This article first appeared in FE #320, Spring 1985 under the pen-name George Bradford. It is reprinted on the 20th anniversary of the defeat of the U.S. empire in Vietnam.
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Haymarket Square Riot
by Bob Nirkind
Fifth Estate # 272, May 1976
This article is the fourth in a series of counter-Bicentennial pieces dealing with the more sordid and often less-acknowledged incidents in America’s 200year-old history.
The End of Communication?
by Jesse Cohn
Fifth Estate # 376, Halloween, 2007
As long as we’re on the subject of endings–or rather, the rhetoric of “the end”–I’d like to intervene in the ongoing conversation about what Roger Farr recently referred to in these pages as “the end of an era,” i.e., the …
Remembering Hanon Reznikov (1950-2008)
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
Because art breathes on in the legacy left with the living, death cannot defeat an artist. In this eternity of the permanent present, poems and plays and songs resist the tyranny of death. While this recognition hardly dulls the sting …
An Army of Jacks
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Fifth Estate # 378, Summer 2008
In fairy tales, humans can possess exterior souls, things magically containing or embodying individual life force–stone, egg, ring, bird or animal, etc. If the thing is destroyed, the human dies. But while the thing persists, the human enjoys a kind …
“The People’s Luck”
by Jim Feast
Fifth Estate # 380, Spring 2009
For the past two summers, I accompanied my wife, who speaks Cantonese and Mandarin, to China so we could tour part of the country before she started summer school in a master’s program in Chinese literature in Nanjing, a city …
A Ride on the Red Mare’s Back
by Don LaCoss
Fifth Estate # 382, Spring, 2010
a review of Ursula K. Le Guin, A Ride on the Red Mare’s Back. Illustrated by Julie Downing. New York: Orchard Books, 1992.
History of the Fifth Estate: The Early Years
by Peter Werbe
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
This article was originally written for our 30th anniversary edition which appeared in 1996. It has been updated and expanded for this issue.
The Vegetarian Myth
by Walker Lane (Peter Werbe)
Fifth Estate # 384, Spring, 2011
a review of The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability by Lierre Keith, 320 pp, PM Press, 2009, $20 Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World. Revised edition, expanded & updated by Bob Torres and Jenna Torres, 222 pp, …
Supporting the Scene in Association with Others: Do-It-Yourselfers and Difference
by Nicholas Jon Crane
Fifth Estate # 384, Spring, 2011
I attended a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) event three years ago that was promoted as a “zine release show.” Ostensibly devoted to the distribution of recently published zines, the event provided zine writers with an audience of people with shared dispositions, but …
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