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The celebrated philosopher explores the end of global capitalism at the hands of its key drivers—the ‘4 riders of the apocalypse’—in this analysis ...

There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Žižek has identified the four horsemen of th...

Why is criminal justice so central to American politics? Lockdown America notonly documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing,pri...

School violence has fallen steadily for twenty years. Yet in schools throughout the United States, Annette Fuentes finds metal detectors and drug t...

Bread and circuses—free food and mass entertainment—was the name contemporary social observers gave to the ancient Roman practice of keeping the co...

Erudite, witty and often controversial, The London Review of Books informs and entertains its readers with a fortnightly dose of the best and livel...

In this revised and expanded edition of Long Waves of Capitalist Development, Ernest Mandel seeks to explain the underlying determinants of the boo...

Exiled in 1948, Palestinians were robbed of their private property when looting became weaponizedDuring the 1948 War, Israeli fighters and resident...

The definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam Hochschild In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led Br...

A transgender woman reflects on her late transition and coming out, trans politics and culture, motherhood and memory, in this provocative epistola...

Why did the Arab Spring have such calamitous outcomes?Loved Egyptian Night fundamentally reassesses the Arab Spring, refuting the stories the Weste...

The first – and long-awaited – major biography of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da SilvaLula is among the greatest political figures in Braz...

Kathy Acker was one of the most original, subversive and influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and notoriously, as a consu...

Spontaneous,abrupt and wickedly humorous, Dan Perjovschi is fast becoming one ofthe world’s most influential cartoonists. He presents here a skepti...

Made Possible By... is an engrossing history of public broadcasting, from its initial idealist attempt to reshape the vast wasteland of television,...

‘An impure Joan of Arc’ or ‘a radiant Penthesilea’—Theroigne de Mericourt remains one of the most misrepresented figures of the French revolution. ...

Still the most comprehensive analysis of the subject to have appeared in English, Magical Reels charts the development of Latin American film indus...

Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams AwardIs the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River? Will California soon hold...

A trenchant analysis the thought of Sebastiano Timpanaro, one of the most original leftist thinkers of the 20th centurySebastiano Timpanaro (1923-2...

A sweeping new theory of world literature through a study of Palestinian and Israeli literature from the 1940s to the present. Makers of Worlds, Re...

A sweeping new theory of world literature through a study of Palestinian and Israeli literature from the 1940s to the presentMakers of Worlds, Read...

Making Capitalism without Capitalists offers a new theory of the transition to capitalism. By telling the story of how capitalism is being built wi...

Making Money examines the interrelation between problem gambling, drug addiction and shopaholism on the one hand and contemporary capitalism on the...