In a review for Booklist Mark Knoblauch says Night of the Golden Butterfly, which concludes the Islam Quintet, "offers great insight into the history and culture of the Muslim world."

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By Clara Heyworth / 15 April 2010 / post comment

Ahead of his 'Obama's War' lecture Monday April 19th, Tariq Ali answers questions for the Brooklyn Rail. Ali's lecture will be part of the London Reveiw of Books 30th anniversary celebrations in New York this spring and will be followed in October by the publication of a new book, The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad.

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By Clara Heyworth / 12 April 2010 / post comment

Geoff Manaugh has reviewed Stephen Graham's Cities Under Siege for BldgBlog, discussing the new book in relation to Mike Davis' Planet of Slums.

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By Clara Heyworth / 12 April 2010 / post comment

In his review of The New Old World for the Nation, Mark Mazower declares the new book "as insightful, combative and invigorating as its illustrious predecessors." The illustrious precessors in question include Spectrum, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism and Lineages of the Absolutist State.

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By Clara Heyworth / 08 April 2010 / 1 comment

Nicholas Brown reviews the "exhilarating new book on the dialectic" by renowned Marxist critic Fredric Jameson. In the review for Mediations, Brown is very clear: Valences of the Dialectic isn't just a book about the dialectic, it's a "profound contribution to dialectical thought."

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By Clara Heyworth / 06 April 2010 / 1 comment