Books
Books that changed the world: Historians assess 100 years of International Publishers
October 29, 2025With McCarthy-style witch-hunts once again on the horizon, institutions like International Publishers, which incubate free thinking, social critique, and dissent, are all the more valuable.
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‘Positive Obsession’ review: Riveting biography offers intimate look at Afrofuturist icon Octavia Butler
October 28, 2025New book explores the personal journals of the novelist, offering deeper look at her struggles for recognition, her working style, and her views on American political realities.
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‘Why Fascists Fear Teachers’: How far-right attacks education to destroy democracy
October 16, 2025The author explains how controlling education through attacks on teachers and schools is meant to control how Americans think.
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‘Burning Down the House’: Riveting book explores systemic and historical trauma
October 1, 2025The author uses the genre to ask urgent, philosophical questions about power, justice, and resistance
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‘The Long Walk’ review: Brutal and riveting expression of extremism and indoctrination
September 12, 2025If you’re looking for escapism with this Stephen King adaptation, look elsewhere. This movie definitely holds a mirror up to our society and its extreme political divisions and violence.
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