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This collection is designed to answer the demands of students and socialists, teachers and interested readers, for a comprehensive critique of the ...

Most writing on the dramatic events in the former Soviet Union has been based on the assumption that Russia is engaged in a transition from “state ...

Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump In a world where truth is cast in doubt and shame has gone missing, what are artists ...

Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump In a world where truth is cast in doubt and shame has gone missing, what are artists ...

A radical architect examines the changing fortunes of the contemporary cityMichael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural ...

This scintillating intellectual and political history provides a new understanding of racism, and a better way to fight itLiberals have been arguin...

Two leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practiceIn What Is Cultural Criticism?, two leading critics grap...

What is Love? provides a timely appreciation of Richard Carlile’s neglected shocker, Every Woman’s Book. Originally published in 1826, it scored a ...

Jean-Paul Sartre, at the height of his powers, debates with Italy’s leading intellectualsIn 1961, the prolific French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre...

Jean-Paul Sartre, at the height of his powers, debates with Italy’s leading intellectualsIn 1961, the prolific French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre...

Roberto Mangabeira Unger brings together his work in legal and social theory. He argues for the reconstruction of legal analysis as a discipline of...

What Should the Left Propose? is a manifesto that engages a vital issue of our time: the program for which Leftists should stand, now that the ideo...

An exquisite examination of a sexual culture in crisisWhat if we took sex out of the box marked “special,” either the worst or best thing that a hu...

An exquisite examination of a sexual culture in crisisWhat if we took sex out of the box marked “special,” either the worst or best thing that a hu...

On February 22, 1895, a naval force laid siege to Brass, the chief city of the Ijo people of Nembe in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. After severe fighting,...

From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been tr...

White Savages in the South Seas is a book about Polynesia after the cruise ships have sailed, the jet has flown off into the sunset and the maitai ...

This is a book about Polynesia after the cruise ship has left, the jet has flown off into the sunset, and the mai tai curtain has dropped on a drea...

Rising temperatures and the rise of the far right. What disasters happen when they meet?In the first study of the far right’s role in the climate c...

On March 16, 1998, the CIA’s Inspector General, Fred Hitz, finally let the cat out of the bag in an aside at a Congressional Hearing. Hitz told the...

In 1984, indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchú published a harrowing account of life under a military dictatorship in Guatemala. That autobio...

A deeply affecting–and infuriating–portrait of the life and death of a courageous indigenous leaderThe first time Honduran indigenous leader Berta ...

Why the wind, and energy it produces, should not be private propertyThe energy transition has begun. To succeed—to replace fossil fuels with wind a...

What ecological politics should the left propose? In Who Will Build the Ark?, leading radical thinkers debate left alternatives to runaway global h...