An Everlasting Meal

Tamar Adler

An Everlasting Meal is a modern-day How To Cook A Wolf—a practical, no-nonsense, and economical approach to cooking that eschews recipes for methods that can be remixed and adapted to whatever is on hand.

How to Cook a Wolf

M.F.K. Fisher

First published in 1942 and then heavily amended and republished in 1951, M.F.K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf is part cookbook, part war story, and all great writing.

Practicing New Worlds

Andrea J. Ritchie

Andrea Ritchie draws from Black feminist abolitionist politics, emergent strategies, and speculative fiction to light up a path for surviving racial capitalism, growing fascism, and the climate crisis

Who’s Afraid of Gender?

Judith Butler

Judith Butler looks hard at the rise of anti-gender ideology in order to break apart how it works, and what, in turn, we must do about it.

Seeing Like a State

James C. Scott

The classic opus about how states fuck up.

Stories Are Weapons

Annalee Newitz

Weapons used abroad always come home, and weapons of the mind are no different.

The Wood at Midwinter

Susanna Clarke

In this short fable of midwinter, Susanna Clarke tells of the speech of dogs and pigs and foxes and the woods themselves, who talk to those who know how to listen.

The Middle Passage

James Hollis

“Mid-way in life’s journey / I found myself in a dark wood, / having lost the way.”

The Unaccountability Machine

Dan Davies

Dan Davies hypothesizes that organizations form “accountability sinks”—structures that serve to obscure, deflect, or otherwise insulate decision makers from the consequences of their decisions.

When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamín Labutat

A book that is both fiction and non-fiction, both wave and particle, both history and imagination, and somehow, something else entirely.