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What’s his real political record? This is the first unsparing look at the man whom his parents raised from birth to be president of the United Stat...

In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabo...

Unravelling the mystery of Alexandre KojèveIn this intellectual biography, critic and philosopher Boris Groys turns to the Arthur Rimbaud of modern...

A fascinating portrait of life with the Black Panthers in Algiers: a story of liberation and radical politicsFollowing the Algerian war for indepen...

A fascinating portrait of life with the Black Panthers in Algiers: a story of liberation and radical politicsFollowing the Algerian war for indepen...

A fascinating portrait of life with the Black Panthers in Algiers: a story of liberation and radical politicsFollowing the Algerian war for indepen...

A rich and audacious account of the mutually reinforcing transformations of capitalism and technology in the age of AIThis book provides a critical...

This is especially true of the science fiction film—a genre as old as cinema itself—which has rarely received the serious attention devoted to such...

Science fiction, more than any other film genre, allows cinema to exhibit its own distinctive matters of expression. Whether these be the state-of-...

Robert Hughes once described Michael Sorkin as “unique in America––brave, principled, highly informed and fiercely funny.” All Over the Map confirm...

American history told from the vantage of immigration politics It is often said that with the election of Donald Trump nativism was raised from the...

Fredric Jameson takes on the allegorical formWorks do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (incl...

How London was bought and sold by the Super-Rich, and what it means for the rest of usWho owns London? Today, the city is the epicentre of the worl...

How London was bought and sold by the Super-Rich, and what it means for the rest of us Who owns London? In recent decades, it has fallen into the h...

This important piece of investigative reportage studies the roots of right-wing extremism in American culture and history to understand its modern-...

This important piece of investigative reportage studies the roots of right-wing extremism in American culture and history to understand its modern-...

When a fire rips through the Venetian Arsenal in 1569, the enigmatic Emanuele De Zante, spy-catcher and secret agent, is betrayed by his lover, imp...

What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, ...

The story of how you created internet culture and why it mattersSince the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection...

The invasion and occupation of Iraq have sparked considerable discussion about the nature of American imperialism, but most of it is focused on the...

From the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night—”a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity”—Baudrillard mixes...

A decisive analytic critique of US foreign policy by one of America’s greatest historiansAmerica's Fatal Leap deconstructs US geopolitics after the...

A decisive analytic critique of US foreign policy by one of America’s greatest historiansAmerica's Fatal Leap deconstructs US geopolitics after the...