It’s been a while since I’ve visited the Kate Sharpley Library’s website. I checked it out again today after receiving an email announcing the new issue of KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library (no. 66, for those who are counting). The Bulletin itself is, as usual, full of fascinating material…including the rescue of another […]
Longtime friends & comrades Chris Dixon and Jamie McCallum just wrote an excellent review of Cindy Milstein’s Anarchism and Its Aspirations, which is up on ZNet now. Check it out! Cindy’s book, the first in our co-publishing collaboration with the Institute for Anarchist Studies, has really been a hit since its release last year, and […]
A full report on this weekend’s tabling insanity is forthcoming, but one nice thing that happened for me in NYC is that I got to see (briefly) my friend Daniel Tucker (co-editor of Chronicle Books’s Farm Together Now) who passed along the text of a review he just wrote of Signs of Change for Afterimage. […]
As Kevin van Meter of Team Colors reminded me just a few days ago, we’re quickly approaching the one-year anniversary of the publication of Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States. Crazy! I can’t believe it’s been almost a year since we launched the book at the 2010 […]
Have y’all ever read The Believer? It’s a literary magazine founded in 2003 in San Francisco, by Dave Eggers of McSweeney’s fame. (Incidentally, Eggers’s What Is the What? has one of my favorite book cover designs in recent years.) The idea behind The Believer was to provide a space for writers to talk about reading, […]
Thanks to Paul Craig Roberts and our friends over at Counterpunch for this great review of Fear of the Animal Planet. Check out the original review here. A Brief for Animals By Paul Craig Roberts Jason Hribal in a book just off the CounterPunch/AK press, Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal […]
Nice, in-depth review of Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World. It comes from the Parasol Climate Collective, and appeared on the Institute for Anarchist Studies website. ———- All Power to the People: Energy Production and the Climate Crisis by Lara Messersmith-Glavin, for Parasol Climate Collective A review […]
Here’s a great review from our friends at Elevate Difference. Read the original here. Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent By AK Thompson AK Press My fascination with the anti-globalization movement, like my own baby steps into activism, is a late bloomer. I came of age when my peers were shutting […]
A really nice review of Ben Dangl’s Dancing with Dynamite by NACLA reviewer Jason Tockman. You can visit NACLA here. —– Book Review: Dancing with Dynamite Dec 14 2010 Jason Tockman Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America Benjamin Dangl, AK Press (2010), 206 pp., $15.95 (paperback) Amidst the flurry of recently […]
We were honored last week by two reviews of AK Press books by friends and mentors that elevate the act of reviewing to an art form in and of itself! As one of AK’s publicity folks, I read a lot of book reviews, and it’s always a distinct pleasure to find authors who don’t just […]