The Huffington Post, “Nine sci-fi and fantasy authors who will blow your mind”
This approach has helped her to craft unique and memorable worlds, and made her one of the first and most well-known fantasy authors to write settings that couldn’t be boiled down to “medieval Europe, but with magic.” Her work explores themes such as anarchism, taoism, race, gender and environmentalism. Continue Reading
The New York Times, “Heathcote Williams, Radical British Poet Who Helped Form Anarchist Nation, Dies at 75”
He became a leader of the squatter movement in the 1970s, directing homeless Londoners to available space through his agency Ruff Tuff Cream Puff. He also helped create the Free and Independent Republic of Frestonia, an anarchist country within a country, named after a nearby street, Freston Road. Located in the Notting Hill neighborhood, it issued […]
The Washington Post, “Heathcote Williams, British playwright and countercultural giant, dies at 75”
Heathcote Williams, a British playwright, poet, anarchist and magician who — in addition to founding a secessionist state with a group of London squatters — wrote one of the most acclaimed plays of the 1970s, along with best-selling poems about dolphins and whales, died July 1 at a hospital in Oxford, England. He was 75. […]
The Denver Post, “This poet is riding through Denver delivering dreams to doorsteps. Nightmares cost extra.”
In Richmond, Va., he lived in an anarchist collective called the Flying Brick. In Tucson, he lived in an old fire station above the Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art. A violent lightning storm nearly killed him in the desert outside Marfa, Texas. Continue Reading
Ithaca Times, “Local writer pens dense critique on modern man”
James Thomas Lukasavage, a local author and avowed pacifist anarchist, takes the reader through a deeply-sourced meditation on the world today, what has gone wrong and how it can be saved. It’s the type of book that, when described as it just was, sounds completely unappealing and aggressively disinteresting unless coming from someone with an […]
Jezebel, “Don’t Forget Your Mary Wollstonecraft While Reading Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility”
Even before her death, her illicit relationship with the anarchist philosopher William Godwin had put her firmly in the sights of conservative thinkers. If Sense and Sensibility is a work of the 1790s or very early nineteenth century, then it looks as if it were written as a deliberately and self-consciously feminist one. By 1811, […]
Vancouver Sun, “Canada 150: Prolific writer George Woodcock helped create Canada’s literary voice”
He also became a prolific writer. He wrote about anarchism; a biography of George Orwell that won a Governor-General’s prize; about First Nations art and culture; about Doukhobors; about eccentric provincial premier Amor de Cosmos; about B.C.’s social history. In all, he produced about 140 books. Continue Reading
The Stranger, “What Americans Can Learn from Badass Russian Dissident Reporter Victoria Lomasko”
Several years ago, Lomasko says, she and other writers were looking for a venue to launch an anarchist newspaper called Volya, which means “Will” in Russian. A bookstore owner offered up his store for the event. The very next day, the police showed up: “Do you want to have a bookstore or do you want […]