A leading German scholar reveals the secret history of Nabokov’s infamous novelDoes it ring a bell? The first-person narrator, a cultivated man of middle age, looks back on the story of an amour fou.
A genealogy of fanaticism—unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of CivilizationsThe idea of fanaticism as a deviant or extreme variant of an already irrational set of relig
A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth centuryThis is the first comprehensive historical perspective on the relationship between Black workers and the
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, ?i?ek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important todayLenin’s originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the s
The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond What is th
Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationshipSeen as a pioneering figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise
A radical call for solidarity between humans and non-humansWhat is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorgan
From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US p
Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to The Wire High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson’s major new work in which mode
Radical insider’s account of how the city of London really worksThe City, as London’s financial centre is known, is the world’s biggest international banking and foreign exchange market, shaping the d
A heartbreaking, full-color graphic novel of the refugee dramaIn the French port town of Calais, the historic home of the lace industry, a city within a city has arisen. This new town, known as the Ju
A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identityElizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice arises from over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberatio
What happens when angry young rebels become wary older women, ageing in a leaner, meaner time: a time which exalts only the ‘new’, in a ruling orthodoxy daily disparaging all it portrays as the ‘old’?
Millions of immigrants risk deportation and imprisonment by living in the US without legal status. They are living underground, with little protection from exploitation at the hands of human smugglers
Inside This Place, Not of It reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States. In their own words, the thirteen narrators in this book recount the
A passionate attack on the tyranny of expertsModern life is being destroyed by experts and professionals. We have lost our amateur spirit and need to rediscover the radical and liberating pleasure of
Acclaimed fantasy author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside downThe renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Miéville has long been inspired by the ideals of
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 is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? Ge
Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In fear of the horrors of totalitarianism should we submit ourselves to a miserable third way of economic l
A fascinating history of the political theory of hegemonyFew terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political science, with so little agreement about their exact mea
Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of
Black rebellion has returned, with dramatic protests in scores of cities and campuses, bringing with it a renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and thought. Here, key scholarl
The lives of one of America’s invisible communities--migrant farmworkersMore than a million men, women, and children work in American agriculture, and yet their stories are rarely told, their low-wage
A surprising radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the cityThe Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting in Europe and North America. Drawing on extensi
A surprising radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the cityThe Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting in Europe and North America. Drawing on extensi
Five leading thinkers on the concept of ‘rights’ in an era of rightlessnessSixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, deprived of her German citizenship as a Jew and in exile from her coun
The acclaimed and controversial historian turns his critical gaze on the writing of history todayDrawing on his four decades as a professional historian, Shlomo Sand interrogates the academic discipli
On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali paints an illuminating portrait of LeninAt the end of his life, Lenin wrote ‘we didn’t know everything’, acknowledging the dilemmas he faced on th
What are the myths—and reality—behind the state of Israel?Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoken and radical thinkers writing on the history of Israel. In this groundbreaking and controversial book h
Electrifying investigation of White House lies about the assassination of Osama bin LadenIn 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Os
The violence that has ravaged Algeria has often defied explanation. Regularly invoked in debates about political Islam, transitions to democracy, globalization, and the right of humanitarian interfere
Furies of Indian Communalism is a powerful and rigorous analysis of the growing phenomenon of Hindu communalism, which currently threatens to tear India apart. Placing the politics of Hindu nationalis
An introduction to Thomas Piketty’s monumental workUS Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century as “perhaps the most important book of the last dec
This is a book about one of the deadliest places in the world El Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world over the past ten years, with Guatemala close behind. Every day
In this groundbreaking work, French legal scholar Alain Supiot examines the relationship of society to legal discourse.He arguesthat the law is how justice is implmented in secular society, but it isn
One of the world’s leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twen
Magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American Empire.Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urge
A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first timeLegend, saga, myth, riddle, proverb, case, anecdote, fairy tale, joke: André Jolles understands each of these nine “simple form
A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first timeLegend, saga, myth, riddle, proverb, case, anecdote, fairy tale, joke: André Jolles understands each of these nine “simple form
What is money, where does it come from, and who controls it?Money makes the world go round: but what is it really? And how is it produced? Above all, who controls its production, and in whose interest
