The Indypendent
Books
When Women Take on Mass Incarceration
If you feel fed-up with criminal justice reform efforts touted by the Koch brothers that leave our prison industrial…
Another biography of Harvey Milk?’ I thought with a twinge of annoyance when I saw Lillian Faderman’s latest book,…
2 Centuries, 10 Strikes: Erik Loomis Offers an Insightful History of American Labor
With public support for unions surging, historian Erik Loomis has produced a timely book called A History of America…
Power Up: A History of Energy and the People Behind It
In the late 19th century, horses hauled wood culled from North America’s great forests in order to heat and…
Bill Fletcher Tackles Identity, Race and Small Town Murder With ‘The Man Who Fell From The Sky’
“Race” as a biological category differentiating humans has been a spurious and discredited marker for more than a century.…
‘Sketchtasy,’ A Novel of Coming of Age Amid AIDS
Lambda Literary Award winner Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore has described herself as “a genderqueer faggot, and a queen, on the…
What if you had your own guaranteed income, six month’s paid maternal leave, free health care and government-subsidized daycare? …
The Rise, Fall and Redemption of Two of Rock’s Great Radicals
Radical politics, drugs and rock ’n’ roll — and winding up in prison — are the common threads between…