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How have ideas about white women figured in the history of racism? Vron Ware argues that they have been central, and that feminism has, in many way...

A classic and controversial critique of sexism in the black nationalist movement, this “landmark black feminist text” is essential reading for thos...

Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the ...

"Hazel Carby is a foundational scholar of race, class, and empire as critical lenses for understanding culture." –Elizabeth Alexander, author of Th...

Combining the energy of the early seventies feminist movement with the perceptive analyses of the trained theorist, Woman’s Estate is one of the mo...

Leader of Latin America’s powerful new women’s movement rethinks the meaning of feminist politicsRecent years have seen massive feminist mobilizati...

How finance is a mechanism of social and political dominationThe 2007–08 credit crisis and the long recession that followed brutally exposed the ec...

An argument for bold action to halt climate destruction, adapted for young people from Andreas Malm’s best-selling bookYoung people are inheriting ...

How the military used sleep as a weapon—and how soldiers fought backOn April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mal...

A bold new vision of the modern English novelThe leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the fiction of the past century, ident...

Playwright, literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, the Brontës, Swift and Joyce, scourge of postmodernism, autobiographer — T...

One of the world’s most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital—and post-9/11—age. This witty and allusive...

On January 3, 1914, Pancho Villa became Hollywood’s first Mexican superstar. In signing an exclusive movie contract, Villa agreed to keep other fil...

This illuminating study of Benjamin’s final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopherRevolutionary critic of the philosophy of progr...

Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashesFire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historic...

Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashesFire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historic...

The leading philosopher of our time tracks the demise of liberalism through landmark events of the 21st century—from 9/11 to the farce of the finan...

“‘Hegemonic decline,’ to borrow a phrase from one of Trump’s ancestors, makes one want to release the safety catch on one’s Browning. A petrified d...

Italy’s political disaster under a microscopeThere is little that hasn’t gone wrong for Italy in the last three decades. Economic growth has flatli...

A history of why great powers decline, from Spain to the United StatesThe extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as...

“In the annals of popular protest in America, these have been shining hours, achieved entirely outside the conventional arena of orderly protest, w...

A leading radical intellectual tackles the many controversial interpretations of Wagner’s workFor over a century, Richard Wagner’s music has been t...