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The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas. For over three centuries enslave...

Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to The Wire High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the prem...

Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to The Wire High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the prem...

Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to The Wire High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the prem...

From Ducks, Newburyport to zombie movies and the Fast and Furious franchise, how climate anxiety permeates our cultureThe art and literature of our...

Despite much talk of its decline, the nuclear family persists as a structure central to contemporary society, a fact to be lamented, according to t...

Although family values are frequently lamented for being in decline, our society continues to be structured around the nuclear family. The Anti-Soc...

Although family values are frequently lamented for being in decline, our society continues to be structured around the nuclear family. The Anti-Soc...

A major essay on the thought of the great Italian MarxistPerry Anderson’s essay “The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci,” first published in New Left Re...

A major essay on the thought of the great Italian MarxistPerry Anderson’s essay “The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci,” first published in New Left Re...

The Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achie...

The Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achie...

How the political violence of modern jihad echoes the crises of western liberalismIn this authoritative, accessible study, historian Suzanne Schnei...

The definitive feminist analysis of reproductive and ‘caring’ labor to emerge from Italian feminism of the 1970sEmerging from the great social uphe...

“One of the most singular literary personalities in the world, a writer who resembled absolutely no one else.”—Italo Calvino“A satire for the autho...

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...