Truthout
Book Review
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Institutionalization as “Alternative Lifestyle”: Susan Nussbaum’s “Good Kings Bad Kings“
Susan Nussbaum's first novel, ‘Good Kings Bad Kings,’ portrays abuse endemic to contemporary nursing homes for children and youth with disabilities.
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Being Queer, Whether Lesbian or Transgender: a Non-Issue for God
Eleanor J. Bader reviews Rizi Xavier Timane's searing memoir, An Unspoken Compromise: A Spiritual Guide for LGBT People of Faith.
John Nichols and Robert McChesney: Progressives Ask for Too Little, Not Too Much in Age of Plutocratic Rule
Truthout speaks with John Nichols and Robert McChesney about their new book, “Dollarocracy.”
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“Cracked Open” Exposes Heartbreak of Many Counting on Fertility Methods
Eleanor Bader reviews Miriam Zoll's personal account of the failed promise of in-vitro fertilization.
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Dystopian Novel, The Water Thief, Imagines the Corporate-Controlled Future of America
Nicholas Soutter's novel may take place in the future, but it's clearly a future today's society created, with corporations ruling all and citizens spied on all day, every day.
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TJ English and the Political Economy of Crime
In ‘Whitey's Payback and Other True Stories: Gangsterism, Murder, Corruption, and Revenge’ TJ English reports on a 'vast ecosystem, a parallel universe to the social and economic system we …
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Outsourcing, Union Busting, Murder: Who Could Ask for More in a Novel?
Eleanor J. Bader reviews ‘A Bitter Pill: A Lenny Moss Mystery’ by Timothy Sheard.
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How Two Plant Geeks Grew a Permaculture Oasis in an Ordinary Backyard
In ‘Paradise Lot,’ two residents of an inner city write about how they transformed less than an acre of their blighted yard into a thriving food forest full of …
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Puerto Rican Independentista Oscar López Rivera’s 32 Years of Resistance to Torture
A new book examines the broader political significance of Puerto Rican activist Oscar Lopez Rivera's case, while providing an unflinching look at how imprisonment and draconian policies like solitary …
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Our Common Wealth: The Hidden Economy That Makes Everything Else Work
Russ Baker reviews Jonathan Rowe's posthumous book, ‘Our Common Wealth: The Hidden Economy That Makes Everything Else Work’.