I’m interested in a multitude of things, including social justice, socialism, history, poetry, magical realism (fiction), capitalism, race and class struggle, plus stuff like wine, baseball and music.
So mostly non-fiction, though I read maybe two novels per year and maybe one poetry collection.
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80% complete! Steven Ray has read 12 of 15 books.
A global panorama of liberal democracies from a renowned social theorist
Classical liberalism regarded universal …
This guy writes so well. He makes the subject matter very accessible to the average reader.
The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Adorno's major work, a defense of modernism that is …
A dual-language (French and English) publication of Charles Baudelaire's masterpiece of poetry, 'Les Fleurs du mal' includes nearly all of …
This volume brings together sixteen interviews from New Left Review in a group portrait of …
just arrived on my bookshelf.
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points …
Throughout the 2000s Latin America formed the leading edge of antineoliberal resistance. But what is …
Been wanting to read this book for years. So far, it's been very much worth the wait.
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism is a 2010 non-fiction book by economist Ha-Joon Chang. The book offers …
A 160-page journal published every two months from London, New Left Review analyses world politics, …
Another worthwhile set of essays. I always learn when I read NLR. Which is kinda the point.
I made need to hide or otherwise obscure the book cover, else I may throw up every time I look at it.
"Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I am going to go fulfill my …
A very timely read, Unbuild Walls charts the evolution of immigration in the U.S., including ICE and the prison industrial complex on one side and immigration reform and prison abolition activists on the other.
With twenty years of activism, the author describes the injustices she's seen and the steps that have been taken to counter them. Not all succeeded, but many did. It's hard to find a lot of optimism in the current environment we find ourselves in, but the lessons in this book do offer reasons to be encouraged.
Very recommended. Available in multiple formats from Haymarket, which has tons of great titles in their back catalog.
A 160-page journal published every two months from London, New Left Review analyses world politics, …
Another issue of this great radical periodical.
Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs …
Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to …
In the end, a very worthwhile read which presents good arguments about the cause of the climate crisis (Capitalism) and what must be done to provide a just and equitable society which benefits all. Recommended.
"Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I am going to go fulfill my …
A very timely read, given all that's going on today with ICE, Homeland Security and immigrant deportations.
