Recs if you like The War of Art: A History of Artists' Protest in America...
NPR’s Books We Love 2025
Books We Love from NPR began in 2013, always boasting over 200 books (almost 400 in recent years) featuring genres from memoirs, to cookbooks, to graphic novels, to children’s literature, to nonfiction, to novels. Check out NPR’s website to filter this massive list.
The list is in reverse alphabetical order directly from NPR.
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Art is Political!
Creative expression x political themes
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pop culture non-fiction
... or pop culture leaning.
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Radical Craft History
Nonfiction on critical theory + political history of art & craft.
SISTER LISTS: When Artists Go to Work | You Should Start a Zine | Opting Out of Fast Fashion
(In progress)
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When Artists Go to Work
"...I recalled the artists who had done their work in gulags, prison cells, hospital beds; who did their work while hounded, exiled, reviled, pilloried. And those who were executed... this is precisely the time when artists go to work." —Toni Morrison
DIY-focused nonfiction about craftivism, protest art, and creative resistance in dark times.
SISTER LISTS: You Should Start a Zine | Radical Craft History | Opting Out of Fast Fashion
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