. To those of us who know it, however, Scam will always be his legacy. This collection of the zine’s first four issues features plenty...
A Dozen Great Zine Anthologies
Just about everything you could ever want from a zine collection: reproductions of hand-photocopied layouts, the typewritten lists, scribbled comics about bugs and stuff, feminist politics and memoir all rolled into one. Oh, and an alphabetical arrangement of the contents collected herein. I think what really enamored me to Cindy Crabb’s much-loved zine, however, is the author’s...
A Dozen Great Zine Anthologies
Al Burian’s name invariably comes up in every list of great zines. And there’s no question why, really -- he’s one of the most talented writers ever to sit down and bang out a zine. Unlike most authors in the medium, there’s no shortage of ways to get Burian’s work, but this collection is really the most logical, for that rare series that came into the world...
Browse By Section
- Activism (14)
- Anarchism (18)
- Appalachia (4)
- Art, Music & Poetry (8)
- Biography (10)
- Children's Books (6)
- Contemporary Radicalism (19)
- Cookbooks (10)
- Cooperativism (5)
- Do It Yourself (5)
- Earth & Animal Liberation (4)
- Ecology & Herbalism (3)
- Economics (20)
- Education (5)
- Fiction (27)
- Food Politics (6)
- Gardening (5)
- Gender & Sexuality (11)
- Graphic Novels (21)
- Health (1)
- History (15)
- Homesteading (2)
- Latin America (5)
- Local Authors (2)
- Pirates & Ninjas (3)
- Prisons & Policing (3)
- Race Theory (1)
- Science & Technology (4)
- Social Theory & Criticism (12)
- Spanish Language (0)
- Unsorted (1)
- Young Adult (4)
- Zine Related (4)