A rousing commentary on the history of labor and the future of work. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlanticwriters, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine’s 165-year a...

In this fun, fresh, fat-positive anthology, fat activist and sex educator Virgie Tovar brings together voices from an often-marginalized community to talk about and celebrate their lives. Hot & Heavy rejects the idea that being thin i...

Positive Thinking in a Dark Age is a collection of fourteen essays written over the past fifteen years by visionary activist, thinker and teacher, Jim Tull. In a contentious world where social action usually means either direct aid or...

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In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and in...

In the manner of Calvino's Invisible Cities, Wendy S. Walters's essays deftly explore the psyches of cities such as Chicago, Detroit, New York, Portsmouth, and Washington, D.C. In "Cleveland," she interviews an African-Ameri...

Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories and works of social commentary, satire, biography and autobiography, although he is best-remembered today for his science fiction...

Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishin...

Read Evan Wright's posts on the Penguin Blog. The New York Times bestselling author of Generation Kill immerses himself in even more cultures on the edge. Evan Wright's affinity for outsiders has inspired this deeply personal jour...

The award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Generation Kill, whose style Newsweek says 'owes more to Hunter S. Thompson than to any sort of political correctness,' offers a reporter's immersion in outsider cultures.

The American anarchist, primitivist philosopher, and author John Zerzan critiques agriculture-based civilization as inherently oppressive and advocates drawing upon the life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what free society ...