The Conversations by Cesar Aira
Culture & Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
Transformers Volume 7: Combiner Wars by John Barber
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett
The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason by Chapo Trape House
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution by David L. Craddock
Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America by Cathy Davidson
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
The Oxford Companion To Shakespeare by Michael Dobson
White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race by Stephen Duncombe
Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse by Annette Fuentes
The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs by Ray Ginger
The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980–1984 by Ian Glasper
Classic GI Joe Volume One by Steven Grant
More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing by Jesse Hagopian
Long Shot: The Triumphs and Struggles of an NBA Freedom Fighter by Craig Hodges
The Odyssey by Homer (Barry Powell translation)
The Odyssey by Homer (Emily Wilson translation)
Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1989 by George Hurchalla
Pillars of Society by Henrik Ibsen
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History Of Racial Inequality In Twentieth Century America by Ira Katznelson
All Labor Has Dignity by Martin Luther King Jr.
Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties by Amanda Littauer
The People of the Abyss by Jack London
Liberalism: A Counter History by Domenico Losurdo
How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and his Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate by Wendy Moore
The Mosaic of Islam by Suleiman Mourad
The Law of the Father? Patriarchy in the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism by Mary Murray
Crazy Like A Fox: The Definitive Chronicle of Brian Pillman 20 Years Later by Liam O'Rourke
Good Nintentions: 30 Years of NES: An Unofficial Survey of the Nintendo Entertainment System by Jeremy Parish
Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England by Mary Poovey
Black Panther: The Complete Collection Volume One by Christopher Priest
The Death of WCW (10th Anniversary Edition) by RD Deynolds
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Transformers: Combiner Wars by Mairghread Scott
Shakespeare's Hamlet: Manga Edition by William Shakespeare
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro
Nabakov's Shakespeare by Samuel Schuman
Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals by Jonathan Smucker
Space Is The Place: The Lives & Times Of Sun Ra by John F. Szwed
Shakespeare, Dissent, and the Cold War by Alfred Thomas
Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Fool's Gold by David Tipton
English Novel in History, 1895-1920 (The Novel in History) by David Trotter
The Illogic of Kassel by Enrique Vila-Matas
Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England by Garthine Walker
The New Atheist Threat: The Dangerous Rise of Secular Extremists by CJ Werleman
Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer
Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages by Ellen Meiksins Wood

I spent a lot of time over spring break clearing out bookmarks and saved articles from Instapaper. Normally I post this list when I get to ten, but here are twenty articles worth reading:

The New York Times on a swatter that finally got caught after years of swatting.
A podcast about the app Yik Yak, which is totally dead near me but has fascinating, good and bad, uses elsewhere.
Some of the family members of Sandy Hook victims have been terrorized by the solipsistic, egomaniac, "Truther" movement.
This interview with Arsene Wenger is fascinating.
I am sharing these writing tips with my students this semester.
Roqayah Chamseddine has become one of the most important voices in my daily social media life on a variety of issues, but particularly the connection between mainstream feminism and the right wing ideals of Hilary Clinton and other neoliberals. Over two essays, Rejecting Bourgeois Feminism, and The Problem With Bourgeois Feminist Defenses of Hilary Clinton she strongly criticizes "white feminists" for their allegiance to destructive liberal ideas. I used to have a lot of respect for at least one of the people Chamseddine mentions and it is sad to see, and they certainly aren't the only ones, how so many have fallen to liberalism* and its destructive ideas of war mongering, union bashing, and shilling for Wall Street. *Plus attacking women for being "crazy," and "hysterical" as seen in the linked articles. How liberal of them.
I always love interviews with Junot Diaz and this one is no exception.
51 years after his assassination, Jacobin looks at the legacy of Malcolm X. I teach his essay Coming To An Awareness of Language every semester and it is always one of the most popular with students.
An excerpt from Liza Featherstone's upcoming book about the faux feminism of Hilary Clinton.
Nicole M. Aschoff on a feminism without capitalism.
FAIR's excellent tribute to Ben Bagdikian. Reading his book The Media Monopoly as a teenager absolutely changed the direction of my life; I will be forever grateful to him.
Black Agenda Report on Miriam Makeba.
Liliana Segura on Hilary Clinton's indefensible stance on the death penalty. Bernie Sanders' support of drones is not much better.
On the "goddamned exploitative farce" that is academic publishing.
Evan Narcisse on the politics of Black Panther.
Grant Wahl on the incredible story of Leicester City.

Books Read In 2018

Worth Reading: Spring Break Edition