Everything for Everyone
M.E. O’Brien & Eman Abdelhadi
On May 6, 2052, a sex worker named Miss Kelley joined with her neighbors in Hunts Point to take over a produce market and distribute the food to those in need.
Against optimization
On How Infrastructure Works
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
Good infrastructure is thankless. You only notice it when it fails.
HIM
Geoff Ryman
“Women, of course, can not be sons of God.”
Gather your gossips
Talk is power.
Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
Silvia Federici
Following the threads from the witch hunts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to present-day gendered violence, Silvia Federici shows how—then as now—such oppression is not only a tool of capitalism but a critical component of it.
Undiscovered
On Against the Grain & The Steerswoman
Against the Grain
James C. Scott
Like another book with the same name, James C. Scott’s Against the Grain argues that the “just so” story of humans’ progression from barbarians to civilized agriculturalists is not the success story we might have thought.
Dry Land
B. Pladek
In the woods of Wisconsin, a young forester named Rand Brandt learns that he can grow any plant he imagines in minutes, merely by touching the dirt.
Move at the speed of trust
On Being Wrong & Emergent Strategy
Toward inquiry
On Being Wrong
Being Wrong
Kathryn Schulz
Kathryn Schulz posits a vision of wrongness as both the inevitable human condition and a generative source from which creativity, art, brilliance, risk-taking, and so much more arises.
A Half-Built Garden
Ruthanna Emrys
Judy Wallach-Stevens is woken one night to a warning about pollutants in the nearby Chesapeake Bay. With her wife and newborn in tow, she heads out to see what’s up—and ends up making first contact with a group of friendly aliens.
Radio noise
On The World of Silence
The World of Silence
Max Picard
“Silence is not simply what happens when we stop talking. It is more than a mere negative renunciation of language; it is more than simply a condition we can produce at will.”
God Went Like That
Yxta Maya Murray
In the middle of the last century, a research and development complex in California’s Simi Valley experienced multiple near-catastrophic accidents, leaking radiation and other toxins into the surrounding communities.
Treacle Walker
Alan Garner
“Ragbone! Ragbone! Any rags! Pots for rags! Donkey stone!”
The Absolute Book
Elizabeth Knox
When the murderer of Taryn Cornick’s sister is himself murdered just days after his release from prison, detective Jacob Berger is certain she has something to do with it.
Against Technoableism
Ashley Shew
“Technoableism is a belief in the power of technology that considers the elimination of disability a good thing, something we should strive for.”
The Saint of Bright Doors
Vajra Chandrasekera
In the seconds after Fetter is born, his mother kills his shadow.