Bookish Bits is where you’ll find all our posts about books; including both reviews and additional commentary essays.

Most of the posts originally come from my Book Blog at Can’t You Read. All entries are in reverse chronological order (newest up top.) In the case of book reviews, both the title of the piece and the title of the book we’re reviewing will be included.

Bookish Bits 2021

Evolving Together: Why You Should Read Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid by Chris Walker

Barbarism Starts at Home: A Review of Spencer Ackerman’s Reign of Terror

Terminal Point: A Review of Greg Grandin’s The End of the Myth

Bookish Bits 2020

Michael Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds (PDF and Commentary)

Leon Trotsky’s Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It (PDF and Commentary)

Rudolf Rocker’s Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice (PDF and Commentary)

Baby Steps: A Review of Chapo Trap House’s The Chapo Guide to Revolution

Bookish Bits 2019

Limits of Liberal Antifascism: David Neiwert’s Alt-America (Commentary)

They All Fall Down: Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes (Review and Essay)

Casualties of Cacophony: Edward Snowden’s Permanent Record (Essay)

Propaganda Coma: E. Snowden’s Permanent Record (Additional Commentary)

Mercenaries and Mendacity: Jeremy Scahill’s Blackwater (Review and Essay)

Inversion Perversion: Chris Hedge’s Wages of Rebellion (Essay)

Why Bernie Will Win: Thomas Frank’s Listen, Liberal (Review and Essay)

Racialized Reactionary Politics: Ibram Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning (Review and Essay)

How Bernie Wins: Matt Taibbi’s Insane Clown President (Review and Essay)

Intervention History: Greg Grandin’s Empire’s Workshop (Review and Essay)

Backyard Déjà Vu: Sy Hersh’s The Price of Power (Essay)

America as an Enterprise: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Loaded (Essay)

White Moderate Tolerance: Assata Shakur’s Assata (Review and Commentary)

Digital Imperialism: A Review of Yasha Levine’s Surveillance Valley

Bookish Bits 2018

Rand and Greenspan: Matt Taibbi’s Griftopia (Commentary)

Knowing vs Living: Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow (Review and Commentary)

Supplemental Material

The Library: Categorized Book Listings, Reviews, and Sundry

The First Five: Recommended Reading For New Leftists

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” – James Baldwin

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