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A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the coming encounter in his m...

Darkly funny account of the office worker’s mindset by the celebrated French novelistA long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up...

Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformityIn the 1950s, a French journalist joked that t...

Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. H...

The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination o...

Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity, was murdered on 17 January 1961.Democratically elect...

Robert Fitch argues that, within a generation, New York City has been transformed from the richest city in the world to one of the poorest in North...

This hugely influential study on the psychology of authoritarianism was written in answer to Hitler’s Germany—and now rings more relevant than ever...

Why you should read all three volumes of Marx's Capital togetherThe Automatic Fetish recreates Marx's analysis of capital, step-by-step, through th...

A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the cityThe Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as pr...

A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the cityThe Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as pr...

The true history of the imperial deal that transformed the Middle East and sealed the fate of PalestineOn 2 November 1917, the British government, ...

The true history of the imperial deal that transformed the Middle East and sealed the fate of PalestineOn 2 November 1917, the British government, ...

The violence that has ravaged Algeria has often defied explanation. Regularly invoked in debates about political Islam, transitions to democracy, g...

A radical corrective to Western misconceptions that reduce Algeria’s tragedy to a clash of stereotypes The violence that has ravaged Algeria in rec...

The BBC: the mouthpiece of the Establishment?The BBC is one of the most important institutions in Britain; it is also one of the most misunderstood...

Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, its legacy continues to inspire activists, artists and theorists around the world. ...

An Economist and Financial Times “Best Book of the Year”   “Harrowing” true stories from two years of immersion reporting on the migrant trail from...

In May 1968, France stood on the verge of full-blooded revolution. Here a rhythmic, vivid evocation from eyewitness Angelo Quattrocchi is complemen...

Jameson’s first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin’s work. The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's majo...

Jameson’s first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin’s work. The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's majo...

The prophetic poetry of slavery and its abolitionDuring the pitched battle over slavery in the United States, Black writers—enslaved and free—allie...

First English-language collection of writings by the legendary nineteenth-century insurrectionistLouis Auguste Blanqui (1805–1881) was one of the m...