Two years before Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine, a single mom and her four children shot a documentary film about daily life in the Donbas region, which was already torn by fighting between the two sides.
Marx Meets the Vampire Genre: An Excerpt from Nicholas Powers’ First Novel
In the following excerpt from the upcoming novel Thirst, Indypendent Contributing Editor Nicholas Powers introduces us into a world that is a more truthful version of our own reality.
A Book for People Who Want to Know More About a Land with a People
Fresh perspectives on the Palestine-Israel conflict as well as what peaceful coexistence could look like.
In Search of Utopia: New Book Explores the Troubled History of America’s Intentional Communities
When teacher-writer Adrian Shirk began working on Heaven is a Place on Earth, she set out to create a…
A grieving widow and an untamable horse are at the center of this heartfelt meditation on freedom, love, patience and compromise.
Human History, Retold by David Graeber
Anthropologist David Graeber’s final book is an epic, ambitious romp through the past 30,000 years of social evolution.
With the pandemic entering its third year in a country exhausted by a dysfunctional political system, how do we regain a healthy sense of humor to help see us through this mess?
Know Thy Enemy: New Book Celebrates Chip Berlet’s 40 Years of Tracking Rightwing Movements
Chip Berlet recognized the importance of studying both the religious and secular right when others on the left thought it unnecessary or even silly.
Bluestockings Cooperative is New York City’s only trans, queer and sex worker-run bookstore, cafe and gathering space.
Alex Harsley is a Portal to an Earlier New York
Photos provided by the artist. On the north side of East 4th Street, between Bowery and Second Avenue, in…