Trauma and Recovery

Judith Herman

Herman’s canonical work focuses on the necessity of understanding trauma within a social and political context.

Capitalism and the Death Drive

Byung-Chul Han

A person dies, but capital is forever.

Waking the Moon

Elizabeth Hand

An ancient secret order finds itself up against its most powerful foe: the Moon Goddess has returned.

We, the Heartbroken

Gargi Bhattacharyya

“Heartbreak is the heart of all revolutionary consciousness.”

Apocalypse

Lizzie Wade

An apocalypse is always both an ending and a beginning.

Reclaiming Work

André Gorz

“We must dare to prepare ourselves for the Exodus from ‘work-based society’: it no longer exists and will not return.”

Slow River

Nicola Griffith

Lore wakes up in an alley, naked, a huge gash running down her back, her identity implant—the only proof of her heritage in one of the world’s richest families—gone.

Ammonite

Nicola Griffith

Marguerite (“Marghe”) Taishan is about to step foot on the planet Jeep when she receives a warning: if she goes on, she will never come back.

Always

Nicola Griffith

Aud is back in Atlanta, teaching a self-defense class to a ragtag group of women, when one of her students takes her lessons in a direction she didn’t imagine.

Stay

Nicola Griffith

Aud Torvingen is tucked away in a remote cabin, grieving and alone.

Let This Radicalize You

Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba

“Radical” means “pertaining to the root,” that is, the foundation or center of things, the point from which something grows.

The Blue Place

Nicola Griffith

Aud Torvingen is a Norwegian living in Atlanta, a former cop moonlighting as security, an expert in several forms of martial arts, and six feet tall.