Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, May 2004.
Book information: publisher, Amazon.com.
These interviews provide concise introductions to the ideas and books of the people interviewed. The interviews were published in The Progressive between April 1997 and October 2003, and are organized in the book in reverse chronological order (which is preserved in the list below).
An archive of recent interviews in The Progressive is here.
David Barsamian, Wikipedia.
The interviewees and some of their books
(Note: I have not read most of these books; inclusion of books below is based upon mention in Barsamian's book or what seems interesting to me.):
- Edwidge Danticat
(The Farming of Bones, 1998; Krik? Krak!, 1995; After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti, 2002)
Read the interview here. - Kurt Vonnegut
(Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969; Cat's Cradle, 1963; Breakfast of Champions, 1973)
Read the interview here. - Ahmed Rashid
(Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, 2000; Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia, 2002)
Read the interview here. - Danny Glover
Read the interview here. - John Pilger
(Heroes, 1986, 2001; A Secret Country: The Hidden Australia, 1989; The New Rulers of the World, 2002; Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire, 2006) - Tariq Ali
(The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity, 2002; Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq, 2003; Conversations with Edward Said, 2005; Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali, 2005; Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope, 2006)
Read the interview here. - Edward Said
(Orientalism, 1978; Culture and Imperialism, 1993; Culture and Resistance: Conversations With Edward W. Said, 2003)
One of the two interviews with Said in the book is here. - Amartya Sen
(Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation; Development as Freedom) - Arundhati Roy
(The Cost of Living; The God of Small Things; Power Politics; War Talk; The Algebra of Infinite Justice, this collection probably contains some/many? of the essays in the books listed previously; The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy) - Angela Davis
(Women, Race, & Class; Women, Culture & Politics; Are Prisons Obsolete?; Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture) - Haunani-Kay Trask
(From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii; Light in the Crevice Never Seen; Center for Hawaiian Studies) - Juan Gonzalez
(Roll Down Your Window: Stories of a Forgotten America; Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America) - Ralph Nader
(The Ralph Nader Reader) - Noam Chomsky
(American Power and the New Mandarins (his first political book); The Political Economy of Human Rights and Edward Herman, coauthor; Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media and Edward Herman, coauthor; Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies) - Eduardo Galeano
(Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent ; Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World; Memory of Fire trilogy) - Taylor Branch
(Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63; Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65; At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68) - Eqbal Ahmad
(The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad; Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire; Terrorism: Theirs and Ours) - Vandana Shiva
(Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development; Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology; Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, And Peace; Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply; Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit) - Howard Zinn
(People's History of the United States: 1492 - Present; You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times; A Power Governments Cannot Suppress) - Ben Bagdikian
(The New Media Monopoly; Double Vision: Reflections on My Heritage, Life, and Profession)