Join us for the next session in our year-long Literature of Resistance discussion group, gathering at Time and Space Limited on Sunday January 25, 2026 and led by Kim Barke.
Our upcoming read is Václav Havel’s incandescent essay, The Power of the Powerless (1978), a clear-eyed exploration of how systems sustain themselves through everyday performances of conformity, and how “living within truth” begins as a personal practice with civic consequences.
Havel’s famous “greengrocer” vignette opens a door onto questions that feel freshly wired to the present: what we signal to stay safe, what we repeat to belong, and what becomes possible when we refuse to participate in the script.
This book can be purchased via used book sellers, including: abebooks.com (click here), or thriftbooks.com (click here).
This essay is also available free online here:
You can access a complete list HERE on Bookshop.org of the other books that will be discussed in the coming year for this Book Series. Purchasing from the TSL Bookshop store helps to support TSL.
The full 2026 reading list spans everything from attention liberation to surveillance technology, with special selections for Poetry Month and Pride Month. We hope you’ll join us as we explore the texts that remind us how to stay awake, stay engaged, and stay human.
Tickets: Non-Members $10 / TSL Members, Free. Advance registration requested.
