Steven W Thrasher’s The Overseer Class is an important and well-written expansion upon old conversations. There has been extensive discussion about representation of marginalized groups in positions of power. People have discussed how propping up systems with tokenism is never going to be enough. Thrasher takes all of this to a more complex extent, arguing…

The Black Box is a slim and haunting volume of short stories by Mata Kastrisou. The translation from Greek by Kostas Kaltsas appears to be stellar. I say this as a monolingual person, so I cannot claim to have read the Greek version to compare it against. However, the creative and poetic nature of this…

Molka is my second read from author Monika Kim, but was far more emotional and intense for me than The Eyes are the Best Part. Before going into this book, one should know that there is a LOT of sexual, domestic, and other violence inside it. I say this as more than the average content…

Like many USAmericans, I am woefully ignorant of the inner workings of Iran and the diverse peoples and movements that have occurred and continue to exist there. Despite my resistance to it, there is still consistent horrific propaganda pumped into our media sphere that also limits me. Add onto that my intentional lack of social…

One of the things I really like about AK Press is their use of publishing to expand public knowledge of how diverse anarchist theory, practice, and history are. Often, anarchist reading material is limited to difficult to find zines or historical texts of a few dead anarchists or revolutionaries. While these texts are certainly valuable,…

It is difficult to assess Matthew Wolfe’s Fires in the Night in part because I went into it expecting something a little bit different. If one looks at this book as a true crime, narrative nonfiction text about a specific legal case of an affinity group, it’s mostly fine. I have some disagreements here and…

I must admit that I rarely seek out books on economics, which ends up being a flaw of mine when trying to discuss my opposition to capitalism. I usually end up reading these sorts of things when a publisher sends them out with another book I’ve requested which is the case with this book in…

I was excited to see Clare Follmann’s Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong show up in AK Press’ catalogue. I am a birder involved in a various naturalist projects and social circles and the lack of overlap between those and proper leftist critique of harmful systems is quite frustrating at times. I was…

Girl Number 67203 at Ravensbrück is a time capsule of stories that have frequently been underrepresented. The book is both a fascinating and harrowing account of Albanian and Greek womens resistance to fascism and their experiences imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. There is a sort of knowledge that comes from a book like this that…

It’s always tough to review a memoir as it can come off like reviewing someones life rather than the book itself. Sangamithra Iyer’s Governing Bodies took me a little while to get into. A mishmash of tumultuous things in my personal life and a unique writing structure meant that the book took me a bit…