Catalog

Slavoj Žižek

Refugees, terror, and the false choices Europe was offered in responding to both.

Alison Bechdel

A cartoonist examines her complicated bond with her mother through psychoanalytic theory and Virginia Woolf.

Derecka Purnell

A civil rights lawyer’s personal and political journey from believing in police reform to organizing for abolition.

ALOK

A short, sharp essay dismantling the gender binary and imagining past it.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

A botanist and Potawatomi woman braids Indigenous knowledge and scientific inquiry into an argument for reciprocity with the living world.

Roz Chast

A cartoonist’s wry, aching memoir of caring for her aging parents through their final years.

Joy Harjo

The U.S. Poet Laureate’s memoir of coming into her own voice, her Muscogee heritage, and her survival.

Margarita Marín-Dale

An exploration of Andean myth and cosmology and what it reveals about pre-Columbian worldviews.

Simon Young

A transhumanist manifesto arguing humanity should take its own evolution into its own hands.

James MacKillop

A reference dictionary of Celtic mythological figures, places, and stories across Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

adrienne maree brown · AK Press

Shaping change, changing worlds. Movement strategy learned from octopi, mycelium, and Octavia Butler.

Matthew Desmond

A Pulitzer-winning ethnography following eight Milwaukee families through eviction — how housing precarity drives poverty, not the other way around.

Eli Clare

A landmark memoir-essay collection on disability, queerness, class, and the body — foundational disability justice writing.

Miranda J. Green

A scholarly look at what’s actually known — and what’s myth — about the historical Druids.

Miguel M. Morales (ed.)

An anthology centering fat queer and trans bodies and lives, in essay, poetry, and memoir.

Alison Bechdel

A cartoonist’s memoir of her closeted father, her own coming out, and the funeral home they called ’the fun home.’

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (trans. Janet Hong)

A survivor’s account of Japanese wartime sexual slavery during WWII — heavy, unflinching, and important.

Lamya H.

A queer, Muslim memoir that reads the Quran’s stories alongside a life spent between identities that weren’t supposed to fit together.

Noel Ignatiev

A history of how Irish immigrants were assimilated into American whiteness — and what they gave up and gained doing it.

W.B. Yeats

Yeats’ own collection of Irish fairy lore, banshees, and folk belief, gathered at the turn of the 20th century.

Manchán Magan, illus. Steve Doogan

A board book introducing young readers to Irish words for animals, birds, fish, and insects — language and nature together from the very start.

Slavoj Žižek

On power, automation, and freedom in an era when both capital and revolution have gotten stranger.

Esther Perel

A therapist’s argument that domesticity and desire pull against each other — and what long-term couples can do about it.

Resmaa Menakem

A therapist’s argument that racialized trauma lives in the body, and that healing has to start there too.

Micah Rajunov (ed.)

An anthology of nonbinary writers on gender outside the binary, in their own words.

Edward W. Said

The foundational critique of how the West constructed ’the East’ as an object of study and domination.

Marie Heaney

A retelling of Ireland’s central mythic cycles — the Fianna, the Ulster Cycle, the old gods — gathered into one accessible volume.

Lisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia

Poor-people-led theory, art, and testimony on homelessness and survival, written from lived experience rather than about it.

Matthew Desmond

An argument that American poverty persists because others of us benefit from it — and what would change if we stopped.

Kristen Radtke

A graphic essay on the history and shape of American loneliness, woven through with the author’s own life.

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Bilingual Irish/English poetry drawing deeply on myth, the otherworld, and the Irish language itself.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

A poetic, genre-defying meditation built from the archive of Black feminist thinker Hortense Spillers.

Marjane Satrapi

A girl’s coming-of-age during and after the Iranian Revolution, told in stark, unforgettable black and white.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

A particle physicist weaves dark matter, the history of Black astronomy, and her own life into a case for a more just science.

Caitlín Matthews

A reference guide through Celtic mythology, symbolism, and spiritual tradition.

Vincent Bevins

How a U.S.-backed anticommunist purge in Indonesia became a template exported across the Cold War world.

Alison Bechdel

A memoir of the author’s lifelong string of fitness obsessions — and what she was really chasing the whole time.

Wisam Rafeedie

A political memoir written from inside a Palestinian resistance movement.

Isabel Wilkerson

The sweeping, intimate history of the Great Migration, told through three families who left the Jim Crow South.

Susan Stryker

A foundational overview of transgender history and politics in the United States.

Angela Willey

A critique of how monogamy gets naturalized through biology and science — and what gets left out of that story.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

What whales, dolphins, and manatees can teach us about survival, care, and collective liberation.

Mariame Kaba

Essays and interviews on abolition, transformative justice, and organizing for a world without prisons and police.

Fintan O’Toole

A personal-and-national history of modern Ireland, told alongside the author’s own life.

W.B. Yeats

A wider collection of Yeats’ folklore writing and mythic scholarship.