Like Whitman, Langston Hughes, and Allen Ginsberg before her, Benka expresses a profound regard for the possibility of America, while delineating the many ways in which America fails to deliver on its promise.

Inspired by the recent Abu Ghraib torture photos, this is Griffith's journey through the vast catalogue of violent and sexual images that have accumulated in our collective unconscious, a journey he seeks to understand through filters ranging from Flannery O'Connor to Susan Sontag to Andy Warhol.

A memoir examining the AIDS epidemic from a global, spiritual, and physical perspective, and the shifting territory where those perspectives meet, by a journalist and Yoga teacher living with AIDS.

Now available! And at a 40% discount! Free the slaves! Let them eat Snox Boxes! Blade Runner meets The Jetsons. See the preview here!

The long awaited collection from the writer Robert Christgau called, "one of the funniest men in Manhattan."


Now available for pre-order on Amazon.com!

“[A] welcome antidote to the encomiums heaped upon America’s mayor after Sept. 11th, 2001 by so many people who forgot or never bothered to find out where Mr. Giuliani stood on Sept 10.”

"A spirited, scholarly analysis of the prominence of the gun in American history and mythology. Bellesiles combines the techniques and discipline of the historian with the skills of a felicitous journalist to identify the causes of the "astoundingly high level of personal violence" in the US…. A timely and powerful text that reverberates with the explosions of treasured American myths."

The beautifully rendered and breathtakingly intimate self-portrait of a celebrated icon of gay Parisian life.

An effort to better understand how young black fathers relate to their children, as well as their own fathers, and to better understand their roles in families and communities.

With its journalistic approach to Islams intersection with race, gender, and Americanization, "Blue-Eyed Devil" offers a brutally honest but ultimately compassionate look at the marginalized underground of Islamic America.

A street-wise take on graffiti-writing, break-dancing, and hip-hop.

A humorous Christmas book about Santa’s Elves who are tired of being third-rate drones in his oppressive sweatshop.

A young American writer's exploration of the many youth subcultures developing in China, one of the fastest-changing countries in the world. A Barnes & Noble Summer 2009 Discover Great New Writers Selections

A young woman on fire in Rio de Janeiro on the last day of her life - a remarkable novel from a writer named by LIRE as one of the top 50 writers to watch out for in the 21st century.

What's a young person with money AND progressive politics to do?
Classified is a resource that speaks specifically to people of privilege through comics, essays, and personal stories.

Takes the vision of Hakim Bey's "Temporary Autonomous Zones," the incisiveness of Naomi Klein in her seminal treatise No Logo, and youthful idiosyncratic passion of William Upksi Wimsatt, and creates a new vision of political possibility for Generation Y. Click to download a sample chapter!

Confronting Capitalism is an updated and expanded edition of The Battle of Seattle, originally published in spring 2002. The new edition offers updated articles, a new piece by Michael Hardt and reports and theory from the global South, including Nigeria and South Africa. The book features contributions from Naomi Klein, Stanley Aronowitz, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Eric Drooker, Barbara Epstein, Alexander Cockburn and many more. An important handbook for in the classroom or on the streets, Confronting Capitalism invites readers to join the intensive debates within the anti-globalization movement and to make some history of their own.

"Goldberg and Pittelman have written a compelling rationale and step-by-step guide that will transform how we do philanthropy for social change. These wise young philanthropists know that control over huge amounts of wealth cannot be left solely to the very small number of individuals who are wealthy. Sharing the power to decide where the money goes with social change activists and organizations, even transferring power to them, is crucial to success. In a world where inequality is a crisis threatening the well-being of all of us, we must find a way to distribute resources and power more equitably. This book tells us how. Buy it and use it!"

Are India and China in a race to dominate development in the twenty-first century?

A riveting view into the magnetic appeal of cult television, the science of the cult TV formula, and the genre’s ever-loyal following.

Always funny, frequently cringe-inducing, and often touching collection that is certain to connect with the millions of American men and women that work or have at one time or another worked in retail.

The only book to combine environmental victories in the sustainable-use movement with hands-on, participatory options for country and city dwellers.

“It is simply unreasonable to expect the government to depend exclusively upon the virtuous in enforcing the law” —United States v. Cervantes-Pacheco

Soft Skull's Deep Focus series allows film criticism to take a novel turn in this dynamic new series.

Ever wonder how roller derby began? What the hell is going on during a bout? Whether you’re woman enough to don a pair of skates? Now you’ll know.

A devastating history and personal portrait of the hidden conflict and humanitarian crisis in Burma.

"A sublimely frisky novel…[Fountain at the Center of the World] reads like what you’d get if Tom Wolfe clambered inside the head of Noam Chomsky.... The talismanic Catch-22 of the anti-globalization protest movement, the fictional complement to Naomi Klein’s influential treatise No Logo.... As ferocious as a jar of freeze-dried Paul Krugman columns.”

A provocative book on trade policy that argues that opponents of free trade have abandoned liberalism and are playing into the hands of the very corporations and business conservatives they claim to oppose.

"Stan Goff has written a brilliant book with both heart and acerbic wit. For civilian readers, it offers often astounding stories of military practice and thinking. Military readers will recognize their experiences, while seeing them interpreted in a radically new way. No one will go away unchallenged or unchanged.

The most original cartoon to emerge since . . . well ever. Raw, enraged, sardonic, hilarious, despairing, and impossible to pigeonhole.

A startling look at the phenomenon of school and workplace shootings in America—newly expanded and updated.

The first collection of work from a rising young star of the American theater. PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST IN DRAMA.

Characterized as "one of the best...German novels to be published since the dawn of the new millennium," by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, GUANTANAMO is a modern classic prison novel, an implicit indictment of the Guantanamo gulag, and a novel of fierce moral and descriptive clarity.

The most important political book of the year!

Sarajevo. Jerusalem. Kabul. Belfast. Kosovo. Gaza. Basra. NYC. Every place where recent history advertises the stubbornness, intolerance, bloodlust and cowardice that sullies our collective record: there the intrepid Mueller goes, talking to the perpetrators, the fools and the optimists.

The leading voice of American Muslim punk sorts through a lifetime of zealotry, disillusionment, and clashing identity in search of balance and resolution.

Color inside the lines or be smote! (Pre-order now)

Fear and Loathing in Mecca

As technology changes the way we read and write, thirty of our favorite writers share their fears, skepticism, and hopes for the future of the book.

An inspird and inspiring truth teller, dangerous and brave and scary all at once.

Offers a provocative but proven transformative message - *fairness* creates the foundation for real couple partnership.

A political "historieta" in which Mr. Spic indeed goes to Washington, a satirical tale about norteno Latinos taking over the capital.

Urban Life, Home-Schooling, Hip-Hop Leadership, the Cool Rich Kids Movement, a Hitchhiker's Guide to Community Organizing, and Why Philanthropy Is the Greatest Art Form of the 21st Century!

New and selected poems from the 20 years of Kevin Powell's poetry.

A masterfully crafted literary and philosophical tour-de-force that moves from the poetic to the hilarious to the dreamily apocalyptic, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart imagines the small foibles and grand moral negotiations of the "genius" A-bomb scientists. By the winner of the 2003 PEN USA Award.

A brilliant work of contemporary urban archaeology from the leading activist zinester of San Francisco, author of SCAM and formerly known as Iggy Scam.

A trilogy of letters to Americans of all backgrounds

The fantastical satirical follow-up to the cult underground classic, The Taqwacores.

A young journalist's foray down the rabbit hole of media-led reporting, a tale of disillusionment and self-examination set in the world's most headline-grabbing regions

Portraits of Israelis and Palestinians strips away the historical, religious and political complications surrounding the situation in the Middle East. It takes no sides, simply depicting the faces, clothes, and postures of the inhabitants of this contested land.

A fascinating and funny exploration of the vast universe of Christian pop culture, leavened with empathy and braced with skepticism.

A long-needed and wished for resource, Reproduce and Revolt is a collection of original anti-copyright graphics to be freely used for various political posters, flyers, and campaigns.

"One of the funniest men in Manhattan... Over and above everything else, Sparrow offers something to believe in."

In 1988, at the age of twenty, Soha Béchara attempted to assassinate General Lahad, chief of militia in charge of Israeli-occupied Southern Lebanon. Immediately apprehended, interrogated, and tortured for weeks, she spent ten years in prison, without trial. After an intense Lebanese, European, and even Israeli campaign in her favor, she was released in 1998. This is her story.

One journalist’s travels through the landscape of Mormon fundamentalism, where behind every good man there are several good women.

A comprehensive and up-to-date exposé of the shadowy global network of private mercenary military firms.

A witty, vivid account that bucks the trend, exploring the ties that bind these two cultures rather than the forces that cleave them

An investigation and critique of the LEFT BEHIND series of best-selling novels as well as a critique of the political empire of Christian right evangelist-activist Tim LaHaye, and the surrounding culture. Click to download a sample chapter!

Read "We Won't Grow Up" from the San Francisco Chronicle, plus a recent interview with author Brian Gage in Splendid!

Acclaimed writer and political activist Kevin Powell publishes his 7th book, a bold and passionate collection of three new essays on freedom, democracy, and justice in America, as inspired by the tragedies of Hurricane Katrina and September 11th, and the 2004 presidential election.

A new essay collection by America's leading white anti-racist activist Tim Wise.

"Rather than get bogged down in sensational proclamations, apolitical assumptions or uninformed hip-hop activist conjecture, Yvonne Bynoe meaningfully advances the discussion of the hip-hop generation and its politics. Stand and Deliver carefully hones in on arguably the most important space for American youth today: the proving ground where hip-hop, politics, and social change meet."

The most comprehensive book dedicated to the street art of the stencil, containing an exhaustive collection of close to 1000 photographs from around the globe.

In this installment of Soft Skull's Deep Focus series: a meditation on The Sting, the nature of confidence games, and on the pleasure and necessity of being fooled.

The Hunter S. Thompson of Islamic literature

A gripping face-to-face encounter with Sri Lankan terrorists that sheds light upon the origins of the most frightening form of twenty-first-century warfare.

A revised and expanded edition of the book that defines the new anti-assimilationist queer movement.

As part of Soft Skull's Deep Focus series, film criticism takes a novel turn in this dynamic new series.

Through the looking glass of recent history with one of the country’s most popular political cartoonists.

Farai Chideya poses a question that's central to this country, and, given our world dominance, to almost every other country: Why is the U.S. the least participatory democracy in history? Run, do not walk, to buy this book - then act on it before November 2nd.

The hilarious and poignant story of a young man who set out to save a company and a way of life...and got mugged by the realities of global capitalism.


Now available for pre-order on Amazon.com!

A progressive account in comics format of how bad mortgages turned into a global financial meltdown—and a compelling manifesto for change.

I like Ted Rall because he tells it like it is. That is a trait I have long admired in James Carville—President Bill Clinton’s brilliant political strategist. The same goes for Bill Moyers, Molly Ivins, Bill Grieder, Ellen Goodman, Lewis Lapham, Victor Navasky, Jim Hightower, Julian Bond, Robert Kuttner, and the magnificent Paul Krugman of The New York Times.
Where would we be without these precious few golden voices that serve to keep us in touch with reality and common sense? Tomorrow I am sure I will recall others that should be on this honor roll of journalistic saints.

A self-described slob and data-entry drone from Fresno, CA, Brecher is P.J. O'Rourke on Red Bull, writing with passion and profanity on the nature of warfare and the ongoing wars – those on the front page and otherwise – that are being fought every day around the world.

A vivid, raw and ribald book, Watching the Door is an account of coming of age in 1970s Belfast that offers a unique look into the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland, never once losing its passion, wit and irony even in the face of the most horrific circumstances.

A remarkable and poignant portrait of Iran through the eyes of its bloggers. Download a sample chapter here!!

Famous writers, humorists, musicians and cartoonists comment on America by channeling their observations through the lens of seminal comic Bill Hicks.

An expose by one who knows the industry so intimately he was one of its most successful executives, and an account of the guerrilla warfare one person fought when a multinational corporation sought to destroy him.

"Tim Wise is one of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation. His considerable rhetorical skills, his fluid literary gifts and his relentless search for the truth make him a critical ally in the fight against racism and a true soldier in the war for social justice. His writing and thinking constitute a bulwark of common sense, and uncommon wisdom, on the subject of race, politics and culture. He is a national treasure."

Cutting-edge filmmaker Alex Cox tells us how it was and how it will be: a manifesto on the future of film, and guidance for the directors of tomorrow.

Sparrow's back from the campaign trail with another inimitable collection of short-short-fiction, poetry and hints around the house… Bush, Trotsky, God and capitalism are all given the once-over.

In an era of crisis, we need a voice of reason—someone to stand up and tell us who to cast the first stone at.