A collection of columns, reviews, introductions, interviews, and previously uncollected stories revealing the method behind the madness and critical acumen of Charles Bukowski.

Cruel Futures
City Lights Spotlight Series No. 17

Carmen Giménez Smith

A Latina feminist State of the Union address at the intersection of pop culture and interiority.

The Stone Building and Other Places

Aslı Erdoğan

Vivid stories from one of Turkey's most admired contemporary female authors, whose political activism has made her the target of state persecution.

A Good Day for Seppuku
Short Stories

Kate Braverman

Haunting new stories about girls on the brink of adulthood, women on the verge of breakdowns, and families undone by past deceptions.

Loaded
A Disarming History of the Second Amendment

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

"If . . . anyone at all really wants to 'get to the root causes of gun violence in America,' they will need to start by coming to terms with even a fraction of what Loaded proposes."—Los Angeles Review of Books

The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian

E.F. Granell

Picaresque novel of the Spanish Civil War written by one of the most important post-WWII members of the Surrealist Movement.

Doc/Undoc
Documentado/Undocumented Ars Shamánica Performática

Felicia Rice

MacArthur Genius Guillermo Gómez-Peña and award-winning book artist Felicia Rice create a multi-media, border-crossing hybrid: the book as performance art.

I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us
An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa

John Gibler

Chosen as a Best Book of 2017 by Publishers Weekly!

Harrowing personal narratives describing how Mexican authorities disappeared, killed, and injured scores of students and others in a still-unsolved crime.

Invocation to Daughters
City Lights Spotlight Series No. 16

Barbara Jane Reyes

Volume 16 in the City Lights Spotlight Series: Feminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet.

venture of the infinite man

Pablo Neruda

Neruda's long-overlooked third book of poetry, critical in his poetic evolution, now translated into English for the very first time!

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