reading guides

by friends of nox library

Nox Library produced reading guides for literature that focuses on labor, class, race, politics, and art. We no longer produce these guides but existing ones remain available for use.

Learning and applying these texts requires active, critical engagement with the author’s claims and ideas. Reading guides help the reader to navigate the often dense material through comprehension of the main points and organization of the text.

In relating the education back to the current moment, we believe reading is a critical part of liberation and developing community solidarity.

Great study leads to action.

PAST READING GUIDES

Borderlands / La Frontera byGloria Anzaldúa

Reading Guide


Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi

Guide to themes and significance


Fascism: What it is and how to Fight it by Leon Trotsky

A guide to terms


The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Summary of the book


Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

Study Group Reading Guide (Google Doc)

 

State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin

Overview and definitions

 

The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study by Stefano Harney & Fred Moten

Study Group Reading Guide (Google Doc)

 

Wage Labor and Capital by Karl Marx

Study Group Reading Guide