The Uncomfortable Dead
A Novel by Four Hands
Paco Ignacio Taibo and Subcomandante Marcos

In alternating chapters, Zapatista Subcomandante
Marcos and Paco Ignacio Taibo II create an uproarious
murder mystery. The chapters written by Marcos
originate in the mountains of Chiapas Mexico, while
those penned by Taibo star his Coca - cola- and
-cigarette consuming series detective Hector
Belascoaran Shayne. The ugly history of the city's
political violence rears its head, and both detectives
find themselves in an unlikely dance of death with
forces at once criminal, historical, and political.

 

 

 

 

 

Chicken with Plums
Marjane Satrapi

We are in Tehran in 1958, and Nassar Ali Khan, on of
Iran's most revered tar players, discovers that his
beloved instrument is irreparably damaged. Though he
tries, he cannot find one to replace it. In despair,
he takes to his bed, renouncing the world and all its
pleasures. As the pieces of his story slowly fall
into place, we begin to understand the profundity of
his decision to give up life.

 

 

 

 

City of God
Paulo Lin

Cidade de Deus, is one of Rio's most notorious slums.
First published in Brazil (as Cidade de Deus) in 1997
and adapted for the screen (as City of God) in 2002,
this translation makes the book finally available to
English-reading audiences.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Still Water Saints
Alex Espinoza

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography
Andrew Helter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love is a Mix Tape
Rob Sheffield

What is love? Great minds have been grappling with
this question throughout the ages, and in the modern
era, they have come up with many different answers.
According to Western philospher Pat Benatar, love is a
battlefield. Her paisan Frank Sinatra would add the
corollary that love is a tender trap. Love hurts.
Love stinks. Love bits, love bleeds, love is the
drug. The troubadours of our times agree: They want
to know what love is, and they want you to show them.
But the answer is simple: Love is a mix tape.

In Love is a Mix Tape, Rob, uses the songs on 15 mix
tapes to tell the story of his brief time with Renee.
The songs on these tapes make up the soundtrack to
their lives.

 

 

 

 

 

¡Zapatistas!
John Ross

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
Alice Walker

In We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For, Alice
Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color
Purple, draws on her deep spiritual grounding, her
passionate political convictions, and her
extraordinary literary gifts to give us a series of
meditations on the universal struggles for wisdom,
justice, and peace.

We are the ones we have been waiting for, Walker says,
because we live in an age in which we are able to see
and understand our own predicament. With so much
greater awareness than our ancestors--and with such
capacity for insight, knowledge, and empathy--we are
uniquely prepared to create positive change within
ourselves and our world.

 

Lost City Radio
Daniel Alarcón

For ten years, Norma has been the voice of consolation
for a people broken by violence. She hosts Lost City
Radio, the most popular program in their nameless
South American country, gripped in the aftermath of
war. Every week, the indigenous in the mountains and
the poor from the barrios listen as she reads the
names of those who have gone missing, those whom the
furiously expanding city has swallowed. Loved ones
are reunited and the lost are found.

But the life Norma has become accustomed to is forever
changed when a young boy arrives from the jungle and
provides a clue to the fate of her long missing
husband.

Lost City radio probes the deepest questions of war and its meaning: from its
devasting impact on a society transformed by violence to the
emotional scarring each participant, observer and survivor carries
years after.

 

 

like son
felicia luna lemus

Set amidst the outsider worlds of present-day downtown
New York, 1990s Los Angeles, and 1940s Mexico City,
Like Son is the not-so-simple story of a
love-blindness shared between a father and a son. Born
a bouncing baby girl named Francisca Cruz, Frank Cruz
is now a post-punk thirty-year-old who has inherited
his dead father's wanderlust, unrequited love, and
hyperbolic tendencies.

Felicia Luna Lemus is the author of the novel Trace
Elements of Random Tea Parties (Farrar, Straus and
Giroux), and her writing has appeared in various
magazines and anthologies, including A Fictional
History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing
(Akashic Books). She currently teaches writing at The
New School and lives in the East Village of Manhattan.