Ursula K. Le Guin     1990     226p     MMPB In this fourth novel in the Earthsea series, we rejoin the young priestess Tenar and powerful wizard Ged. Years before, they had helped each other at a time of darkness and danger. Together, they shared an adventure like no other. Tenar has … Continue reading Tehanu →

Lois Lowry    1993    192p    MMPB Jonas’s world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community, and when Jonas turns 12 he is sent to train under The Giver. The Giver alone holds the … Continue reading The Giver →

Henri Charrière     1969     576p     5 x 8 “We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every new scientific discovery breeds a hunger for greater comfort and the constant struggle to … Continue reading Papillion →

3000 Years of Spontaneous Insurrection Yves Férmion     2002     280p     6 x 9 Every now and then, things explode. Riots, uprisings, revolutions, and new and bizarre social groups spring up seemingly from nowhere. Our standard histories tend to treat these as oddities, if treated at all, or as misguided responses to hard times, limited by lack … Continue reading Orgasms of History →

General Considerations and Firsthand Testimony Concerning Some Brief flowerings of Life in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and, Incidentally, Our Own Time Raoul Vaneigem     1986     302p     6 x 9 A historical reflection on the ways religious and economic forces have shaped Western culture. Within this broad frame, Vaneigem examines … Continue reading The Movement of the Free Spirit →

A Surrealistic Novel in Collage Max Ernst     1934     208p     8 x 11 Accredited with inventing collage, this is one of Ernst’s finest example of it. All five original brochures reproduced in large, crisp and beautiful images. $8-20 Other works involving surrealism, pleasure, dreams, nightmare, violence, 1930s

Anarchists, IWWs, Surrealists, Situationists, & Provos in the 1960s Franklin Rosemont     2005     447p     6 x 9 While square critics derided them as “the left wing of the Beat Generation,” the multi-racial, working-class editorial groups of The Rebel Worker and its sister journal Heatwave in London became well known for … Continue reading Dancin’ in the Streets! →

The Book of Pleasures Raoul Vaneigem   1979   210p   5 x 8 An underappreciated and hard-to-find text by one of the best situationist theorists after his SI days. In a nutshell? Food, sex, poetry, wine and rebellion are good, healthy and life-affirming; money, work, submission and exchange-value mean death. Which will the coming … Continue reading Le livre des plaisirs →

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