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A provocative, beautiful and  defiant essay highlighting the pitfalls of integration in France by a talented young writer with North African rootsI...

In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it?Everyone needs and deserves housing. Bu...

In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it?Everyone needs and deserves housing. Bu...

In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it?Everyone needs and deserves housing. Bu...

The renowned philosophical sharpshooter looks for the kernel of truth in the fascist politics of the past—offering an adrenaline-fueled manifesto f...

In Hiding is the spellbinding story of a man who spent thirty years holed up in his own home to escape execution. Manuel Cortés was a Socialist Par...

Works of Wilde’s annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright.The Soul of Man Under Socialism draw on...

Works of Wilde’s annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright.The Soul of Man Under Socialism draw on...

Ronald Fraser, the internationally renowned oral historian, turns his attention to his own origins in this remarkable memoir. In Search of a Past g...

"One of the finest, most eloquent and painfully honest memoirs of the Palestinian exile and displacement."–New StatesmanAn intimate memoir of the 1...

Ghada Karmi’s acclaimed memoir relates her childhood in Palestine, flight to Britain after the catastrophe, and coming of age in Golders Green, the...

Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe’s most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. M...

The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the Internet In the early twentieth century, art and its institutions came under critique from ...

The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the Internet In the early twentieth century, art and its institutions came under critique from ...

A groundbreaking debunking of moderate attempts to resolve financial crisesIn the ruins of the 2007–2008 financial crisis, self-proclaimed progress...

Artists and critics explore the concept of Real Abstraction to help understand contemporary cultural productionIn the Mind, But Not From There: Rea...

Following the locust years of the neo-liberal revolution, social democracy was the great victor at the fin-de-siècle elections. Today, parties desc...

Carlos Fuentes once observed that to be a Spanish American intellectual was to fulfill the roles, by default, of “a tribune, a member of parliament...

What have been the major changes in the intellectual landscape of the left since the mid seventies? Have they on balance represented an emancipatio...

After the Second World War, nationalism emerged as the principle expression of resistance to Western imperialism in a variety of regions from the I...

In this book, noted sociologist Michael Mann argues that the “new American imperialism” is actually a new militarism. Dissecting the economic, poli...