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A timely primer on the conflict between the United States and Iran by scholars of Middle Eastern politics who advocate diplomacy and de-escalation.

Fast-paced frontline reporting and analysis on the militaristic spread of US Border Patrol and the long-term consequences for free society.

Impossible Princess is a book John Rechy's or Dennis Cooper's characters would read.

From acclaimed Nigeria-born, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism.

A State of the Union from the nation's first Latino Poet Laureate. Trenchant, compassionate, and filled with hope.

Award-winning poet explores new formal terrain in seven long poems against the violence of the present political moment.

A clear and urgent call for the national, social, and individual changes required to prevent catastrophic climate change.

An urgent primer on what can be done to combat emerging threats to the core of U.S. democracy-presidential elections.

A breathtaking free fall into the long-buried (and fictional) history of a utopian era in American lighter-than-air travel, as told by its death-defying, aero-acrobatic heroes.

The story of how a national grassroots network fought a resurgence of the KKK and other fascist groups during the Reagan years, laying the groundwork for today's anti-fascist/anti-racist movements.

An inspiring, historic collection of writings from one of America's most important civil rights leaders.

Profound meditations on life, death, freedom, family, and faith written by radical, Black journalist, Mumia Abu-Jamal, while he was awaiting his execution.

This volume brings together every known surviving poem by this major African-American surrealist, including the three books published in his lifetime, Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness, Golden Sardine, and The Ancient Rain.

A series of personal and historical encounters with surrealism from one of its foremost practitioners in the United States.

This biography of Bayard Rustin for young readers depicts his life of nonviolent activism and resistance.

A powerful critique of how manipulation of media gives rise to disinformation, intolerance, and divisiveness, and what can be done to change direction.

A memoir and book of mourning, a grandson's attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather's lifelong struggle.

This historical guidebook reveals new perspectives on San Francisco, and how it came to be the way it is.

The life, times, and work of Herbert Marcuse, one of the 20th century's most remarkable cultural figures.

Seminal moments, rites of passage, crystalline vignettes-a memoir about growing up on the U.S./Mexico border.

A black, gay Poundian in Boston, Stephen Jonas is a crucial missing piece of the postwar American poetry puzzle.

The triumphs and tragedies of growing up as the son of a famous Beat artist

How "colorblindness" in policy and personal practice perpetuate racial inequity in the United States today.

From New York School scion and memoirist, a new book of poems considering domesticity in the heart of the city.

A Latina feminist State of the Union address at the intersection of pop culture and interiority.

Rebelling against the contraints of family and society, a young Egyptian woman decides to study medicine, becoming the only woman in a class of men. Her encounters with the other students mdash; as well as the male and female corpses in the autopsy room—intensify her dissatisfaction with and search for identity. She realizes men are not gods as her mother had taught her, that science cannot explain everything, and that she cannot be satisfied by living a life purely of the mind.After a brief and unhappy marriage, she throws herself into her work, becoming a successful physician, but at the same time, she becomes aware of injustice and hypocrisy in society. Fulfillment and love come to her at last in a wholly unexpected way.". . . Memoirs of a Woman Doctor by Nawal el Saadawi, one of the leading Egyptian feminist writers, reveals the contradictions embedded in women's self-oppressive struggle against patriarchy."—Khadidiatau Gueye, Research in African Literatures (Indiana University Press)Nawal el Saadawi, born in 1931 in Kafr Tahla, Egypt, is an Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, author and activist. She is the founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association and co-founder of the Arab Association for Human Rights. In 2004 she won the North-South Prize from the Council of Europe. In 2005 she won the inana International Prize in Belgium. In 2010 she won the Sean MacBride Peace Prize from the International Peace Bureau. She has written and published other novels, memoirs, plays, non-fiction and short stories including Woman at Point Zero, The Hidden Face of Eve and The Fall of the Imam.

An historical look at the practice of impeachment, how it impacted the terms of Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton, and how it may affect Donald Trump.

Feminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet.

Four unpublished journals by a master of the form, one of the greatest American poets of the 20th Century.