Indignez-vous! (Time for Outrage)
From The Nation. Toward the end of 2010, a small book by a 93-year-old man unexpectedly reached the summit of the best-seller list in France. Indignez-vous! by Stéphane Hessel sold more than 600,000 copies between October and the end of December. Stéphane Hessel, born in 1917, grew up in a rich literary milieu, authoring novels […]
Doublespeak
In honor of the new year, Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency, his cabinet of misinformation, and the lies being propagated as truths (or alternate facts), we hereby reprint George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” from 1946. By the way, Orwell’s “1984,” as well as Huxley’s “Brave New World,” both staples of the counter-culture […]
Art Sex Music
Cosey Fanni Tutti. co-temptress along with Genesis P-Orridge of COUM Transmissions, the quintessential 1960s/70s performance and mail art group, and co-founder of ground-breaking prototypical Industrial Music group Throbbing Gristle, has just announced her long-awaited memoir, Art Sex Music, which will be published in the UK in early 2017. COUM Transmissions was a confrontational and subversive […]
Grove Press Publisher Barney Rosset, Champion of Free Speech, Dies
In 1963 — still a fresh-faced high school student just beginning to feel the need to step out and express myself, to maybe “revolt” against the staid and stunting middle-class rules and regulations that governed my school and social life — I was working on my uncle Mort’s parking lots in Los Angeles and Beverly […]
The People Speak: Howard Zinn
With the death on January 27 of historian Howard Zinn (author of “A People’s History of the United States,” the first book to present American history through the eyes of working people rather than political and economic elites), we wanted to call to your attention the release of Zinn’s DVD “The People Speak” on February […]
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