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Exploring the philosophy of disobedienceThe world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent question for everyone. In this pr...

How technology and the politics of attention changed the way we look at artThe ways we encounter contemporary art and performance has changed. How ...

How technology and the attention economy shape contemporary art and performanceThe reception of art and performance is changing. Smartphones and so...

In this set of devastating essays, Gareth Peirce analyzes the corruption of legal principles and practices in both the US and the UK that has accom...

A group portrait of six of the finest historians of the First World WarIn Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged hist...

A group portrait of six of the finest historians of the First World WarIn Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged hist...

How have the fall of the USSR and the long dominance of Putin reshaped Russian politics and culture?Ilya Budraitskis, one of the country's most pro...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, ...

Divide and Fall?, the first full-length analysis of the post-Cold War revival of ethnic partition, is a major intervention in the study of internat...

Collective youth up trees or down tunnels, protest camps and all-night raves across the land—these are the spectacular features of the politics and...

A searing denunciation of French torture in Algeria by a classic feminist intellectIn 1960, as the Algerian War for Independence entered its sixth ...

Ho Chi Minh, the founder of the Vietminh and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, having defeated Japanese and French colonialist becam...

Recent international interest in the painters of the Mexican mural movement, such as Rivera and Orozco, has brought Latin American art to a wider a...

From the 1880s to the 1920s, a profound social awakening among women extended the possibilities of change far beyond the struggle for the vote. Ami...

Over the last quarter-century, Palestinian cinema has emerged as a major artistic force on the global scene. Deeply rooted in the historic struggle...

The anatomy of Britain on the edge of Brexit, by Orwell Prize winning journalistSince Britain’s 2016 referendum on EU membership, the nation has be...

The anatomy of Britain on the edge of Brexit, by Orwell Prize winning journalistSince Britain’s 2016 referendum on EU membership, the nation has be...

Drone Warfare is the first comprehensive analysis of one of the fastest growing—and most secretive—fronts in global conflict: the rise of robot war...

A brilliant novel about memory, love, and the clash between the old world and the new, set in 1950s Spain “He turned his back on the old man to mou...

What is the function of art in the era of digital globalization?How can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, gro...

Edward Thompson, perhaps the greatest post-war historian in the English-speaking world, died in 1993. In this readable and unabashedly appreciative...

A witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasiesEarthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Droug...

Twenty-four economists discuss how they promote egalitarianism, democracy and ecological sanity through research, activism, and policy engagement E...