Cultural & Literary Theory

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  The Antinomies of Realism

  by Fredric Jameson
  A groundbreaking analysis of the nineteenth-century novel
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  The Hamlet Doctrine

  by Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster
  What Shakespeare's greatest play tells us about the modern world
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  Against World Literature

  by Emily Apter
  On the problems of translation in literary study
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  The Bourgeois

  by Franco Moretti
  Who – and what – are the Bourgeois?

  1 post

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  The Last Resistance

  by Jacqueline Rose
  A bravura exploration of politics and writing in dark times.

  2 posts

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  Two Girls

  by Roberto Schwarz
  A groundbreaking collection of essays by the esteemed Brazilian literary critic

  1 post

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  Beauty and the Inferno

  by Roberto Saviano
  Essays on art, politics and life from the best-selling author of Gomorrah.

  1 post

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  Occupy!

  Edited by Carla Blumenkranz, Keith Gessen, et al.
  The first book to explore the Occupy movement in depth, with reportage and analysis.

  20 posts

  1 discussion

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  Karl Marx and World Literature

  by S. S. Prawer
  "A landmark in comparative literature in Britain."—George Steiner, Sunday Times

  1 post

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  The Notebook

  by José Saramago
  A lyrical and thought-provoking record of the last year in the life of the Nobel Prize–winning novelist.

  8 posts

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  Brecht and Method

  by Fredric Jameson
  “Elegant dissection of Brecht’s method, from estrangements to allegory and beyond.”—Modern Drama

  1 post

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  Freudian Slip

  by Sebastiano Timpanaro
  “A firework display of erudition.”—Perry Anderson.

  1 post

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  Minima Moralia

  by Theodor Adorno
  Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections.

  2 posts

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  Valences of the Dialectic

  by Fredric Jameson
  A comprehensive analysis of the philosophy of the dialectic.

  1 post

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  The Myths of Liberal Zionism

  by Yitzhak Laor
  One of Israel's most independent writers demystifies the "peace camp" liberals.

  6 posts

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  Speak, Nabokov

  by Michael Maar
  Master literary sleuth unearths Nabokov's life from his work.

  1 post