The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
It’s a refrain of late to say that this—Margaret Atwood’s most famous book, now thirty-one years old—is suddenly relevant again.
Sisterhood
On Sister Outsider
Sister Outsider
Audre Lorde
More than three decades after this collection was first published, it remains as critical, as relevant, as unremitting as ever.
Black Against Empire
Joshua Bloom & Waldo E. Martin, Jr.
A comprehensive, authoritative, and nuanced look at how the Black Panther Party was born, the nature of its methods and politics, and the many forces that caused it to unravel.
Abolition, not reform
On Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
The feminist approach
On Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Angela Y. Davis
Davis has spent more than five decades fighting for Black liberation, women’s liberation, and prison abolition, and in this brief book she renews those calls in lucid and moral terms.
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
“If we…do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.”
White Rage
Carol Anderson
Anderson traces the repeated push and pull of black advancement and the white response that sought to defeat it, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow, mass incarceration, and the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act.
Disrupting White Supremacy from Within
Jennifer Harvey, Karin A. Case & Robin Hawley Gorsline
Written and edited by a group of white Christian theologians, this book looks at how white supremacy is constructed and maintained, how the church is implicated in that system, and what individuals and communities can do to dismantle it.
The revolution that counts
On Hope in the Dark
Hope in the Dark
Rebecca Solnit
By arguing that hope is a prerequisite of success, Solnit makes the case that even when we are most inclined to despair, we have to choose to hope.
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
The first book of “The Broken Earth” trilogy, The Fifth Season tells of a world routinely undone by huge, world ending earthquakes.
Transforming the relations of power
On Anthropocene or Capitalocene?
We are at stake to each other
On Anthropocene or Capitalocene? and The Mushroom at the End of the World
Networks of New York
Ingrid Burrington
Burrington’s message is that by noticing the physical dependencies that make up the metaphorical “cloud,” you will also notice a few other things.
The poverty of our nomenclature
On Anthropocene or Capitalocene?
Zahav
Michael Solomonov & Steven Cook
This has rapidly become my go-to cookbook.
Anthropocene or Capitalocene?
Jason W. Moore
This collection of essays explores what we should call this new geographic epoch marked by fossil-fueled climate change.