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Millions of young people—and increasingly some not-so-young people—now work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand magazine offices...

"For all the informational convenience the internet offers, it is deeply flawed. How can it be improved? Writer Ben Tarnoff proposes one possibilit...

This lively new collection from one of America’s leading sociologists covers a wide range of theoretical problems of interest to radical social sci...

An essential collection of literary criticism from Francis Mulhern, author of The Moment of ‘Scrutiny’ and Culture/MetacultureInto the Melée collec...

Philosophy is traditionally understood as the search for universal truths, and philosophers are supposed to transmit those truths beyond the limits...

A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from workNeoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more in...

This major new manifesto offers a “clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society” and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the...

The giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and moreA n...

Are women’s orgasms more intense than men’s? What did André Breton think of homosexuality? Can love be separated from physical desire?In 1928 a gro...

First published in 1990, Michele Wallace’s Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism. Wallace’s consider...

A history of the cosmopolitan forces that made contemporary Iran “No ruling regime,” writes Hamid Dabashi, “could ever have a total claim over the ...

Since the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars—now the longest wars in American history—the US military has struggled to recruit troops. It has ...

The lessons of the Corbyn years for the future of left politicsIs Socialism Possible in Britain? analyses Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure as Labour leader a...

A critically acclaimed analysis of anti-Muslim racism from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, in a fully revised and expanded second edit...

Islam has become the new spectre haunting Europe. All too often, even well-meaning liberals portray the modern resurgence of Islam as the new “Gree...

A luminous sequel to the highly acclaimed first volume of Theatres of Memory, Island Stories is an engrossing journey of discovery into the multipl...

With characteristic rigor and readability, Avi Shlaim reflects on a range of key issues, transformations and personalities in the Israel–Palestine ...

In this scathing analysis of Israel-Palestine coverage in the US media, Howard Friel and Richard Falk reveal the persistent ways the New York Times...

In the spring of 2011, Wisconsinites took to the streets in what became the largest and liveliest labor demonstrations in modern American history. ...

An eminent molecular physicist and path-breaking crystallographer, an eloquent and prescient writer on the social implications of science, an early...

After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be que...

The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this century—and perhaps for the last forty years—and the s...

Recent years have seen a panic over “online red-light districts,” which supposedly seduce vulnerable young women into a life of degradation, and Ne...