The Language of Power
Rosemary Kirstein
In the fourth and as yet final book of the Steerswoman series, Rowan and Bel return to Donner, where they last barely escaped an attack of dragons.
The Lost Steersman
Rosemary Kirstein
Rowan arrives in Alemath, at the steerswomen’s Annex, searching for information.
The Outskirter’s Secret
Rosemary Kirstein
The second book in the extraordinary Steerswoman Series follows Rowan and her companion, Bel, as they venture into the outskirts: a dangerous, inhospitable land marked by few sources of food and panoply of monsters intent on killing the humans who dare to live there.
A unified theory of fucks
Where to give all your precious fucks.
The Steerswoman
Rosemary Kirstein
Ask a steerswoman any question, and she will answer it truthfully and to the fullest of her knowledge. In return, you must answer any question she puts to you.
Refusal
On Conflict Is Not Abuse & Just Culture
People do things for reasons
On Conflict Is Not Abuse
Conflict Is Not Abuse
Sarah Schulman
“How we understand Conflict, how we respond to Conflict, and how we behave as bystanders in the face of other people’s Conflict determines whether or not we have collective justice and peace.”
The Silverberg Business
Robert Freeman Wexler
In 1888, Shannon, a private detective from Chicago, travels to Texas to investigate a missing person: one Nathan Silverberg, who had ventured south with a clutch of donated funds intended to buy land to found a colony for Jewish refugees.
The Creative Act
Rick Rubin
“Nothing in this book / is known to be true.”
Menewood
Nicola Griffith
Hild, now Lady of Elmet and wife to Cian Boldcloak, remains King Edwin’s seer—but what she can see is terrible.
The real ones
On Blood in the Machine & Ursula Franklin Speaks
Fauxtomation
On Blood in the Machine
Blood in the Machine
Brian Merchant
“The Luddites understood technology all too well; they didn’t hate it, but rather the way it was used against them.”
The Vaster Wilds
Lauren Groff
A girl—who was once called Zed, and once called Lamentations, and now perhaps has no name—flees the famine and violence of a starving Dutch colony in the Americas and enters the wilderness.
Typographical disfixity
On The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
Late pandemic
What if it’s we who are late?
You Deserve a Tech Union
Ethan Marcotte
In this, the latest book from Ethan Marcotte (he of responsive web design fame), unions aren’t anachronisms but rather a set of structures for workers to practice mutual aid, solidarity, and democracy with each other and across their workplaces.
The best of times
On Caliban and the Witch
Caliban and the Witch
Silvia Federici
Silvia Federici, one of the creators of the wages for housework movement, digs in to the transition to capitalism and locates a critical and under-investigated element: the witch hunts.