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An expansive investigation into the relationship between contemporary states and the far-rightIt is clear that the right is on the rise, but after ...

New edition of a trail-blazing history of imperial warfareEuropean Empires from Conquest to Collapse is a vivid anticolonial reckoning with the his...

One of the world’s leading theorists of nationalism offers a new synthesisIn the history of modern political thought, no topics have attracted as m...

One of the world’s leading theorists of nationalism offers a new synthesisIn the history of modern political thought, no topics have attracted as m...

A comprehensive, critical assessment of the EU after BrexitThe European Union is a political order of peculiar stamp and continental scope, its pol...

National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistBest Book of Fall (Esquire) and a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 (Lit Hub)What Has Happened to Fiction in...

The poets’ Great War: violence, revolution and modernismThe First World War changed the map of Europe forever. Empires collapsed, new countries wer...

An insider’s account of the videogame industry telling how gaming can become a force for goodEverything To Play For asks if videogames can achieve ...

The contributors bring to bear an unrivaled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, analyzing movies such as Rear Window a...

A radical new history of a dangerous ideaPost-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamit...

A radical new history of a dangerous ideaPost-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamit...

Colombia is the least understood of Latin American countries. Its human tragedy, which features terrifying levels of kidnapping, homicide and extor...

A fascinating guide to Franco Moretti’s literary criticismExperimental Criticism offers a series of close critical engagements with Franco Moretti,...

It is assumed that every inch of the world has been explored and charted; that there is nowhere new to go. But perhaps it is the everyday places ar...

A collection of essays on the nuclear revolution and the end of the Cold War by E. P. Thompson, Mike Davis, Raymond Williams, Rudolf Bahro, Lucio M...

Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-tr...

A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisisHow will climate change affect o...

A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisisHow will climate change affect o...

Hu Feng, the ‘counterrevolutionary’ leader of a banned literary school, spent twenty-five years in the Chinese Communist Party’s prison system. But...

The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the work of the great modernists—Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats—who were his sometime f...

Updated since the May 1997 election, Faces of Labour gives a unique insight into a range of Labour politicians in a series of entertaining and reve...

Over the past few decades, Tom Nairn has become one of the most respected and provocative writers on questions of nationalism, British politics and...

The Fall of the Tory PartyDespite winning the December 2019 General Election, the Conservative parliamentary party is a moribund organisation. It n...