About This Issue – ARB #9 Winter/Spring 2025

Welcome to the ninth issue of the Anarchist Review of Books, produced by a collective based in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Baltimore, Berkeley, Chicago, Exarchia, New York, Oakland, and Richmond. As we go to press, Americans are learning the hard way what democracy looks like. The 47th U.S. President and First Lady have released cryptocurrencies named $TRUMPContinue reading “About This Issue – ARB #9 Winter/Spring 2025”

About This Issue – ARB #8 Summer/Fall 2024

Welcome to the eighth issue of the Anarchist Review of Books, produced by a collective based in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Exarchia, New York, Oakland, Richmond, and Seattle. As ARB editor Nick Mamatas likes to say, “if you don’t use your imagination someone else will do it for you.” Nowhere is this more salient than inContinue reading “About This Issue – ARB #8 Summer/Fall 2024”

About This Issue – ARB #7 Winter/Spring 2024

Welcome to the seventh issue of the Anarchist Review of Books, produced by a collective based in Atlanta, Chicago, Exarchia, New York, Berkeley, Richmond, and Seattle. We go to press as tens of thousands are being murdered in the Middle East in the name of nationalism and fundamentalism. The bombardment and eviction of Gaza, likeContinue reading “About This Issue – ARB #7 Winter/Spring 2024”

About This Issue – ARB #6 Summer/Fall 2023

Welcome to the sixth issue of the Anarchist Review of Books, produced by a collective based in Atlanta, Chicago, Exarchia, New York, Oakland, Richmond and Seattle.
This summer—of floods and fires, of capsized migrant boats, air quality alerts, and deadly temperatures across the globe—the words of Diane di Prima keep coming to mind. “I have,” di Prima wrote “just realized that the stakes are myself. I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life.”

About This Issue – ARB #5 Winter/Spring 2023

Welcome to the fifth issue of the Anarchist Review of Books, produced by a collective based in Atlanta, Chicago, Exarchia, New York, Oakland, Richmond and Seattle. The Situationist International believed that authentic human desire is inevitably in conflict with capitalist society, that increasing worker pay did not decrease worker exploitation. They believed in workers’ councils,Continue reading “About This Issue – ARB #5 Winter/Spring 2023”

About This Issue – ARB #4 Summer/Fall 2022

Welcome to the fourth issue of the Anarchist Review of Books produced by a collective based in Atlanta, Chicago, Exarchia, New York, Oakland, and Seattle. We bring you this issue as nine judges in a dictatorship of the rich, have decided that a document written two centuries ago with feather quills will determine what kindContinue reading “About This Issue – ARB #4 Summer/Fall 2022”