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Common Notions Press
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Nonprofit, movement-based, and worker-run publisher of books that provide timely reflections, clear critiques, and inspiring strategies that amplify movements for social justice.

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Book cover for Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry by The Capacitor Collective (Common Notions): Nonfiction. A theory-driven account of the stakes and knowledge-building practices of the resurgent labor movement from organizers across the gig economy and tech industry. https://www.commonnotions.org/notes-toward-a-digital-workers-inquiry Book cover for People with No Charisma by Jente Posthuma, trans. by Sarah Timmer Harvey (Scribe Publications): From the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of What I'd Rather Not Think About comes a darkly humorous novel about multigenerational family dynamics and individuality in Dutch suburbia. https://scribepublications.com/books/people-with-no-charisma Book cover for Habitat by Case Q. Kerns (Black Lawrence Press): https://ecolitbooks.com/2025/09/02/habitat-by-case-q-kerns/ Reviewed by Joeann Hart ("In this delectably creepy novel-in-stories, set slightly in the future, late-stage capitalism plays itself out in the worst possible ways. Education requires a corporate sponsorship (read: indenture), and those who aren’t sponsored have only their bodies to sell, for sex or parts.") for 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/). https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/habitat/ Book cover for The Barefoot Followers of Sweet Potato Grace by Megan Okonsky (Lanternfish Press): Fiction featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "This is gay Bridget Jones meets Chocolat…in Texas. Add a dash of dead-cat-grief and some communal post-pandemic scarring to the mix, and you’ve got a funny, voicey, vulnerable romp that manages to stay light and bubbly, championing queer joy even as it confronts some all too familiar societal conflicts." https://lanternfishpress.com/shop/barefoot-followers-of-sweet-potato-grace
February 1, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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Book cover for Coop: A Novelette by Nida Sajid (Hajar Press): Fiction. Lena is a part-time bookseller in a bougie design studio in Oxford Circus. In between minimum-wage work under a politically hostile boss and strained communications with her parents, her days are shaped by a fraught relationship with food, ambiguous experiments in creative writing, and mounting pressure to find a ‘proper’ postgraduate job. https://www.hajarpress.com/books/coop Book cover for The Weather Report by Andrew Ross (Common Notions): Nonfiction. From acclaimed public scholar Andrew Ross, groundbreaking reporting on climate change and the horizons of a just future from Palestine, UAE, Arizona, and China. https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/the-weather-report Book cover for Absence by Issa Quincy (Two Dollar Radio): Fiction reviewed (https://necessaryfiction.com/reviews/absence/) by D.W. White ("Much of the book centers on the ways in which the slippery workings of memory might be wrestled down into the linguistic real. It is, probably, impossible—but that shouldn’t stop us.") for 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/). https://twodollarradio.com/products/absence Book cover for Forget the Camel: The Madcap World of Animal Festivals and What They Say about Being Human by Elizabeth MeLampy (Apollo Publishers): Creative nonfiction featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "'Have humans no shame?' asks lawyer and animal advocate MeLampy… In lucid and haunted prose, she sharply questions our animal narratives, making us feel what we’re too embarrassed to admit." https://apollopublishers.com/index.php/forget-the-camel/
February 1, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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January 28, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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Stay tuned for another year of good books for a free society!

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January 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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"A galvanizing and hopeful vision of a world in which liberation is within everyone’s reach."

@publisherswkly.bsky.social on LETTERS FROM A LIVING UTOPIA by @yaffasutopia.bsky.social
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY on Letters from a living utopia: reclaiming liberation from palestine to the world by Yaffa AS
January 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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"Shows workers taking full control of their messaging—spreading info and raising funds for strikes and documenting their own actions. . . .deserves to be heard as well as read."

@chicagoreader.com on STRIKE WHILE THE NEEDLE IS HOT by Josh MacPhee and Kennedy Block
Chicago reader on strike while the needle is hot: a discography of workers' revolt
January 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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"A a gift to a new generation of English-reading activists, students, and concerned people around the world. May we learn from the lessons Olivera and the other authors take from the Water War and its aftermath."

@nacla-report.bsky.social on ECHOES OF THE WATER WAR by Oscar Olivera
NACLA report on ECHOES OF THE WATER WAR: legacies of cochabamba bolivia by oscar olivera
January 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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"An original and important contribution to the emerging critical AI literature."

@criticalinquiry.bsky.social on WHY WE FEAR AI by @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer
critical inquiry on why we fear ai: on the interpretations of nightmares by hagen blix and ingeborg glimmer
January 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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"Offers a blueprint . . . to untangle and resist the cancer-industrial complex."

@springmagca.bsky.social on METASTASIS by @cannafis.bsky.social
spring magazine on metastasis: the rise of the cancer industrial complex and the horizons of care
January 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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"Dhoruba bin Wahad is legit. REVOLUTION IN THESE TIMES is a book about history and power. ...It’s about rejecting the identity of victim and learning to be a revolutionary."

@counterpunchmedia.bsky.social on REVOLUTION IN THESE TIMES edited by @kalonjichanga.bsky.social
counterpunch on revolution in these times: black power party veteran dhoruba bin-wahad on antifascism black liberation and cultures of resistance
January 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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"The influential Cuban OSPAAAL political movement may have shuttered in 2019 . . . but their legacy in graphic design can't be underestimated; they molded a language of anti-imperialism that continues to inspire and impress."

@hyperallergic.com ON ARMED BY DESIGN
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January 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM