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Jun

10

2019

Love and Resistance book cover

Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era edited by Jason Baumann

This curated photography collection spanning the ’60s and ’70s captures stunning revolutionary moments of candid intimacy and public protest in LGBTQ+ history. Images of the Stonewall Riots are captioned with illuminating context and an introduction by Roxane Gay. Looking back on this groundbreaking movement, you’ll gain newfound insight into its foundations and its continued importance, …

Apr

29

2019

Brute: Poems

Brute: Poems by Emily Skaja

“In the years since I was last light-starved, hell-bent on your half-cocked lure  I have kept the moon on all night in my own way,  by listening, by not forgetting it is there. Small witchery.” Skaja’s debut poetry collection, winner of the Walt Whitman Award, is an unearthing of wilderness and womanhood, from the raw …

Jul

19

2018

On Tyranny

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

The lessons that can be learned from our past struggles for democracy are unending, but consider this pocket-sized book a concentrated primer.  Holocaust scholar Snyder’s 20 prescriptions bring into focus a better understanding of inequality, offer warnings against fascist ideologies and patterns, and create priorities for resistance: Investigate. Listen for dangerous words. Be calm when the …

Dec

14

2015

Fortune Smiles

Fortune Smiles: Stories
by Adam Johnson

Winner of the 2015 National Book Award (Fiction) “The world is not a dichotomy of black and white– and Johnson captures the grayness of it with everyday, morally complex characters from different walks of life, each facing a crisis of humanity that smacks of tragicomedy. Johnson writes themes of technology, politics, and societal upheaval with …

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