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In March 1998, India broke a quarter-century’s silence when it detonated a series of nuclear devices in the Rajasthan desert. Having announced it p...

On the politics of literature: how writers create the worldPankaj Mishra beautifully demonstrates, using examples from all over the world, an impor...

Essential essays on key Marxist writers from a leading political thinkerLiterature of Revolution explores the pivotal texts and topics in the Marxi...

The extended critical interview is especially flexible as a form, by turns tenacious and glancing, elliptical or sustained, combining argument and ...

The celebrated philosopher explores the end of global capitalism at the hands of its key drivers—the ‘4 riders of the apocalypse’—in this analysis ...

There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Žižek has identified the four horsemen of th...

Why is criminal justice so central to American politics? Lockdown America notonly documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing,pri...

School violence has fallen steadily for twenty years. Yet in schools throughout the United States, Annette Fuentes finds metal detectors and drug t...

Over the last two decades, contemporary French philosophy has exercised a powerful influence on intellectual life, across both Europe and America. ...

Bread and circuses—free food and mass entertainment—was the name contemporary social observers gave to the ancient Roman practice of keeping the co...

Erudite, witty and often controversial, The London Review of Books informs and entertains its readers with a fortnightly dose of the best and livel...

In this revised and expanded edition of Long Waves of Capitalist Development, Ernest Mandel seeks to explain the underlying determinants of the boo...

Exiled in 1948, Palestinians were robbed of their private property when looting became weaponizedDuring the 1948 War, Israeli fighters and resident...

"The dark sides of the War of Independence are illuminated in a book on the massive Jewish looting of Arab property then, showing the link between ...

The definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam Hochschild In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led Br...

A transgender woman reflects on her late transition and coming out, trans politics and culture, motherhood and memory, in this provocative epistola...

A transgender woman reflects on her late transition and coming out, trans politics and culture, motherhood and memory, in this provocative epistola...

A MAJOR NEW STUDY OF THE MANSON MURDERS, SITUATING THE INFAMOUS CRIMINAL CASE AT A FULCRUM MOMENT IN HISTORYIn August 1969, members of charismatic ...

Why did the Arab Spring have such calamitous outcomes?Loved Egyptian Night fundamentally reassesses the Arab Spring, refuting the stories the Weste...

The first – and long-awaited – major biography of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da SilvaLula is among the greatest political figures in Braz...

Kathy Acker was one of the most original, subversive and influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and notoriously, as a consu...

“We do not publish our own drafts, that is, our own mistakes, but we do sometimes publish other people’s,” Louis Althusser once observed of Marx’s ...

Challenging the stereotypical images of the dominating male and the subservient woman, Machos, Mistresses, Madonnas addresses the variety of repres...