SEVEN STORIES PRESS

(P/b) Sad Tiger

(P/B) Z
A progressive parliamentary deputy is scheduled to appear at a political rally. Meanwhile, local political bosses plot his assassination. Thugs are recruited to disrupt the rally. Rumors begin to spread. But the forces already set in motion are irresistible. Z is the story of a crime, a time, a place, and people transformed by events. Z was published in Greece in 1966, and banned there one year later. It is based on an actual political assassination in 1963 in Salonika. The victim was Gregory Lambrakis, a socialist legislator and outspoken...
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(H/B) Mr. Distinctive
Mr. Distinctive has a memorable, attractive face. He only has to walk down the street, and everyone turns to smile at him. Once he starred in a TV commercial and was praised and congratulated for having a face that sold the product well. Mr. Distinctive is very pleased with himself and loves to take selfies with his cellphone. He posts countless images of himself that are shared all over the internet. One day Mr. Distinctive looks in the mirror and sees that his features have begun to fade, his face has changed into a blur. With every new ...
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(P/B) REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM
"During the Great Depression, which I'm old enough to remember, it was bad - much worse subjectively than today. But there was a sense that we'll get out of this somehow, an expectation that things were going to get better..." --from 'Requiem for the American Dream' In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America tod...
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(P/B) BLOODCHILD
A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes "Bloodchild," winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and "Speech Sounds," winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in print for the first time, "Amnesty" is a story of a woman aptly named Noah who works to negotiate the tense and co-dependent relationship between humans and a species of invaders. Also new to this collection is "The Book of Martha" which asks: What would you do if God granted you the ability - and responsibility...
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(H/B) The Lost Soul
A beautifully illustrated meditation on the fullness of life for readers of all ages by by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Olga Tokarczuk. The Lost Soul is a deeply moving reflection on our capacity to live in peace with ourselves, to remain patient, attentive to the world. It is a story that beautifully weaves together the voice of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and the finely detailed pen-and-ink drawings of illustrator Joanna Concejo, who together create a parallel narrative universe full of secrets, evocative of an...
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(P/B) MOMENTS POLITIQUES
Moments Politiques finds Jacques Ranciere, the legendary French philosopher, addressing these questions in essays and interviews drawn from thirty years of passionate public discourse. Reflecting on events from the Paris uprisings of May 1968 to the near present, and on his contemporaries including Michel Foucault, Guy Debord, and Roland Barthes, Ranciere interrogates our understanding of equality, democracy, and the shifting definition of communism today. In these short, provocative pieces, we are asked to imagine a society where the "an...
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(P/B) THE BODY WHERE I WAS BORN
The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood. Born with an abnormality in her eye and a family intent on fixing it, she occupies a world without the time and space for innocence. The narrator intimately recalls her younger self - a fierce and discerning girl open to life's pleasures and keen to its ruthless cycle of tragedy. With raw language and a brilliant sense of humor, both del...
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(P/B) Global Justice
Three speeches on corporate globalism and imperialism by one of the most widely known guerilla fighters, political theorists, and organisers, Che Guevara. In this collection of three speeches, Ernesto Che Guevara offers a revolutionary view of a world in which human solidarity and understanding replace imperialist aggression and exploitation. First, in a sharp speech given in Algeria on February 24, 1965 at the Afro-Asia Economic Seminar, Che speaks about the nature of capitalism and the revolutionary struggle that would open the way for a...
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(P/B) Manifesto
For a new generation of activists, these are classic revolutionary writings by four famous rebels, including The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg; and Che Guevara's Socialism and Man in Cuba. Includes an introduction by Cuban Marxist intellectual Armando Hart and a preface by US radical poet Adrienne Rich. The essays in this book, Manifesto, were written by three relatively young people - Karl Marx when he was 30, Rosa Luxemburg at 27, Che Guevara at the age of 37. Born into diff...
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(H/B) THE SIEGE AND FALL OF TROY
A book for middle-grade readers and older that makes the Trojan War vivid and accessible. The ancient city of Troy really existed. The Trojan War that figures in Homer's two great epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, really happened. But there is much more to it. Leave it to one of the English language's greatest practitioners, Robert Graves, to flesh out the story in a very short book for children, first published in 1962, and out of print for more than three decades. According to Graves, "English literature, to be properly understood...
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(P/B) THE MENTAL LOAD
In her first book of comic strips, Emma reflects on social and feminist issues by means of simple line drawings, dissecting the mental load, i.e. all that invisible and unpaid organizing, list-making and planning women do to manage their lives, and the lives of their family members. Most of us carry some form of mental load - about our work, household responsibilities, financial obligations and personal life; but what makes up that burden and how it's distributed within households and understood in offices is not always equal or fair. In h...
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(P/B) LIKE SHAKING HANDS WITH GOD
Like Shaking Hands with God details a collaborative journey on the art of writing undertaken by two distinguished writers separated by age, race, upbringing, and education, but sharing common goals and aspirations. Rarely have two writers spoken so candidly about the intersection where the lives they live meet the art they practice. That these two writers happen to be Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer makes this a historic and joyous occasion. The setting was a bookstore in New York City, the date Thursday, October 1, 1998. Before a crowd of ...
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(P/B) ANTI-CAPITALISM
Any young person who enters the world of progressive politics has had this experience. You meet an arch-conservative and you decide to convince him to join your side. You argue passionately against the powers that be, bringing up labor abuses, unnecessary wars, political corruption, simple commonsense injustice at every level of society. Your conservative interlocutor agrees with you: these are all problems. But, he asserts: exactly what do you intend to replace capitalism with? Capitalism is, after all, the best system we have. In Anti-ca...
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(P/B) RISE OF THE VIDEOGAME ZINESTERS
As Scott McCloud did for graphic fiction in Understanding Comics, pixel-provacateur Anthropy in Rise of the Videogame Zinesters launches the first intergalactic offensive against the corporate systems of production, condescending media coverage, and pervasive "gamer" culture of privilege and misogyny that has so far obscured the potential of what could be the defining cultural medium of a new millennium: games. Rise of the Videogame Zinesters shows us why digital games have the potential to impact our culture in new, surprising, and vital ...
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(P/B) THE INSTICT FOR COOPERATION
An astonishing graphic novel that brings Chomsky's political analysis to bear on real people's stories on the frontlines of America's struggle for economic justice and human dignity. The Instinct for Cooperation innovatively balances those real-life stories of struggle with conversations the author has had with Chomsky on how best to understand them. Although the themes are wide-ranging, this book is ultimately about the importance and need for spaces of resistance in countering state and other institutional forms of violence. For example,...
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(P/B) HOW TRUMP STOLE 2020
Follow investigative reporter for Rolling Stone, The Guardian and Democracy Now! Greg Palast as he hunts for the vanished voters of Trump's America. Yes, the election's stolen but Palast shows you how to steal it back! Palast lets you in on the nasty secrets of Trump-merica's democracy: One in five mail-in ballots are never counted. The chance of your vote being thrown in the garbage is 900% higher if you're Black than if you're white. 16.7 million voters were purged from the rolls in the past two years. Guess their color. In How Trump Sto...
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(P/B) THEY HANGED MY SAINTLY BILLY
A real historical figure, the British surgeon Dr. William Palmer was accused in 1856 of murdering 14 people by means of poison. The Dr. Kevorkian trial of the 19th century, with a bit of O.J. Simpson mixed in for good measure, the scandal entranced nearly the entire population of the British Isles. Everyone had an opinion on the case - including esteemed poet and historical fabulist Robert Graves. They Hanged My Saintly Billy is true crime as only a true literary master could write it, as Graves recounts the story with a fictional bent. (F...
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(P/B) THE CRY FOR JUSTICE
This bold anthology of social protest, art, and literature spans five thousand years and twenty-five languages and is the preeminent collection of progressive thought, literature, and art. This massive, stirring, and insightful collection includes literature of social protest, progressive and socialist philosophy, excerpts from novels, poems, speeches, muckraking journalism, and art all in the service of voicing the struggle against social injustice. In 1915, shortly after the runaway success of his famous muckraking novel about the Chica...
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(H/B) COMPLETE STORIES
Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth century's foremost imaginative geniuses. More thanhalf of Vonnegut's output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it all together. Organized thematically - "War", "Women", "Science", "Romance", "Work Ethic versus Fame and Fortune", "Behavior,"The Band Director" (those stories featuring Lincoln Highs band director and nice guy George Helmholtz), and "Futuristic" - these ninety-eight stories were written from 1941 to 2007, a...
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