Reviews of AK Books
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011Thanks to Gabriel San Roman for conducting this great interview! Take a look to see what the hip-hop mixtape has to do with colonialism, how the mixtape can be used as a journalistic tool, and even how the nickname The Funkinest Journalist came about. Check out the original posting of the article in the OC [...]
‘Peace, Love & Petrol Bombs’ Reviewed on PopMatters!
Friday, June 3rd, 2011We are delighted to report that our upcoming novel (our second fiction book in recent years) has received a rave pre-publication review on PopMatters! Reviewer John L. Murphy says: “This young Scots burger-flipper turned street protester tells what happened a decade ago in a fast-food kitchen, a small town, and at the barricades of anti-capitalist [...]
AK Press Working Classics Series reviewed in PMR
Monday, May 16th, 2011Paul J. Comeau over at the Political Media Review has admirably tackled the job of reviewing our entire Working Classics series. Check it out below, and be sure to checkout PMR’s web site too. . . AK Press Working Classics Series Reviewed by Paul J. Comeau Anyone looking to educate themselves on the history and [...]
A new Kate Sharpley Library Bulletin!
Sunday, April 24th, 2011It’s been a while since I’ve visited the Kate Sharpley Library’s website. I checked it out again today after receiving an email announcing the new issue of KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library (no. 66, for those who are counting). The Bulletin itself is, as usual, full of fascinating material…including the rescue of another [...]
Aspirations & Realities: Cindy Milstein’s book reviewed on ZNet
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011Longtime friends & comrades Chris Dixon and Jamie McCallum just wrote an excellent review of Cindy Milstein’s Anarchism and Its Aspirations, which is up on ZNet now. Check it out! Cindy’s book, the first in our co-publishing collaboration with the Institute for Anarchist Studies, has really been a hit since its release last year, and [...]
Signs of Change reviewed in Afterimage
Monday, April 11th, 2011A full report on this weekend’s tabling insanity is forthcoming, but one nice thing that happened for me in NYC is that I got to see (briefly) my friend Daniel Tucker (co-editor of Chronicle Books’s Farm Together Now) who passed along the text of a review he just wrote of Signs of Change for Afterimage. [...]
Whirlwinds reviewed in Make/Shift, Doris Zine, and DotRad!
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011As Kevin van Meter of Team Colors reminded me just a few days ago, we’re quickly approaching the one-year anniversary of the publication of Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States. Crazy! I can’t believe it’s been almost a year since we launched the book at the 2010 [...]
History for the precariat: The Believer on Signs of Change
Monday, January 31st, 2011Have y’all ever read The Believer? It’s a literary magazine founded in 2003 in San Francisco, by Dave Eggers of McSweeney’s fame. (Incidentally, Eggers’s What Is the What? has one of my favorite book cover designs in recent years.) The idea behind The Believer was to provide a space for writers to talk about reading, [...]
Paul Craig Roberts Reviews Fear of the Animal Planet on Counterpunch
Thursday, January 13th, 2011Thanks to Paul Craig Roberts and our friends over at Counterpunch for this great review of Fear of the Animal Planet. Check out the original review here. A Brief for Animals By Paul Craig Roberts Jason Hribal in a book just off the CounterPunch/AK press, Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal [...]
Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution — Book Review
Saturday, January 8th, 2011Nice, in-depth review of Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World. It comes from the Parasol Climate Collective, and appeared on the Institute for Anarchist Studies website. ———- All Power to the People: Energy Production and the Climate Crisis by Lara Messersmith-Glavin, for Parasol Climate Collective A review [...]
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