A Puff of Absurdity: Michael Mann’s New Climate War
It’s not all that new. There are tons of books on this topic now, so it would be hard to find a completely new angel. But the public still needs to learn the basics, and Mann does a good enough job of...
View ArticleWritings of J. Todd Ring: The Power Elite: What Every Thinking Person Needs...
C. Wright Mills’, The Power Elite, is unquestionably one of the most important books ever written in sociology, social theory, social philosophy, social psychology or political-economy – and it of...
View ArticleKersplebedeb: Books Recently Added to LeftWingBooks.net
Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism The World Turned Inside Out: Settler Colonialism as a Political...
View ArticleKersplebedeb: New Books Now Available on LeftWingBooks.net from AK Press, PM...
Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism Poets of the Chinese...
View ArticleKersplebedeb: New Books Now Available on LeftWingBooks.net!
The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough Uncomputable: Play and Politics In the...
View ArticleKersplebedeb: Interviews with On Necrocapitalism contributors
As the pandemic transitioned from science fiction to reality in early 2020, a number of writers and thinkers in the imperialist metropoles declared the impossibility of writing in the face of a future...
View ArticleKersplebedeb: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David...
The Dawn of Everything is now available at LeftWingBooks.net NATIONAL BESTSELLER,NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with professor of...
View ArticleKersplebedeb: The Radical Promise of Human History: A Review of “The Dawn of...
[This review originally appeared in the Boston Review, November 3, 2021.] The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity David Graeber and David Wengrow [Available now at LeftWingBooks.net] The...
View Articlesamupress: Samupress has new LondOntLife Books soon!
20 pages and 56 cartoons 6 by 8 inches perfect bound 76 cartoons in the big parade 26 pages saddle stitch It’s A LondOntLife #4 has been ready to go since last year. Without the local London Comic Con,...
View Articlesamupress: Samupress has new LondOntLife Books soon!
20 pages and 56 cartoons 6 by 8 inches perfect bound 76 cartoons in the big parade 26 pages saddle stitch It’s A LondOntLife #4 has been ready to go since last year. Without the local London Comic Con,...
View Articlecentre of the universe: Who puts the ‘D’ in….”Dystopia”?
Okay first, right off the hop, let me just say that yes, like a twelve-year-old, I have been snickering at the question “who puts the ‘D’ in ‘Dystopia’”. Dystopian fiction used to be among my favourite...
View Articlecentre of the universe: Iskocēs Tipiskak: A Spark in the Dark – Book Review
Have you ever had one of those experiences where something comes at you out of the dark and ends up being a pleasant surprise? A time where you weren’t expecting anything but something happened anyway?...
View Articlesamupress: Samupress has new LondOntLife Books soon!
20 pages and 56 cartoons 6 by 8 inches perfect bound 76 cartoons in the big parade 26 pages saddle stitch It’s A LondOntLife #4 has been ready to go since last year. Without the local London Comic Con,...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: On Claims of Porn in Schools
There’s a call to arms on a social media from a few people who think the memoir in graphic novel form, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe (e/em/eir pronouns), should be removed from shelves in school...
View ArticleTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: When a Book Hits So...
When I was very young, I wished for some big event to happen to me, something truly dramatic – tragic, even. I hadn’t yet heard the expression “Be careful what you wish for.” I was 16 when my father...
View ArticleWelcome to samupress: It’s a LondOntLife #6 begins
83 cartoons across 52 pages It’s a Londontlife#6 is at the printers for proofs. It’s always exciting for the new book to come out. And this one is packed with 83 cartoons – a record – over 52 5×7 inch...
View Articlemark a. rayner: Introducing Re-Creative, a podcast about creativity and the...
After years of threatening, I’ve finally started a podcast: Re-Creative. Actually, that’s not really true. My co-host, Joe Mahoney, is really the one to credit… The post Introducing Re-Creative, a...
View ArticleTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: Mother Lode: Confessions...
When Dr. Zachary White and I were in the research phase of writing The Unexpected Journey of Caring, we talked about a phenomenon that we were observing in caregiver support groups online. Zachary...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: Frankl’s Phases of Life in the Camps
My lovely friend and former colleague recently passed away unexpectedly. The kindest people go far too soon. We also went to teacher’s college together over 30 years ago, and his quips and just the...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: Maté: Part Depth Psychology, but Part Questionable Quick...
He received the Order of Canada, profoundly helped many people with addiction on the streets of Vancouver, and is much loved and admired, but some of Dr. Gabor Maté’s claims feel like they don’t hold...
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