Inspired by the filmmaker Frederick Wiseman’s documentation of historic institutions, Post Post by filmmaker Bianca Giaever, offers a portrait of one the most cherished fixtures of American life: the United States Postal Service.
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NORMAN'S BEST... Gaza's Gravediggers publishes TODAY Norman Finkelstein's most damning work yet, a devastating exposé of international duplicity and complicity in the Gaza genocide. Buy direct, this one shouldn't line Amazon's pockets. orbooks.com/catalog/gaza...
With over 17,000 members, Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Co-op is the country’s largest collectively owned and managed grocery store and as such, the largest of its kind to boycott the sale of Israeli products.
"Raha Nik-Andish, an Iranian writer living in Tehran, has risked his life to give the world an account of survival under the U.S. and Israel’s bombs. We owe it to him to listen" Review of TEHRAN DIARIES in @currentaffairs.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-voi...
The Voice of an Ordinary Iranian
Raha Nik-Andish, an Iranian writer living in Tehran, has risked his life to give the world an account of survival under the U.S. and Israel’s bombs. We owe it to him to listen.
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As Ben-Gvir tries to take Al-Aqsa in Occupied East Jerusalem, we were reminded of these passages from The Pen and the Olive Branch, a collection of David Hirst's writings, following how Jerusalem's religious sites were systematically seized and repurposed by Zionists.
Wolfgang Kaleck, human rights lawyer and founder of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, @ecchr.bsky.social asks if the rule of law can survive an age of permanent war. Pre-order at 15% off, books ship very soon! orbooks.com/catalog/the-...
The Power of Law
What good is the law? From Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the international community’s failure to enforce the ICC arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu over alleged war crimes, the foundations o...
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Christos Georgalas, worked at Nasser Hospital, Gaza's largest functioning hospital, during the spring of 2025 Urgent Care brings together notes and photographs he took while living at the hospital, and features an intro by acclaimed British-Palestinian author Isabella Hammad.
DEMOCRATISE OR DIE A bold plan to save the BBC by democratising it. In this intervention, three leading media policy experts (inc. @tommills.bsky.social) warn the BBC will not survive its fast-approaching Charter Review unless its popular legitimacy is reinvigorated.
Rosa Luxemburg’s Herbarium presents the first-ever translation of the collection, featuring flowers she found on prison grounds, personal letters detailing her fascination with nature, and an analysis of her ecological critique of colonial capitalism orbooks.com/catalog/rosa...
Marxist theorist Rosa Luxemburg is known for her writings on imperialism and revolution and her annual commemoration on Jan 15, when thousands of left-wing groups march through Berlin to the Socialists' Cemetery. Luxemburg left behind another, lesser-known legacy: her herbarium.
Looking for birds can imbue life with joy. Personal essays and poetry from leading Black birders reveal birding’s power to build community and advance racial and environmental justice.
Join OR Books and Lux Magazine for the launch of ROSA LUXEMBURG'S HERBARIUM with the author Claudia Horn and Lux editor Cora Currier at the 6&B Garden in the East Village on 9/2 at 6:30pm @readlux.bsky.social RSVP required here www.eventbrite.com/e/1996654775...
When @orbooks.bsky.social asked me who my dream book cover design artist would be, there was only one name: Molly. I never thought she would do it. But she fucking DID! And she keeps DOING the GODDAMN THING and our world is more beautiful and less hopeless because of her. ❤️✊🏽
Beirut has been destroyed and rebuilt again and again. What does it mean to call such a place home? Lebanese writer Lina Mounzer traces the city’s tangled history of war, economic collapse, and catastrophe alongside her own memories of life there. Illustrated by Jana Traboulsi.
A group of leading experts offers a progressive blueprint for a foreign policy that answers to voters instead of defense contractors and Super PACs Co-publishing with @thenation.com and edited by @mattduss.bsky.social A World For All is available for pre-order now: orbooks.com/catalog/a-wo...
A World For All
A progressive blueprint for a foreign policy that answers to voters instead of donors, defense contractors, and Super PACs.
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Check out my discussion on the Radical Therapist pod about the book: pocketcasts.com/podcast/the-...
The Radical Therapist Podcast #149 - Personal Responsibility, Inc. with Julie Tilsen, PhD
What if therapy has become too good at helping people adapt to conditions that should never have been accepted in the first place? In this episode of The Radical Therapist Podcast, Chris sits down…
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I went into reading Ape Sh*t thinking the history of Capuchin service monkeys was wrong and dumb, but there is so much depth to how wrong (removing their teeth, using shock training) and dumb (still biting people and pissing/jacking off on them, shitting whenever they were shocked) it was.
OR Books@orbooks.bsky.social · last mo.APESH*T IS HERE! The zine that looks at the often sordid relationship between humans and other primate species 🐒 now shipping orbooks.com/catalog/ape-... @monkeywire.bsky.social
Increasingly, therapy functions as an arm of neoliberal ideology—reinforcing its imperatives of personal responsibility, individualism, and relentless self-improvement. Personal Responsibility by @queeringtherapist.bsky.social is now shipping!
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY BY @queeringtherapist.bsky.social IS NOW SHIPPING orbooks.com/catalog/pers...
Garrison Lovely, author of the forthcoming OBSOLETE, talks AI news and risks with Krystal Ball on Breaking Points. @krystalball.bsky.social @garrisonlovely.bsky.social
"David Griscom’s new book The Myth of Red Texas undoes the idea of Texas as a place with conservatism inherent to its political bloodline" interview with @davidgriscom.bsky.social in @thenation.com orbooks.com/catalog/the-... www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Texas’s DNA Doesn’t Run As Red as the Right Wants You to Think
David Griscom’s new book “The Myth of Red Texas” undoes the idea of Texas as a place with conservatism inherent to its political bloodline.
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Writer, musician and author of VOICE OVER, @sashafrerejones.bsky.social has appeared in The Village Voice, The Nation, 4Columns, The New Left Review and The New Yorker. In VOICE OVER, he explores the life and legacy of the enigmatic Chris Marker, attempting to pull Marker into the light, lovingly.
Writer, translator, and author of JANUS CITY, Lina Mounzer has been featured in Equator, The Paris Review, Freeman's, and The Baffler. Weaving together the personal with the political, JANUS CITY is lyrical, searching, and singular. Subscribe to OR SHORTS to read JANUS CITY at the link in our bio.
APESH*T IS HERE! The zine that looks at the often sordid relationship between humans and other primate species 🐒 now shipping orbooks.com/catalog/ape-... @monkeywire.bsky.social
Organizer, researcher, professor and author of CO-OP, Lauren Hudson follows the story of the Park Slope Food Co-op in its effort to boycott the sale of all Israeli products. CO-OP is timely and curious, driven by Hudson's distinct voice. Subscribe to OR SHORTS to read CO-OP at the link in our bio.
Internationally recognized surgeon, longtime humanitarian volunteer, and author of URGENT CARE, Christos Georgalas brings us notes and photographs from his time living and working at Nasser Hospital, during one of the darkest periods in Palestine's history. Subscribe at the link in our bio.
One of the more memorable moments from the interview… Hasan Piker struggling to contain his laughter after Norman Finkelstein calls Donald Trump a… well, you’ll have to watch to find out 👀
Norman speaks to Hasan Piker about why he wrote Gaza's Gravediggers orbooks.com/catalog/gaza...