BECKETT, HOWE, INHERITANCE, MOURNING Where literary criticism meets memoir, Beckett’s Children explores how absence, lineage, and loss echo across art and life. BECKETT'S CHILDREN: A LITERARY MEMOIR is now available for pre-order: orbooks.com/catalog/beck...

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Obsolete: The AI Industry’s Trillion Dollar Race to Replace You—and How to Stop It Co-published with The Nation, Garrison Lovely's debut is offers a new way to think about AI technology and a plan for deciding its future democratically. Pre-order here: orbooks.com/catalog/obso...

❗Excited to announce my new book "Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, & the FIFA Greed Machine," with an introduction by @edgeofsports.bsky.social. Hope you'll consider pre-ordering (with 15% discount) via @orbooks.bsky.social: orbooks.com/catalog/red-...

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Behrooz Ghamari on @breakingpoints.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qt_... Get your copy of his newest book below

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Nearly 3 years ago, I pitched an essay on AI to Jacobin, which became a cover story, which became a book about the biggest project in history: Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace You—and How to Stop It Preorders ship in May 🧵

Mouin Rabbani on BreakThrough News yesterday re: Donald Trump's tweet on Iran MOUIN RABBANI's GAZA APOCALYPSE is now available for pre-order: orbooks.com/catalog/gaza...

GAZA APOCALYPSE by MOUIN RABBANI. A leading analyst parses the Gaza genocide and its global ramifications. Pre-order here: orbooks.com/catalog/gaza...

OR author Mouin Rabbani's newest book GAZA APOCALYPSE is available to pre-order today. Watch him on @btnewsroom.bsky.social to understand Trump's threat that "a civilization will die tonight" and get a copy of his book below www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D7C...

From the editor of @newrepublic.com .... @mjtoma.bsky.social Killing Baby Hitler, available to pre-order now 🐣 orbooks.com/catalog/kill...

Behrooz Ghamari on what’s at stake in Iran right now. He speaks about the country’s vibrant civil society, its publishing scene, and what risks being destroyed through US and Israeli violence.

The Long War on Iran: Behrooz Ghamari in Conversation with Setareh Shohadaei and Omid Mehrgan at @cuny.edu @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social pcp.gc.cuny.edu/event/the-lo... Get your copy below

"a gripping account of Jewish involvement in the Palestine movement in Germany...reads like a slow-burn thriller" GERMANY'S JEWISH PROBLEM in @glasgowcounterfire.bsky.social @counterfireorg.bsky.social www.counterfire.org/article/germ... Get your copy below

SEARCH WORK is now shipping! Glimpse into the intimate, existential, and occasionally triumphal experiece that is looking for work. Available at the link in our bio. @smithmeade.bsky.social

We're at capacity but join the livestream tonight for the launch of SEARCH WORK www.youtube.com/live/CQEnHPh... And make sure to order your copy below!

DUCHAMP TAKES NEW YORK.... Come celebrate the launch of Duchamp Takes New York with author John Strausbaugh and Peter Christian-Aigner on the 15th of April at the Francis Kite Club www.eventbrite.com/e/duchamp-ta...

WE'RE GOING BIG TOMORROW..... @abbymartin0.bsky.social @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social @mattkennard.bsky.social

The Readymade Art Bomb Who Exploded NYC, author John Strausbaugh interviewed by @thecity.nyc about DUCHAMP TAKES NEW YORK thecity.nyc/2026/03/29/m... Get your copy below

Behrooz Ghamari connects Tehran to Gaza—unpacking how “human rights” rhetoric masks the same imperial playbook: destabilize, weaken, extract. Full video on YouTube.

How Texas Populists Almost Destroyed the Two-Party System by @davidgriscom.bsky.social in @jacobinmag.bsky.social excerpted from THE MYTH OF RED TEXAS co-published by @thenation.com jacobin.com/2026/03/texa... Get your copy below

For its inaugural episode, we welcomed author and scholar Behrooz Ghamari on ORdio, the OR Books podcast, to discuss his new book, The Long War on Iran. See the full episode on the OR Books Youtube, or at the link in our bio.

All about the search for work. SEARCH WORK: A Collective Inquiry into the Job Hunt edited by Rachel Meade Smith orbooks.com/catalog/sear...

"An opening salvo...The real cowboys should be pissed, and leftists across the country discount them at their own risk" THE MYTH OF RED TEXAS by @davidgriscom.bsky.social in @currentaffairs.bsky.social co-published by @thenation.com www.currentaffairs.org/news/unlearn... Order your copy below

"I'd like a job, sir." Find out how people search for one in SEARCH WORK: A Collective Inquiry into the Job Hunt, edited by Rachel Meade Smith orbooks.com/catalog/sear...

@davidgriscom.bsky.social and @cornelwest.bsky.social on The Myth of Red Texas... now shipping :-) orbooks.com/catalog/the-...

YOUR NEW BINGE READ...American Trickster reveals the true story of one of the twentieth century’s most mysterious figures, Carlos Castaneda. A stunning, genre-stretching biography by Ru Marshall, with books shipping in April. Pre-order here: orbooks.com/catalog/amer...

The first of its kind, Rosa Luxemburg's Herbarium combines colour photographs from the herbarium, her letters from prison, and her ecological critique of colonial capitalism. Available for pre-order now: orbooks.com/catalog/rosa...

Searching for work has evolved from sending resumes into a full metaphysical crisis... Come celebrate the launch of Search Work: A Collective Inquiry into the Job Hunt, edited by @smithmeade.bsky.social RSVP here: eventbrite.com/e/search-wor...

"For anyone wishing to dive deeper into the current conflict and how US-Iran relations reached their present impasse, this book is a compelling place to start" LONG WAR ON IRAN is @almonitor.bsky.social book of the week www.al-monitor.com/newsletter/2... Get your copy below

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Behrooz Ghamari author THE LONG WAR ON IRAN interviewed on Useful Idiots about Iran, Israel and the US with @aaronjmate.bsky.social and @kthalps.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=yJsa... Get your copy of the book below

More from the pages of Search Work, edited by Words of Mouth founder Rachel Meade Smith. Made up of personal essays, archival job ads, labor research, and even a playscript, Search Work is available for pre-order at 15% off: orbooks.com/catalog/sear...

Learn about Texas's once radical history with David Griscom author of THE MYTH OF RED TEXAS @davidgriscom.bsky.social orbooks.com/catalog/the-...

RED CARD: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine is now available for pre-order and will ship in May. By acclaimed sportswriter and scholar, Jules Boykoff. Introduction by edgeofsports.bsky.social KICKING OFF SOON, PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW: orbooks.com/catalog/red-...

The beautiful game. The horrible governing body. Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine by Jules Boykoff with an intro by Dave Zirin is available for PRE-ORDER at 15% off! Link in bio. @julesboykoff.bsky.social @edgeofsports.bsky.social

Duchamp Takes New York is now shipping! Publishing to coincide with a major MoMA Retrospective, this book revisits the artist who upended modern art, and the city that made it possible. Submit your most Duchamp-ian photos to be in with a chance to win a copy of the book! :-)

"I was a prisoner in Iran. I’ve seen the US meddle in the region for decades. Washington’s real aim in the Middle East is control, not liberation." Read Behrooz Ghamari author of THE LONG WAR IN IRAN in @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/i-was-a-pris...

An excerpt from THE LONG WAR ON IRAN by Behrooz Ghamari in @thewalrus.ca Get your copy of the book below thewalrus.ca/i-was-a-pris...

Behrooz Ghamari on Democracy Now!

Behrooz Ghamari on Democracy Now earlier this week

From Medea Benjamin’s Inside Iran (free e-book for 36 hours) to Behrooz Ghamari’s Remembering Akbar and The Long War on Iran—our books on Iran. orbooks.com/catalog/insi...

A new book on Iran gets beneath the headlines and into Iran's long history that has shaped the political landscape of today. The Long War on Iran by Behrooz Ghamari is available now through the link in our bio. @democracynow.org

Some more from the archives of Fred W.McDarragh, from his book with us, Pride: Photographs After Stonewall

Photos chronicling New York's queer community from Fred W. McDarrah, the first staff photographer and picture editor of the Village Voice, the only New York paper to cover the Stonewall Riots

Join us on Wednesday for a conversation on US–Iran relations with Behrooz Ghamari, author of The Long War on Iran. He’ll examine US intervention, sanctions, and why the US keeps misreading Iran’s transformations and role in the Middle East.

Search Work brings together over 30 contributors, drawing a diverse yet intimate portrait of what it is to search for work––these five excerpts offer a glimpse into the collection. Pre-order yours now for 15% off at the link in bio.

BOWIE by Simon Critchley lovingly unearths profoundly deep cuts from every Bowie era in a short, sharp book worthy of its subject. Miraculously doubles up as an introduction to philosophy. orbooks.com/catalog/bowie/