"Life and Ideas" gathers excerpts from Malatesta's writings over a lifetime of revolutionary activity. The editor, Vernon Richards, has translated hundreds of articles by Malatesta, taken from the journals Malatesta either edited himself or contributed to, from the earliest, "L'En Dehors" of 1892, through to "Pensiero e Volonta," which was forced to close by Mussolini's fascists in 1926, and the bilingual "Il Risveglio/Le Reveil," which published most of his writings after that date. These articles have been pruned down to their essentials and collected under subheadings ranging from "Ends...