The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism by Trevor Aaronson
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown, Simon Armitage (Translator)
Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 1 by John Barber
Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 2 by John Barber
Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 3 by John Barber
Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 4 by John Barber
Transformers: Robots In Disguise Volume 5 by John Barber
Transformers: Robots in Disguise Volume 6 by John Barber
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman by Harold Bloom
The Black Elfstone (The Fall of Shannara, #1) by Terry Brooks
Enter Naomi: SST, L.A. and All That... by Joe Carducci
The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino
The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto by Jessa Crispin
Captain Marvel (Marvel NOW!) #1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Star Trek: Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay by Harlan Ellison
The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition by Friedrich Engels
Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings by Manny Farber
Essays, Speeches & Public Letters by William Faulkner
The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Tim Ferriss
When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World by Leon Festinger
Clinton in Haiti: The 1994 US Invasion of Haiti by Philippe Girard
Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984 by Ian Glasper
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Philosophy of Tragedy by Christopher Hamilton
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation by Blake J. Harris
A People's History of the French Revolution by Eric Hazan
Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?) by J. Hoberman
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign by Michael K. Honey
Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies by bell hooks
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Perpetual Peace and Other Essays by Immanuel Kant
The Future is Queer: A Science Fiction Anthology by Richard Labonté
Engaging the Past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge by Alison Landsberg
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories by Nella Larsen
Wellsprings by Mario Vargas Llosa
Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer
My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor by Keith Morris
Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore by Albert Mudrian
A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey by Kevin Murphy
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right by Angela Nagle
Employee of the Month and Other Big Deals by Mary Jo Pehl
Visual Storytellling: An Illustrated Reader by Todd James Pierce
Why Be Something That You're Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985 by Tony Rettman
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution by Heather Rogers
Get In The Van: On The Road With Black Flag (Second Edition) by Henry Rollins
American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson
Lazarus, Vol. 1: Family by Greg Rucka
Der Mond: The Art of Neon Genesis Evangelion by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat by J. Sakai
A New Companion to Digital Humanities by Susan Schreibman
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
Change Agent by Daniel Suarez
Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain
Saga, Vol. 1 (Saga, #1) by Brian K. Vaughan
Saga, Vol. 2 (Saga, #2) by Brian K. Vaughan
A Brief History of Portable Literature by Enrique Vila-Matas
Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson
The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople by Susan Wise Bauer
How Fiction Works by James Wood
No Slam Dancing, No Stage Diving, No Spikes: An Oral History of the Legendary City Gardens by Amy Yates Wuelfing
What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States by Dave Zirin

Christy Dena’s insightful response to Jane McGonigal’s essay The Puppet Master Problem: Design For Real World, Mission-Based Gaming from the Second Person anthology.
Michael Filas review of N. Katherine Hayles’ My Mother Was A Computer: Digital Subjects & Literary Texts.
Daniel Green reviews the new James Wood book in the new issue of Open Letters Monthly.

Meanwhile…

The New Yorker piece on Obama’s early years in Chicago politics is another indicator he is just as scummy and slimy as the next politician. Making the right friends, the right votes, the right influences; you might counter by saying “that’s politics” but I say that if you take part in that crap, I blame you. I’d rather have no government than one filled with slimeballs. None of the above…yet again…in 2008.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn recently passed away. When we moved to Manahawkin, I remember the first friend I made was reading The Gulag Archipelago at the time. We started to bond while discussing that and other books.
Io9 offers a guide for fans of the modern Doctor Who series who wish to get into the classic series.
Veronica Esposito comments on the amazing ending of The Mill On The Floss and links to a review of the novel from a 1860 issue of The Atlantic.
PETA still sucks as much as I remember.

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