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What is Revolution Books?

At a moment when the planet and future of humanity are in peril...when so many are agonizing over where things are headed yet dreaming of something far better...Revolution Books is where you find the way out of the madness. Here the search for the truth meets the poetic spirit—with books, authors, films, and performance. Here you find the most radical revolution in the work and leadership of Bob Avakian who has developed the new communism aimed at the emancipation of humanity. A revolution to overthrow this system, and create a society and world in which human beings can truly flourish and the imagination can soar. Welcome to Revolution Books.

Events for Revolution Books stores in New York and Berkeley are listed here, including online events co-sponsored by both stores.

New York

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Store open for browsing and shopping: Tues-Thurs-Fri-Sat-Sun 12-6 pm.
Or shop online here.
437 Malcolm X Blvd (at 132nd St) (2/3 train to 135th St)
New York, NY 10037
212-691-3345 | revbooksnyc@yahoo.com
revolutionbooksnyc.org

Suggested donation for events at Revolution Books $5-10

*Most events at Revolution Books are presented by the Revolution Books Educational Fund,
a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization.

 

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Berkeley

Revolution Books Berkeley store window

2444 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
510-848-1196

revolutionbooksberkeley@gmail.com
www.revolutionbooks.org

Support the store by ordering your books on our website.
Hours are Tuesday-Friday 12:30-7pm, Saturday & Sunday 1:00-6pm. Or call 510/848-1196.

Join us for a night at the theater to see The Far Country at The Berkeley Rep
Friday, March 29th, 7pm

7pm: Asian American Pacific Islanders Heritage Night with performances by LionDanceME, Bay Area Independent Chinese Dancers, and more. Light bites will be provided by Dumpling Time in the Narsai David Courtyard. This event is free and open to the public.

8pm: Watch the play, The Far Country at Berkeley Rep's Peet's Theatre, 2025 Addison St. Berkeley

Berkeley Rep has invited Revolution Books to have a book table at this event.  Contact us for specially priced tickets: revolutionbooksberkeley@gmail.com or 510-848-1196.

Lloyd Suh’s breathtaking account of immigration, identity, and memory has been called “Artful…an act, loving and sorrowful, of reclamation” by The New York Times.


Following a critically acclaimed debut in New York, Pulitzer Prize finalist Lloyd Suh brings The Far Country back to its roots in a triumphant West Coast premiere.


In the wake of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Moon Gyet has arrived at San Francisco Bay’s Angel Island Immigration Station with an invented biography and a new name, both given to him by a man who made the same arduous crossing several years earlier.


But passage to San Francisco — and the dream of a better life for future generations — commands a very high price. The play spans two countries and three generations.

     from the Berkeley Rep description of the play

"The script crackles…Gorgeous." San Francisco Chronicle

"A beautiful tale that resonates with history…put The Far Country on your must-see list." BroadwayWorld

"Dazzling…A glorious historical epic!" SFist 

Read this article American Crime #67 - 1848-1900: Brutal Exploitation and Ruthless Oppression of Chinese Immigrants.

Anti-Chinese rioting in denver 1880
BRANDON SHIMODA poetry reading & discussion
Friday, April 5th, 7 p.m.

Brandon Shimoda is the author of eight books of poetry and prose, including: The Grave on the Wall, recipient of the PEN Open Book Award. His latest work is Hydra Medusa. He is an associate professor at Colorado College, and curator of the Hiroshima Library, a traveling reading room/collection of books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Hydra Medusa is a book of poetry and prose written while Shimoda was living in the US-Mexico borderlands. There are dreams, ghosts and many layers to his reflections as he links the past to the present, the Central Americans who today cross into the U.S. without permission and are rounded up and imprisoned in multiple facilities, with the many Japanese who were incarcerated in the many prisons in the same desert area during WWII. 

He writes: "Xenophobia is a handmaiden of citizenship, and an essential qualification of Americanism. Americanism is not a virtue but a malignancy. It elucidates a set of cognitive dissonances and defects which produce an animalistic anger that can only find resolution in the treatment of other people as animals."

Praise for Hydra Medusa

Unlike the hydra in Greek mythology, Hydra Medusa’s wounds refuse cauterization, instead serving as sites of transformative historical encounter. In the aftermath of Japanese incarceration during World War II, a topic that has consistently engaged Shimoda’s thinking and writing, looking into these wounds informs how we see the landscape of the past as it shimmers, mirage-like, in the here and now. --Los Angeles Review of Books

Order Hydra Medusa here.

Brandon Shimoda

Photo: Scott Tsuchitani