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.

For Health Autonomy

CareNotes Collective

After austerity measures pushed nearly a million people in Greece out of the healthcare system, dozens of social solidarity clinics emerged, providing free preventative and integrative healthcare to thousands of people.

Non-things

Byung-Chul Han

“We are becoming blind to small, inconspicuous things, to what is common, the incidental and the customary—the things that do not attract us but ground us in being.”

The Telling

Ursula K. Le Guin

Sutty, an observer from Terra, arrives on the planet Aka to find a singular, oppressive capitalist state has taken over the entire population in the years she spent traversing the stars to get there.

Superior

Angela Saini

The subtitle of Angela Saini’s Superior refers to the return of race science—but reading it, it’s abundantly clear that race science never went away.

The Mismeasure of Man

Stephen Jay Gould

First published in 1981—thirteen years before The Bell Curve—Stephen Jay Gould’s Mismeasure of Man nonetheless claims to be the definitive refutation of that deeply racist book.

Five Ways to Forgiveness

Ursula K. Le Guin

When the Hain first visit the Werelian system, they encounter a people living in a rigid and violently hierarchical system, separated into “owners” and “assets.”

Discourse on Colonialism

Aimé Césaire

In the words of Robin D. G. Kelley’s introduction, this book is a “declaration of war.”

Wildwood

Roger Deakin

Roger Deakin’s journey through trees takes him through the woods of Britain and Europe, to Kazakhstan and Australia, finding fellowship with a good many trees and the critters that live among them, as well as many lovely and interesting people.

The Light Eaters

Zoë Schlanger

Amidst the noisy and nonsensical discourse about recognizing the intelligence of machines, Zoë Schlanger asks us to open our eyes to the intelligence that already surrounds us and upon which we wholly depend: that of plants.