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Bakunin
Mark Leier
What is anarchy? Where did it come from? And what role does it — or should it — play in the social movements of today? In this lively biography, author Mark Leier tells the story of Mikhail Bakunin and of the infamous theory for which he is known.
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Voices of a People’s History of the United States, Second Edition
Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove
Updated and expanded in honor of the upcoming release of the History Channel’s documentary The People Speak, Voices of a People’s History brings together a symphony of our nation’s original voices, rich in ideas and actions, the embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent wherein lies our nation’s true spirit of defiance and resilience.
Special Items
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The Old Garden: First Five Chapters
“Undoubtedly the most powerful voice of the novel in East Asia.” — Kenzaburo Oe on Hwang Sok-Yong, author of The Old Garden
A serialization of the first five chapters of Hwang Sok-yong’s The Old Garden ran on this site from September 1 to November 3, 2009. Click the book cover to read it from the beginning.
Seven Stories Spotlight 
As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Stay In Denial
“A great read, a groundbreaking volume of graphic literature and a political polemic of the first order.” — Ted Rall
Presenting the color webcomic edition of As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Stay In Denial by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan. New pages go up on Tuesdays and Thursdays of every week.
Click the thumbnail image to read the most recent page.
First Page | Browse All Pages | Most Recent Page
(Like what you read? Can’t wait to see what happens next? Help support this project by picking up a copy of the original graphic novel from Seven Stories Press.)
In the News 
TheQueerist interviews Sabrina Chapadjiev
March 10, 2010
Courtney Gillette: … Is there a queer sensibility to your music/your performances? How would you describe it?
Sabrina Chapadjiev: Well, all of the songs off the album are about exes, which have been women, so in that sense, yes, there is a queer sensibility there. Although it sort of surprised me that some people haven’t gotten that [my songs are queer]. I play with one particular band quite a bit—they open up for me and I open up for them. The main singer knows I’m queer, and finally he was like, “But you don’t say that in your songs.”
Now, there are songs where I straight up am talking about a woman— I mean, I couldn’t get more specific in “Idiom.” But then there are songs like “Little White House,” where I have the lyric:
A kid on the way
due sometime in May
we’ll dance in the kitchen while the radio plays
You’ll bring home the bacon
I’ll try a new recipe
In our little white house with a key
I was like, “Oh. . . I guess I could see why you were confused. . . but I was still talking about a girl there. I just like butch girls. And I like to cook.” He was like, “Oh.”
Sonia Shah: TED conference lecturer exploits African women & children
March 9, 2010
From Sonia Shah’s article at Ms. about Nathan Myhrvold and the idea of using lasers to eliminate malaria in Africa:
… At the annual techno-hip TED conference in February, Myhrvold decided to up the ante, tapping into the misery of millions of rural African women and their families to wrap his business in a cloak of moral urgency. “Every 43 seconds a child dies of malaria,” he told the crowd. And current anti-malaria interventions, many of which target the rural African women and children who are malaria’s main victims, don’t work that well, he said. Insecticides can be environmentally dangerous and some people use anti-mosquito bednets to catch fish instead.
That’s why Myhrvold came up with his latest invention: A mini-”Star Wars” weapons system that tracks mosquitoes in the air and shoots them down mid-flight–with lasers, of course. Like a Death Ray. All you need to make one is a Blu-ray player and a laser printer, plus a few months of processing time on a supercomputer, and voila!: you’re on your way to eradicating malaria in Africa for good.
Oh. My.
Multimedia 
Ralph Nader at Montgomery College: Can Someone Super-Rich Save Us?
From February 2010, here’s Ralph Nader at Montgomery College speaking about his first work of fiction, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us, about the future of activism, and about the power of imagination.
Web Spotlight
Independent Booksellers of NYC
The first thing you’ll want to do when you go to the Independent Booksellers of NYC website is to check out the massive list of bookstores you can shop at without fear of contributing to the ever-growing monopolization of the book market. The second thing you’ll want to do is to subscribe to the IBNYC mailing list to get updates on independent bookstore events, offers, and other news to keep you in the loop and to keep independent bookstores alive. Independent Booksellers of NYC does God’s work basically—check them out!
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The Black Body
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Bakunin
Mark Leier
A lively biography of the founding father of anarchism.
