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Drugs are ubiquitous in the past and present of capitalist society. What can they tell us about our society and economy?Americans are in the midst ...

Once at the forefront of progressive social change in the US, Black activism has been eclipsed in the past quarter century by dramatic changes in t...

A riveting inquiry into black history and American racism published here for the first time, Race and Revolution is a work of radiant insight and b...

Forty years after the defeat of Nazism, and twenty years after the great wave of decolonization, how is it that racism remains a growing phenomenon...

Continuing Patrick Wolfe’s work on settler colonialism This edited collection celebrates Patrick Wolfe’s contribution to the study and critique of ...

A new edition of a celebrated contemporary work on race and racismPraised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecra...

A powerful critique of the racial myths that shape our worldDrawing on a rich tapestry of historical analysis, literary criticism, and cultural the...

What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the ...

ALEXANDER HAMILTON AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE: This bold, revisionist biography of the polarizing Founding Father reframes the founding of the...

A passionate call to rediscover the political and emotional joy that emerges when we share our livesIn an era of increasing individualism, we have ...

A passionate call to rediscover the political and emotional joy that emerges when we share our livesIn an era of increasing individualism, we have ...

A “tremendously intelligent and stylish” guide to the new technologies that are transforming our everyday lives, in ways both good and bad (Guardia...

“Marx did not reject the idea of a human nature. He was right not to do so.”That is the conclusion of this passionate and polemical new work by Nor...

The 1870s in France – Rimbaud’s moment, and the subject of this book – is a decade virtually ignored in most standard histories in France. Yet it w...

Cited by Lukács as a principal source of literary modernism, Walter Benjamin’s study of the baroque stage-form called Trauerspiel (literally, “mour...

Ernesto Laclau is best known for co-authoring Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, with Chantal Mouffe. Politically active in the social and student mo...

Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927...

A haunting, intimate account of the women and men who built a feminist revolution in the middle of the Arab Spring.In 2012, the joyful hopes of the...

Raiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerfu...

See how one militant union organizer fought the bosses—and national labor leaders—in this “breathtaking trip through the union-organizing scene” (B...