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Author(s): Lidia Yuknavitch
Published: April 1, 2011
Category: Books
Length: 312 pages
Genre(s): LGBT, Memoir, Feminism
"From the debris of her troubled early life, Lidia Yuknavitch weaves an astonishing tale of survival. A kind of memoir that is also a paean to the pursuit of beauty, self-expression, desire - for men and women - and the exhilaration of swimming, The Chronology of Water lays a life bare."
Author(s): Joan Nestle
Published: 1992
Category: Books
Length: 502 pages
Genre(s): Feminism, Nonfiction, LGBT
"In this 'canonical' anthology of Butch-Femme identities, Joan Nestle traces 200 years of lesbian history, from letters to memoirs to short stories. Nestle surveys a decade of the attempt to reconstruct and understand the meaning and value of butch-femme relations for the contemporary lesbian, drawing on oral history, fiction, poetry, and fantasy."
Author(s): Hélène Cixous
Published: 1975
Category: Essays
Length: 20 pages
Genre(s): Feminism, Politics, Nonfiction
"In this essay, Cixous issues an ultimatum: that women can either read and choose to stay trapped in their own bodies by a language that does not allow them to express themselves, or they can use the body as a way to communicate. She describes a writing style, écriture féminine, that she says attempts to move outside of the conventional rules found in patriarchal systems."
Author(s): Audre Lorde
Published: 1984
Category: Books
Length: 190 pages
Genre(s): Race, LGBT, Feminism, Politics
"A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment among minority women writers and the absolute necessity to explicate the concept of difference—difference according to sex, race, and economic status. The title Sister Outsider finds its source in her poetry collection The Black Unicorn (1978). These poems and the essays in Sister Outsider stress Lorde's oft-stated theme of continuity, particularly of the geographical and intellectual link between Dahomey, Africa, and her emerging self."
Author(s): Noam Chomsky
Published: 1989
Category: Books
Length: 432 pages
Genre(s): Politics, Nonfiction, History
"In his 1988 CBC Massey Lecture, Noam Chomsky inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control. Specific cases are illustrated in detail, using the U.S. media primarily but also media in other societies. Chomsky considers how the media might be democratized (as part of the general problem of developing more democratic institutions) in order to offer citizens broader and more meaningful participation in social and political life."
Author(s): Simone de Beauvoir
Published: 1949 (2009 Translation)
Category: Books
Length: 746 pages
Genre(s): Feminism, Nonfiction, Philosophy
"Revolutionary and incendiary, 'The Second Sex' is one of the earliest attempts to confront human history from a feminist perspective. It won de Beauvoir many admirers and just as many detractors. Today, many regard this massive and meticulously researched masterwork as not only as pillar of feminist thought but of twentieth-century philosophy in general."
Author(s): Leslie Feinberg
Published: March 1, 1993
Category: Books
Length: 308 pages
Genre(s): LGBT, Historical fiction
"Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Goldberg, a masculine girl growing up in the 'Ozzie and Harriet' McCarthy era and coming out as a young butch lesbian in the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-collar town."
Author(s): Judith Butler
Published: 1986
Category: Essays
Length: 15 pages
Genre(s): Feminism, Nonfiction, Philosophy
"Judith Butler addresses Simone de Beauvoir’s famous assertion that 'one is not born, but, rather, becomes a woman'."
Author(s): Donna Haraway
Published: 1988
Category: Essays
Length: 25 pages
Genre(s): Feminism, Philosophy
"Haraway argues for a new understanding of 'objectivity' using a feminist lens of analysis."
Author(s): Donna Haraway
Published: 1985
Category: Essays
Length: 43 pages
Genre(s): Feminism, Philosophy, Politics
"Haraway’s ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology from a leftist and feminist perspective using the metaphor of the cyborg to champion socialist, postmodern, and anti-identitarian politics."
Author(s): Jasbir Puar
Published: October 2012
Category: Essays
Length: 6,634 words
Genre(s): Feminism, Philosophy, Politics, Intersectionality
"In what follows, I offer some preliminary thoughts on the limits and possibilities of intersectionality and assemblage and what might be gained by thinking them through and with each other. What are the strengths of each in the realms of theory, political organizing, legal structures, and method?"
Author(s): Heidi I. Hartmann
Published: 1979
Category: Essays
Length: 33 pages
Genre(s): Feminism, Politics, Nonfiction
"This paper argues that the relation between marxism and feminism has, in all the forms it has so far taken, been an unequal one. While both marxist method and feminist analysis are necessary to an understanding of capitalist societies, and of the position of women within them, in fact feminism has consistently been subordinated. The paper presents a challenge to both marxist and radical feminist work on the 'woman question', and argues that what it is necessary to analyse is the combination of patriarchy and capitalism. It is a paper which, we hope, should stimulate considerable debate."
Author(s): Soo Mi Lee
Published: Fall 2015
Category: Essays (Dissertation)
Length: 109 pages
Genre(s): Feminism, Religion, Culture
"This dissertation examines the construction of women’s autobiographical voices within literature, particularly those produced for Japanese-reading audiences by Zainichi women. Zainichi typically refers to a specific group of “foreigners” residing in postwar Japan—Korean residents who can trace their diasporic roots to Japan’s colonial rule of Korea (1910-1945). Throughout postwar Japanese history, the Zainichi experience has been a complicated one, as it has been informed by racism in Japan as well as by Japan and Korea’s postwar relationship. My dissertation looks at literary arts produced by Zainichi women, with a special focus on the illocutionary power of autobiographical expression as a means to promote social change and equality in contemporary Japanese society."
Author(s): Susan S. Lanser
Published: 1989
Category: Essays
Length: 27 pages
Genre(s): Literary analysis, Race, Feminism, Politics
"Lanser examines the cultural legacy of 'The Yellow Wallpaper' as a feminist text and relays a reading of the story as a manifestion of racial anxiety."
Author(s): bell hooks
Published: 1981
Category: Books
Length: 205 pages
Genre(s): Race, Feminism, Politics
"A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between various forms of oppression. Ain't I a Woman examines the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism within the recent women's movement, and black women's involvement with feminism."
Author(s): Combahee River Collective
Published: 1977
Category: Essays
Length: 21 pages
Genre(s): Race, Feminism, Politics
"The Combahee River Collective Statement was issued in 1977. An essential piece of feminist theory and Black/womanist feminism."
Author(s): Bonnie Burstow
Published: October 8, 1992
Category: Books
Length: 320 pages
Genre(s): Feminism, Psychiatry, Politics
"With an emphasis on violence against women and on women's responses to it - such as depression, splitting and eating disturbances - this volume furthers the radicalization of feminist therapy. It serves as a comprehensive introduction for trainees and as an ongoing resource for social service workers and therapists."
Author(s): Bonnie Burstow
Published: 2005
Category: Essays
Length: 17 pages
Genre(s): Psychiatry, Politics
"Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the few DSM categories that was created and became widely accepted as a result of people other than psychiatrists wanting it. Even progressive practitioners tend to assume that it is essentially well constructed and benign. This article shows otherwise. The article fundamentally problematizes PTSD. It demonstrates that the category PTSD is confused, reductionist, contradictory, and arbitrary and that it pathologizes purposeful and valuable coping strategies commonly used by people who are traumatized. It demonstrates, in addition, that the category does not even serve the purpose for which progressive therapists have engaged with the diagnosis and that it cannot simply be 'corrected.'"
Author(s): Rayne Fisher-Quann
Published: June 10, 2022
Category: Essays
Length: 4523 words
Genre(s): Feminism, Politics
"abuse, aesthetics, and assigning deviance to difficult women"
Author(s): Clementine Morrigan
Published: 2017
Category: Essays
Length: 9,184 words
Genre(s): Psychiatry, Politics
"Self-harm, suicide attempts, disordered eating, addiction, and other forms of 'acting out' are associated with the trauma of surviving violence. While these behaviours are pathologized as symptoms of mental illness, they can be understood, instead, as strategies of resistance against violence."
Author(s): Jonathan M. Metzl
Published: 2010
Category: Books
Length: 246 pages
Genre(s): Race, Politics, History, Psychiatry
"The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But a very different civil rights history evolved at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Ionia, Michigan. In The Protest Psychosis, psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl tells the shocking story of how schizophrenia became the diagnostic term overwhelmingly applied to African American protesters at Ionia—for political reasons as well as clinical ones. Expertly sifting through a vast array of cultural documents, Metzl shows how associations between schizophrenia and blackness emerged during the tumultuous decades of the 1960s and 1970s—and he provides a cautionary tale of how anxieties about race continue to impact doctor-patient interactions in our seemingly postracial America."
Author(s): Assata Shakur
Published: 1987
Category: Books
Length: 274 pages
Genre(s): Politics, Memoir, Race
"This intensely personal and political autobiography belies the fearsome image of JoAnne Chesimard long projected by the media and the state. With wit and candor, Assata Shakur recounts the experiences that led her to a life of activism and portrays the strengths, weaknesses, and eventual demise of Black and White revolutionary groups at the hand of government officials."
Author(s): Angela Y. Davis
Published: August 5, 2003
Category: Books
Length: 128 pages
Genre(s): Politics, Race, Nonfiction
"With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison."
Author(s): James Baldwin
Published: July 29, 1979
Category: Essays
Length: 1344 words
Genre(s): Race, Politics
"Language, incontestably, reveals the speaker. Language, also, far more dubiously, is meant to define the other - and, in this case, the other is refusing to be defined by a language that has never been able to recognize him."
Author(s): Akinyele Omowale Umoja
Published: April 22, 2013
Category: Books
Length: 336 pages
Genre(s): Race, Politics, History, Nonfiction
"Ranging from Reconstruction to the Black Power period, this thoroughly and creatively researched book effectively challenges long-held beliefs about the Black Freedom Struggle. It should make it abundantly clear that the violence/nonviolence dichotomy is too simple to capture the thinking of Black Southerners about the forms of effective resistance."
Author(s): Michael Parenti
Published: June 1, 1997
Category: Books
Length: 166 pages
Genre(s): Politics, Nonfiction
"Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology—terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti’s trademark."
Author(s): Karl Marx
Published: September 14, 1867
Category: Books
Length: 1152 pages
Genre(s): Politics, Economics, Philosophy, Nonfiction
"Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids some of the mistakes that have marred earlier versions and seeks to do justice to the literary qualities of the work. The introduction is by Ernest Mandel, author of Late Capitalism, one of the only comprehensive attempts to develop the theoretical legacy of Capital."
Author(s): Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman
Published: 1973
Category: Books
Length: 76 pages
Genre(s): Politics, International affairs
"Chomsky and Herman offer a critique of United States foreign policy in Indochina, with significant focus on the Vietnam War."
Author(s): Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez
Published: February 19, 1996 - present
Category: Video
Length: 5000+ episodes
Genre(s): Politics, News, International affairs
"Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez."
Author(s): Louis Althusser
Published: June 1, 1970
Category: Essays
Length: 52 pages
Genre(s): Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction
"Louis Althusser’s renowned short text ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’ radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks of cultural, political and literary theory."
Author(s): Rosa Luxemburg
Published: 1900, 1908
Category: Books
Length: 122 pages
Genre(s): Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction
"Why capitalism cannot overcome its internal contradictions and the working class cannot 'reform' away exploitation and economic crises."
Author(s): Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Published: February 21, 1848
Category: Books
Length: 288 pages
Genre(s): Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction
"Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration. Formulating the principles of dialectical materialism, they believed that labor creates wealth, hence capitalism is exploitive and antithetical to freedom."
Author(s): Friedrich Engels
Published: 1847
Category: Books
Length: 7780 words
Genre(s): Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction
"Principles of Communism is a brief 1847 work written by Friedrich Engels, the co-founder of Marxism. It is structured as a catechism, containing 25 questions about communism for which answers are provided. In the text, Engels presents core ideas of Marxism such as historical materialism, class struggle, and proletarian revolution. Principles of Communism served as the draft version for the Communist Manifesto."
Author(s): Vladimir Lenin
Published: 1917
Category: Books
Length: 116 pages
Genre(s): Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction
"The State and Revolution (1917) is a book by Vladimir Lenin describing the role of the state in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat."
Author(s): Ernesto Che Guevara
Published: 1952
Category: Books
Length: 175 pages
Genre(s): Memoir, Politics
"The Motorcycle Diaries is Che Guevara's diary of his journey to discover the continent of Latin America while still a medical student, setting out in 1952 on a vintage Norton motorcycle together with his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist. It captures, arguably as much as any book ever written, the exuberance and joy of one person's youthful belief in the possibilities of humankind tending towards justice, peace and happiness."
Author(s): Helen Yaffe
Published: April 6, 2020
Category: Books
Length: 380 pages
Genre(s): History, Politics, Nonfiction
"In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced the start of a crisis that decimated its economy. Helen Yaffe examines the astonishing developments that took place during and beyond this period. Drawing on archival research and interviews with Cuban leaders, thinkers, and activists, this book tells for the first time the remarkable story of how Cuba survived while the rest of the Soviet bloc crumbled."
Author(s): Noelani Nasser
Published: 2021
Category: Essays
Length: 37 pages
Genre(s): Politics, International affairs
"This paper will discuss historical events in Hawai’i from 1778 to the twenty-first century that demonstrate the atrocities and injustices of American imperialism that prevented the Native Hawaiians from profiting from the islands’ rich lands in a period of immense economic growth, stemming largely from agricultural developments."
Author(s): Gregory Harms, Todd M. Ferry
Published: 2005
Category: Books
Length: 288 pages
Genre(s): Politics, History, Nonfiction
"The Palestine-Israel conflict is the most notorious and ingrained conflict of the twentieth, and now twenty-first, century. Yet the way it is reported in the media is often confusing, leading many to assume the hostilities stretch back to an ancient period. This is the first book to provide a clear, accessible, and annotated introduction that covers the full history of the region, from Biblical times until today. Perfect for the general reader, as well as students, it offers a comprehensive yet lucid rendering of the conflict, setting it in its proper historical context. Harms and Ferry show how today's violence is very much a product of recent history, with its roots in the twentieth century. This balanced account is now fully up to date and makes a valuable resource for anyone who wants a clear guide to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian territories, and its place in the history of Middle Eastern affairs."
Author(s): Workers Solidarity Alliance
Published: 2011
Category: Zines
Length: 24 pages
Genre(s): Politics
"A guide to building a successful solidarity network along the lines of the Seattle Solidarity Network, written by SeaSol organizers."
Author(s): n/a
Published: 1919-1999
Category: Archives
Length: 35 images
Genre(s): Politics, Feminism, History
"This collection is valuable for examining the history of the independence movement, especially the history of the Nationalist Party, the Partido Independentista de Puerto Rico and Movimiento Pro Independencia. It is of particular importance for the insight it offers on the role of women in the independence movement and on women activists. The collection also contains significant information about political repression and the persecution of political activists in Puerto Rico. Like many other pro-independence sympathizers, Emelí Vélez de Vando was subjected to years of police surveillance. Among her papers is a voluminous carpeta, the secret file on her compiled by the police of Puerto Rico. In it are detailed accounts of all her activities, including her speeches at different forums and demonstrations. The collection consists primarily of letters, articles, photographs, police reports, audiotapes, programs and flyers."
Author(s): n/a
Published: 1940 - 1994
Category: Archives
Length: 28 images
Genre(s): Politics, History
"The Juanita Arocho Papers provide insight into community organizing efforts in the Puerto Rican community of East (Spanish) Harlem, Puerto Rican independence movements, and the participation of Puerto Ricans in the Masonic Order."
Author(s): Paula L. Ettelbrick, Thomas B. Stoddard
Published: Fall 1989
Category: Essays
Length: 11 pages
Genre(s): LGBT, Politics, Nonfiction
"A debate regarding the efficacy of marriage equality in liberating queer people."
Author(s): Jules Joanne Gleeson (Editor), Elle O'Rourke (Editor)
Published: May 20, 2021
Category: Books
Length: 320 pages
Genre(s): LGBT, Politics, Nonfiction
"Transgender Marxism collects a set of reflections on the relations between gender and labour, showing how these linked phenomena structure antagonisms in particular social and historical situations. The collection contributes to Marxist Feminism and Social Reproduction Theory through both personal and analytic examinations of the particular social activity demanded of trans people around the world. The aim of the publication is not to provide an exhaustive overview of all trans thinkers using Marxist frameworks, but rather to provide a provocative and illuminating entry point to this mode of theorisation."
Author(s): Fobazi Ettarh
Published: January 10, 2018
Category: Essays
Length: 8704 words
Genre(s): Librarianship
"Vocational awe describes the set of ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries as institutions are inherently good, sacred notions, and therefore beyond critique. This Essays aims to describe the phenomenon and its effects on library philosophies and practices so that they may be recognized and deconstructed."
Author(s): Shelley Lynn Jackson
Published: 2003
Category: Zines
Length: 7 pages
Genre(s): DIY, Tutorials
"A DIY guide to bicycle maintenance."
Author(s): M. M. Rooney
Published: 2006
Category: Zines
Length: 17 pages
Genre(s): DIY, Tutorials
"Illustrated guide on how to bind a book yourself."
Author(s): Mamoru Oshii
Published: December 15, 1985
Category: Video
Length: 1 hr 11 min
Genre(s): Anime, Film, Science Fantasy, Psychological
"A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg."
Author(s): Be-Papas, Nozomi Entertainment
Published: April 2, 1997 – December 24, 1997
Category: Video
Length: 39 episodes
Genre(s): Anime, LGBT, Series, Shoujo, Josei
"A tomboyish schoolgirl finds herself forced into repeated duels for another girl who has a role in a world revolution."
Author(s): Naoko Takeuchi, Toei Animation
Published: March 7, 1992 – February 8, 1997
Category: Video
Length: 241 episodes
Genre(s): Anime, Series, Shoujo
"The series follows the adventures of a schoolgirl named Usagi Tsukino as she transforms into the eponymous character to search for a magical artifact, the Legendary Silver Crystal. She leads a group of comrades, the Sailor Guardians, as they battle against villains to prevent the theft of the Silver Crystal and the destruction of the Solar System."
Author(s): Several
Published: April 20, 2015
Category: Zines
Length: 35 pages
Genre(s): Anime, Technology
"A fanzine centered around Serial Experiments Lain."
Author(s): Several
Published: August 28, 2015
Category: Zines
Length: 36 pages
Genre(s): Anime, Technology
"Issue 2 of a fanzine centered around Serial Experiments Lain."
Author(s): Several
Published: May 2016
Category: Zines
Length: 52 pages
Genre(s): Anime, Technology
"Issue 3 of a fanzine centered around Serial Experiments Lain."
Author(s): n/a
Published: Varied
Category: Audio
Length: 1,000+ albums
Genre(s): Varied
"A collection of vinyl recordings of any genre or year, as long they were released on vinyl discs."
Author(s): Himan Brown
Published: 1974 - 1982
Category: Audio
Length: 1,399 episodes
Genre(s): Radio
"Radio Mystery Theater and Mystery Theater, sometimes abbreviated as CBSRMT) was a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was carried by the NPR satellite feed."
Author(s): Clarice Lispector
Published: February 17, 1992
Category: Books
Length: 96 pages
Genre(s): Classics, Fiction
"Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio de Janeiro and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid realization that for all her outward misery, Macabéa is inwardly free. She doesn't seem to know how unhappy she should be. Lispector employs her pathetic heroine against her urbane, empty narrator--edge of despair to edge of despair--and, working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away the reader's preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love, and the art of fiction. In her last novel she takes readers close to the true mystery of life, and leaves us deep in Lispector territory indeed."
Author(s): Emily Brontë
Published: December 1, 1847
Category: Books
Length: 464 pages
Genre(s): Classics, Gothic, Romance, Historical fiction
"At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy."
Author(s): Herman Melville
Published: October 18, 1851
Category: Books
Length: 654 pages
Genre(s): Classics, Historical fiction
"In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception."
Author(s): Franz Kafka
Published: 1915
Category: Books
Length: 201 pages
Genre(s): Fiction, Classics
"With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction."
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Published: 1866
Category: Books
Length: 671 pages
Genre(s): Fiction, Classics
"Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden sex worker, can offer the chance of redemption."
Author(s): Joseph Heller
Published: November 10, 1961
Category: Books
Length: 453 pages
Genre(s): Classics, Historical fiction, War
"Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved."
Author(s): Fayer Collective
Published: Winter 2022
Category: Essays
Length: 2885 words
Genre(s): Environment, Politics
"A manifesto from the threatened Atlanta forest."
Author(s): Donald Parkinson
Published: December 28, 2019
Category: Essays
Length: 6264 words
Genre(s): Politics
"Donald Parkinson takes issue with the calls for a 'socially conservative leftism' that have increased in popularity since Jeremy Corbyn’s defeat in the UK election. "
Author(s): Richard York
Published: 2017
Category: Essays
Length: 13 pages
Genre(s): Environment, Politics, History
"Ironically, even though fossil fuels provided substitutes for the main uses of whale oil, the rise of fossil fuel use in the nineteenth century served to increase the intensity of whaling. The connections between fossil fuels and whaling are an example of the unanticipated consequences that frequently come with technological change. I draw on political-economic theory to explain why fossil fuels served to escalate rather than eliminate whaling. The case of whaling highlights the limited potential for technological developments to help overcome environmental problems without concurrent political, economic, and social change that supports conservation."
Author(s): Ruby Tandoh
Published: August 6, 2018
Category: Essays
Length: 4321 words
Genre(s): History, Race, Politics
"How a taste for sweetness, developed for survival, became a stand-in for everything good — and evil — about our culture"
Author(s): Joan Aruz, Elisabetta Valtz Fino
Published: 2012
Category: Books
Length: 146 pages
Genre(s): Art history
"Afghanistan, standing at the crossroads of major trade routes, has a long and complex history. Its rich cultural heritage bears the imprint of many traditions, from Greece and Iran to the nomadic world of the Eurasian steppes and China. The essays in this volume concentrate on periods of great artistic development: the Bactrian Bronze Age and the eras following the conquests of Alexander the Great, with a special focus on the sites of Aï Khanum, Begram, and Tillya Tepe. These contributions— in response to the reappearance of the magnificent hidden treasures from Afghanistan and their exhibition— have shed new light on the significance of these works and have reinvigorated the discussion of the arts and culture of Central Asia."
Author(s): Paul George Munro, Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita
Published: November 2011
Category: Essays
Length: 30 pages
Genre(s): History, Environment
"Presented in this paper is an alternative perspective on the Peninsula's history, cast through an environmental historical lens that elicits nature's role as a historical actor."
Author(s): Audre Lorde
Published: 1978
Category: Poetry
Length: 136 pages
Genre(s): LGBT, Feminism, Race, Poetry
"The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, 'for the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, has already become, for many, an indispensable poet.'"
Author(s): Ocean Vuong
Published: April 5, 2016
Category: Poetry
Length: 89 pages
Genre(s): LGBT, Poetry
"Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial 'big'—and very human—subjects of romance, family, memory, grief, war, and melancholia. None of these he allows to overwhelm his spirit or his poems, which demonstrate, through breath and cadence and unrepentant enthrallment, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the fiercest hungers."
Author(s): Han Kang
Published: February 2, 2016
Category: Books
Length: 188 pages
Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
"Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision to embrace a more “plant-like” existence is a shocking act of subversion. And as her passive rebellion manifests in ever more extreme and frightening forms, scandal, abuse, and estrangement begin to send Yeong-hye spiraling deep into the spaces of her fantasy. In a complete metamorphosis of both mind and body, her now dangerous endeavor will take Yeong-hye—impossibly, ecstatically, tragically—far from her once-known self altogether."
Author(s): Han Kang
Published: May 19, 2014
Category: Books
Length: 188 pages
Genre(s): Historical fiction
"An award-winning, controversial bestseller, Human Acts is a timeless, pointillist portrait of an historic event with reverberations still being felt today, by turns tracing the harsh reality of oppression and the resounding, extraordinary poetry of humanity."
Author(s): Min Jin Lee
Published: February 7, 2017
Category: Books
Length: 496 pages
Genre(s): Historical fiction
"In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant — and that her lover is married — she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations."
Author(s): Kanae Minato
Published: August 5, 2008
Category: Books
Length: 240 pages
Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Horror
"After calling off her engagement in wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation. But first she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that upends everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion a maniacal plot for revenge."
