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A person wearing a t-shirt that reads "Hisssss at patriarchy" with a cartoon cat face holds a stack of books on disability including titles by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Alice Wong, Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire.
A short clip of Ashanti Alston speaking about the importance of movements supporting political prisoners.
A standing copy of the book Anarchist Panther: The Selected Writings of Ashanti O. Alston, featuring a grayscale photograph of the author with a green overlay, and the title in slanted light orange diagonal text.
A red and yellow bubble headline says "Hot E-Book Summer" against an orange background with a pattern of summer clip art. Below the headline, a sweating emoji has its tongue out, displaying a black book with the AK Press logo.
An event flyer for the release of Visions and Interventions at Powell's City of Books on Monday, July 13 at 7pm. The image shows the book cover and headshots of four speakers: Lara Messersmith-Glavin, Paul Messersmith-Glavin, Tamara Lynne, and Shane Burley.
A copy of the book Visions and Interventions: Thirty Years of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory stands up in front of another stack of Visions and Interventions books.
A collective member holds a stack of books. The photo is overlaid with cartoon images of a sun with sunglasses and a palm tree. Text at the top reads "Fuck the 4th Sale! 25% off Everything!
A black and white book cover titled "A WE WITHOUT A STATE". The central image is a sharpie and pencil drawing of a tower falling down, struck by flames or lightening. Underneath the handrawn image is the author's name, and below it in a smaller font, the translator's. It reads "Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil" and "translated by JD Pluecker."
Cartoonish aqua and white text reads "Fuck the 4th sale!" in the foreground, against a background of summery illustrations: sunglasses, suns, beach umbrellas, and popsicles, interspersed with black flags.
The book cover of Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, expanded second edition. The title is written in bright green letters and stands against a black background. There is a photo of a burning cop car dating back to the '50s or '60s, overlaid in with light purple, giving the appearance of purple flumes. The bottom right corner shares the names of the editors: Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, editors; Foreword by Cece McDonald
A copy of the book Civil Rights and Structural Attacks: Conversations with Walter Riley, featuring a line drawing of Walter Riley on the cover, sits against a background of bricks.
An AK Press table at a bookfair is covered with stacks of recent books, with t-shirts and other merch standing up behind them. Text in the top left corner reads "Is it YOU?"
Two books by Aric McBay, Inversion and Recursion, are displayed on top of two stacks of Recursion. These are the first two releases in the Germinal trilogy.
Six shirts in a variety of bright colors, all featuring the new AK Press logo.
A donation confirmation screen saying saying "Thanks for donating $3,190 USD to Support Committee" with the caption "Thanks to your orders, we raised over $3K to support Marius Mason!"
A close up photo of the book cover.
Self portrait by Marius Mason, from the Certain Days Calendar
A bright orange yellow flyer advertising "Prison as a Site of Political Transformation," a reading and conversation with Garrett Felber and Emile Suotonye DeWeaver. Both book covers are framed in the middle of the flyer. The bottom third of the flyer includes event details: Thursday, May 21 at 7pm, at Tamarack in Oakland. The bottom right corner is flanked by the Marcus Books and AK Press logo.
A bright yellow flyer with event details for Garrett Felber, who edited I Cannot Submit to Injustices: Collected Works of Martin Sostre. There is a faint orange outline drawing of Sostre on the right-hand side of the flyer, and a photo of the book cover on the left. 5/21—Oakland, CA. Tamarack, 7pm Book event with Emile Suotonye DeWeaver 5/27— Portland, OR. Free Society People's Library, 7pm I Cannot Submit event with Corey Devon Arthur 6/04—Toronto, ON. A Different Booklist, 7pm I Cannot Submit event with William C. Anderson and Robyn Maynard 6/05—Buffalo, NY. Sostre-Pointer Memorial Garden, 7pm I Cannot Submit event with Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin 6/06—Brooklyn, NY. Bedford Library, 5:30pm I Cannot Submit event with Mariame Kaba and Corey Devon Arthur  6/07—Baltimore, MD. Red Emma's, 2pm I Cannot Submit event with Paul Coates
A copy of Anarcho-Syndicalism, with a portrait of Rudolf Rocker against a red background on the cover, is placed on top of copies of four other Working Classics titles spread out.
The cover of "For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World" by Chris Dixon, Foreword by Rachel Herzing. The cover has a lilac background and shows a black and white illustration of a stream of protestors marching forward, carrying signs. The title text is in a bright pale yellow.
A copy of the book A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre by Garrett Felber. The cover features a black and white photo of Martin Sostre and a solid block of orange with the title and author in black, as well as endorsements from Mariame Kaba and Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
A close up photo of the book cover with a textured background
A black and white line drawing of Marius Mason surrounded by a pattern of leaves.
A copy of the book I Cannot Submit to Injustices and the zine Letters from Prison on top of a wood table. Text reads "Preorder this book... & get this zine free!"
An event poster for the DC Black Cat Bookfair, April 25th, 2026 from 2-8pm. The graphic shows a cat hiding behind an open book in front of a red star.
A man (who happens to be the author of the book) places a box on a folding chair, opens it, and pulls out a copy of Losing Interest.
Close up photo of the book cover in the foreground with 4 more copies in the background.
Digital flyer with a photo of Lara in the bottom left corner, layered atop the book cover with a magical golden rabbit figure flying through a space-like, magical atmosphere. The flyer includes events from April-May 2026. Thursday, April 23 | 7pm Wooden Shoe Books, Philadelphia, PA In conversation with Emma Wu Friday, April 24 | 7pm Red Emma's, Baltimore, MD In conversation with China Martens Saturday, April 25 | 7pm DC Black Cat Book Fair, Washington, DC Visionary Fiction Workshop for Radicals Sunday, April 26 | 4pm Bottom Feeder Books, Pittsburgh, PA In conversation with Cindy Crabb & M.C. Benner-Dixon Tuesday, May 5 | 5:30pm Astoria Public Library, Astoria, OR In conversation with Marianne Monson Saturday, May 16 | 4pm Village Books and Paper Dreams, Bellingham, WA In conversation with Caskey Russell Sunday, May 31 | 4pm The Bay Area Book Festival Post-Disaster Futures panel with Susanna Kwan, T.K. Rex, and Chuck Tingle, moderated by Lara Messersmith-Glavin
Author Scott W. Schwartz pitches his book, Losing Interest, a great read for anyone who hates capitalism and wants to understand why it is how it is.
A green flyer advertising author Clare Follmann's Scapegoat book events. A black and white author headshot is on the far left, next to a picture of the green cover of Scapegoat. Sunday, April 12 | 5pm Olympia, WA Last Word Books In conversation with with Jeanne Dodds Friday, April 17 | 2pm PT IG Live In conversation with Sarah Stein Lubrano at @sarahsteinlubrano Monday, May 4 | 7pm Seattle, WA Elliott Bay Book Company In conversation with Gedney Barclay Tuesday, May 26 | 6pm Portland, OR Broadway Books In conversation with Elizabeth Weinberg Saturday, June 6 | 7:30pm Seattle, WA Left Bank Books Saturday, June 13 | 2pm Olympia, WA Browsers Bookshop In conversation with Miranda Mellis Sunday, June 21st | 3pm ET Firestorm Co-op Virtual event In conversation with Patty Krawec
A close up photo of the book cover
A photo of a stack of books decorated with multicolored spring clip art: several flowers, a plant sprout, a butterfly, and a worm reading a book. Text reads "Spring Cleaning Sale."
A copy of the book RUINER by Lara Messersmith-Glavin sits on a bed of grass, clovers, and small yellow and purple flowers.
A landscape digital poster for the Ruiner launch event at Powell's Books in Portland with author Lara Messersmith-Glavin and Molly Gloss.
A black-and-white photograph of two men standing side by side: Boots Riley and his father Walter Riley.
The cover of the book Ruiner by Lara Messersmith-Glavin features a flying rabbit chimera and an atmospheric glow against a dark background. A black bookmark with gold print is placed on top of the book and shows a wayfinder serpent, a broken egg, and very small text that says "May you find home... wherever you are." Text at the bottom of the graphic says "PREORDER - Coming 3.31.26"
A close up photo of the book cover with a wood slat background.
Close up photo of the book cover
A conference booth set up with two tables full of AK Press books.
Many orders for Scapegoat are laid out side-by-side on the table for fulfillment.
Close up cover of the book cover on a colorful carpet
A green background with a black illustration of a flower and white text in the foreground: "Thought-provoking and utterly enthralling, Scapegoat is a deeply researched history of how we talk about invasive species, which is to say how we talk about science, our own role in the natural world, and the search for a better future..." —Erica Berry, author of Wolfish
A copy of Kristian Williams's new book Policing the Progressive City sits on top of four stacks of the same book.