A field manual to the technologies that are transforming our livesEverywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavati
Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish traditionJewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those re
Since his death in 1967, Ernesto “Che” Guevara has become a universally known revolutionary icon and political figure whose image is among the most recognizable in the world. This dramatic
How Jeremy Corbyn, the radical left candidate for the Labour leadership, won twice—and won bigDemolishing the Blairite opposition in 2015, Jeremy Corbyn saw off an attempted coup against his lea
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
The contributors bring to bear an unrivalled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, from Rear Window to Psycho, which is shown to be an exemplary source of postmodern defami
Rising inequality of income and power, along with the recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet there has been
Yitzhak Laor is one of Israel's most prominent dissidents and poets, a latter-day Spinoza who helps keep alive the critical tradition within Jewish culture. In this work he fearlessly dissects th
Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), was one of the most prominent anti-Stalinist Marxist intellectuals of his time. A political theorist and an economist, he was a brilliant orator in several languages. H
Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this c
What do men—white straight men in particular—want? In a series of witty and provocative investigations of American popular culture, Fred Pfeil exposes the contradictions in the construction of white h
A new edition of an influential biography of the early Victorian socialist feminist writer Flora Tristan.Active in the 1830s and 1840s, Flora Tristan is best known for her book "Workers' Union," an ac
A shocking expose of genocide denial.The 1994 genocide of the Tutsi, an attempt to exterminate a minority people, was unprecedented in speed and scale, comparable to the genocide of the Armenians by T
Expert analysis of Yemen's social and political crisis, with profound implications for the fate of the Arab World The democratic promise of the 2011 Arab Spring has unraveled in Yemen, triggering a di
The Story of Palestine's Stonemasons and the Building of Israel"They demolish our houses while we build theirs." This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem subur
What is the function of art in the era of digital globalization?How can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and proprietary digital technology?
"One of the most striking fanzines of recent years is Laura Oldfield Ford’s Savage Messiah, focussing on the politics, psychology and pop-cultural past of a different London postcode. Ford&rsquo
Poetry by Kay GabrielPhotography by Luc DelahayeArt by Bahar BehbahaniFiction by Katie Kane and David Naimon Richard Seymour: ‘Caedmon’s Dream: On the Po
The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this new edition, Harvey updates his classic text with a substanti
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalismThe first decade of the twenty-first century marked the demise of the current world order. Despite widesprea
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 financial crisis keeps us on edge and creates a diffuse sense of helplessness. Well-nigh unfathomable problems lead to measures that seem like emergency operations on the open heart of the Western
In Molecular Red, McKenzie Wark creates philosophical tools for the Anthropocene, our new planetary epoch, in which human and natural forces are so entwined that the future of one determines that of t
On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Budaexploded a horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite and iron scrap nearNew York’s Wall Street, killing 40 people. Since Buda’s prot
This brilliant group biography asks who were the Frankfurt School and why they matter todayThe Frankfurt Institute of Social Research, founded in 1923, but later moving to the US during the war, were
Once described by Simone de Beauvoir as France’s most exciting feminist writer, the sociologist Christine Delphy was a central figure in French feminism, and one of the first to focus on the structura
Michael Ignatieff has been one of the more influential establishment intellectuals of the English-speaking world, and is likely to become Prime Minister of Canada. His official story is that of an am
The very scale of the 1939–45 war has often tempted historians to study particularcampaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable and richly detailedhistory of the conflict, th
Traditional depictions of London at night have imagined a lawless orgy of depravityand pestilence. But is Britain’s capital after dark now as bland and unthreatening as anevening in any new pro
The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a "city-symphony" to the cinematic tradition that runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, Restless Cities tra
Since it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now some of that knowledge has been distilled into The Wir
A manifesto that tackles head-on the question of how the Left should respond to globalization and neoliberalism. Since the major ideological proposals of the past two hundred years fail to address to
In From A to X: A Story in Letters, internationally-acclaimed author John Berger conjures an epistolary romance between an insurgent named Xavier and his beloved A'ida. With every letter, a larger se
Baudrillard's work of the last two decades has downplayed the position of the critical subject and gone over to the standpoint of the object. Nowhere is this objective (non-)critique which results so
Stuart Hall has been an inspirational figure for generations of academics. His early work on the media, his influential use of Gramsci in understanding Britain in the late 1970s, his unique and influ
This startling study of early Christian attitudes toward sexuality begins with an account of the different stances adopted by the Church—from the Early Fathers’ view that sex and the female body were
A crisp and trenchant dissection of populism todayThe word 'populism' has come to cover all manner of sins. Yet despite the prevalence of its use, it is often difficult to understand what connects its
In order to become ethically acceptable, surrogacy must change beyond recognition. But we need more surrogacy, not less!The surrogacy industry is worth over 1 billion dollars a year, and many of its s
Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class. The gap between the public and its public officials might seem unbr
On the tracks of the killers of Rosa LuxemburgThe cold-blooded murder of revolutionary icons Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the pitched political battles of post-WWI Germany marks one of the gr
