Reviews of AK Books
« Previous EntriesYour Own James: A Review of You Don’t Play with Revolution
Saturday, February 20th, 2010The erstwhile Indypendent, the organ of the NYC Independent Media Center, recently ran an interview of our (fairly) new release, You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of CLR James. You can read it below…and you should also check out the Indypendent’s web site here. They’re produced by a large network of volunteers and [...]
Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz, translated by Chuck Morse, afterword by José Luis Gutierréz Molina [Review]
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009We LOVE it when people review AK books! What follows is a review of Abel Paz’s Durruti in the Spanish Revolution by our comrades and collaborators at the Kate Sharpley Library. It first appeared on the KSL website, in part to commemorate the July 19 anniversary of the Spanish Revolution of 1936.
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Buenaventura Durruti [...]
How a Greening Culture Cannot Ignore the Military: Green Zone review and interview
Monday, July 6th, 2009Barry Sanders’ new book, The Green Zone:The Environmental Costs of Militarism is sparking the sorts of discussions Barry, and we, hoped it would: discussions that, to use Barry’s words, shift the terms of debate from “antiwar” movements to “no war” movements. The following review and interview come from the June 25, 2009 edition of The [...]
No War But Class War: a review of Louis Adamic’s Dynamite
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009We LOVE it when people review AK Press books. The following review by Abe Walker first appeared in the May 2009 issue of the CUNY Graduate Center Advocate.
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“No War But Class War”
Book Review by Abe Walker
Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America by Louis Adamic. AK Press Edition (2008)
The contemporary US labor [...]
Book Review: Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009Oh, do we ever love it when people review AK books! Of course, we love the publicity that this gives our titles but, more than anything, we love the fact that people are wrestling with the ideas that they contain! That’s what it’s all about for us.
Dana Williams authored the following excellent review, which first [...]
Defining Anarchist Art: Gleanings from a Roundtable on Realizing the Impossible
Friday, May 29th, 2009The Institute for Anarchist Studies has posted more material from their ongoing, online 2009 issue of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory. It includes two pieces about Josh Macphee and Erik Reuland’s Realizing the Impossible: Art against Authority (which AK Press published back in 2007). There’s a detailed review by Alan Moore, and a very interesting roundtable [...]
BOOK REVIEW: Arm the Spirit, a Woman’s Journey Underground and Back (Part 1)
Monday, May 18th, 2009We really love it when people review our books! And we especially love it when reviewers use our books to ask important political and strategic questions, and to really try to think through the issues our books raise. This review does just that. It appeared on the American Leftist blog on April 28.
In the near [...]
Book Review: Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century
Friday, May 8th, 2009At AK Press, we love it when people read our books. And what do we love even more than that? When people read and review our books! That makes super, super happy.
With that in mind, we hope you’ll enjoy James Generic’s review of Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century
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Real Utopia: Participatory [...]
Artifacts for Survival: A Review of Diana Block’s Arm the Spirit
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009We love it when people review AK books! The following review by Ron Jacobs first appeared in Counterpunch. We repost it here with permission.
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A Review of Diana Block’s Arm the Spirit
Artifacts for Survival
By RON JACOBS
In a nation like the United States, where history is not only forgotten, but intentionally suppressed, it is no [...]
Roots of My Radicalism: A Review of Granny Made Me an Anarchist
Monday, March 30th, 2009Roots of My Radicalism: A Review of Granny Made Me an Anarchist
Eleanor J. Bader From the March 20, 2009 issue of the Indypendent
Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, the Angry Brigade and Me By Stuart Christie AK Press, 2007
Growing up, many of us got from Granny what we didn’t get from Mom or Dad: [...]