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Rabelais’s tale the giant prince Gargantua is a vast and inescapable cluster of qualities and activities; his violence, greed and incontinence are ...

An urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage of the genocide in Gaza, told by Palestinians.Gaza: T...

In the labor market and workplace, anti-discrimination rules, affirmative action policies, and pay equity procedures exercise a direct effect on ge...

In the labor market and workplace, anti-discrimination rules, affirmative action policies, and pay equity procedures exercise a direct effect on ge...

A guide to the thinkers and the ideas that will shape the futureWhat happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who...

A gripping exposé of how México’s armed forces became the unexpected powerbrokers of the nation’s political, economic, and social life.Based on in-...

Our fates lie in our genes and not in the stars, said James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. But Watson could not have predicted the ...

Shortlisted for the Architectural Book of the YearHow gentrification is killing our cities, and what we can do about itWhat does gentrification loo...

On the 100th anniversary of the publication of History and Class Consciousness, a new edition of this indispensable guide to Lukacs's thought and p...

Georges Bataille was a philosopher, writer, librarian, pornographer and a founder of the influential journals Critique and Acéphale. He has had an ...

How neoliberalism is causing a crisis in GermanyUpward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the “old” West German welfare state...

With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx’s texts directly and in detail. H...

What happens when a woman goes online? She becomes a girl.The unwritten contract of the internet, that a user is what is used, extends from the wel...

Giving Ground is prompted by two phenomena whose paradoxical convergence is currently altering our experience and conception of urban relations and...

A New York Times Best Art Book of 2020 A new manifesto for cyberfeminism: finding liberation in the glitch between body, gender, and technology The...

Commended in the PEN/Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts (2001).In this free-wheeling guided tour to the cityscape o...

God, who has changed the lives – and deaths – of men and women, has in turn changed His face and His meaning several times over since His birth thr...

God, who has changed the lives – and deaths – of men and women, has in turn changed His face and His meaning several times over since His birth thr...

A historian's personal journey into the complex questions of immigration, home and nationFrom Ireland to London in the 1950s, Derry in the Troubles...

In 1945, US intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in t...

Does gentrification destroy diversity? Or does it thrive on it? Boston’s South End, a legendary working-class neighborhood with the largest Victori...

The history of the war from the past one hundred years is a history of bombing“Tripoli, 1 November 1911: I decided that today I would try to drop b...