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How the military used sleep as a weapon—and how soldiers fought backOn April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mal...

A bold new vision of the modern English novelThe leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the fiction of the past century, ident...

Playwright, literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, the Brontës, Swift and Joyce, scourge of postmodernism, autobiographer — T...

One of the world’s most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital—and post-9/11—age. This witty and allusive...

On January 3, 1914, Pancho Villa became Hollywood’s first Mexican superstar. In signing an exclusive movie contract, Villa agreed to keep other fil...

New translation of a crucial study of modern capitalism, famously used by Lenin as his basis for analyzing imperialism.This is a new translation by...

This illuminating study of Benjamin’s final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopherRevolutionary critic of the philosophy of progr...

Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashesFire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historic...

Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashesFire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historic...

The leading philosopher of our time tracks the demise of liberalism through landmark events of the 21st century—from 9/11 to the farce of the finan...

“‘Hegemonic decline,’ to borrow a phrase from one of Trump’s ancestors, makes one want to release the safety catch on one’s Browning. A petrified d...

Italy’s political disaster under a microscopeThere is little that hasn’t gone wrong for Italy in the last three decades. Economic growth has flatli...

A history of why great powers decline, from Spain to the United StatesThe extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as...

“In the annals of popular protest in America, these have been shining hours, achieved entirely outside the conventional arena of orderly protest, w...

A leading radical intellectual tackles the many controversial interpretations of Wagner’s workFor over a century, Richard Wagner’s music has been t...

A new edition of an influential biography of the early Victorian socialist feminist writer Flora Tristan.Active in the 1830s and 1840s, Flora Trist...

Contrasting the frontiers of this haunted geography with the severity of her life at home, this extraordinary rite of passage includes a spectacula...

The development of romantic love, the evolution of national and regional cuisines, the globalization of Chinese food, the histories of various tabo...

A material analysis of the sign which deepens Marx's critique of political economy for spectacular times.What if the problems of modern society don...

What is the “populist moment” and what does it mean for the left?We are currently witnessing in Western Europe a “populist moment” that signals the...

A new, ecological approach to images by a renowned philosopherWhen Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an “ecology of images,” she meant it as ...

In this innovative work, Guglielmo Carchedi argues that only an analysis centered on class as the basic unit of social life, with production and di...

This is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to b...