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Robert Hughes once described Michael Sorkin as “unique in America––brave, principled, highly informed and fiercely funny.” All Over the Map confirm...

Fredric Jameson takes on the allegorical formWorks do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (incl...

How London was bought and sold by the Super-Rich, and what it means for the rest of usWho owns London? Today, the city is the epicentre of the worl...

How London was bought and sold by the Super-Rich, and what it means for the rest of us Who owns London? In recent decades, it has fallen into the h...

This important piece of investigative reportage studies the roots of right-wing extremism in American culture and history to understand its modern-...

This important piece of investigative reportage studies the roots of right-wing extremism in American culture and history to understand its modern-...

When a fire rips through the Venetian Arsenal in 1569, the enigmatic Emanuele De Zante, spy-catcher and secret agent, is betrayed by his lover, imp...

What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, ...

The invasion and occupation of Iraq have sparked considerable discussion about the nature of American imperialism, but most of it is focused on the...

From the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night—”a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity”—Baudrillard mixes...

A decisive analytic critique of US foreign policy by one of America’s greatest historiansAmerica's Fatal Leap deconstructs US geopolitics after the...

Now newly updated, America’s Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United States’s special relationship with Saudi Arabia, also know...

How Trump got to the Oval Office—and how both parties and the mainstream media are keeping him thereDonald Trump’s residency in the White House is ...

Magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American EmpireSince the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been clo...

Magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American Empire.Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been cl...

A sweeping account of the way lesbian, gay, and bisexual people have challenged and changed societyIn this provocative book, Jeffrey Escoffier trac...

The Americas of the 1850s provides James Dunkerley with compelling material for this majestic and unorthodox book. Drawing on a range of contempora...

This definitive account of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination collects “an impressive array of testimony and evidence” to offer a new perspect...

This definitive account of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination collects “an impressive array of testimony and evidence” to offer a new perspect...

Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writers Fredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radical...

Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writers Fredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radical...

A history of the IDF that argues that Israel is a nation formed by its army.The Israeli army, officially named the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was...

What constitutes a nation’s literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with one another? In this groundbreaking study, Alexande...