Passerby Club

Book strip #1

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  Glitch Feminism

  by Legacy Russell

  The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists: we are connected all the time. How do we find out who we are within this digital era? Where do we create the space to explore our...
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  Happy Hour

  by Marlowe Granados

  With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granados’s stunning début brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York CityRefreshing and wry in ...
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  Self-Defense

  by Elsa Dorlin

  Translated by Kieran Aarons

  Is violent self-defense ethical? In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, capitalism, there has long been a dividing line between bodies "worthy of defending" and those who have been disar...
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  The Intervals of Cinema

  by Jacques Rancière

  Translated by John Howe

  The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book the acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière relates cinema to literature and theatre. With literature, ...
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  Minima Moralia

  by Theodor Adorno

  Translated by Edmund F.N. Jephcott

  Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in mid-cen...
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  Feminist City

  by Leslie Kern

  What should a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space wi...
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  Girl Online

  by Joanna Walsh

  The unwritten contract of the internet, that a user is what is used, extends from the well-examined issue of data privacy and consent to the very selves women are encouraged to create in order to a...
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  The Care Manifesto

  by The Care Collective

  The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care—childcare, healthcare, elder care—to care for the natural world. We live in a world where careless...
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  On Ideology

  by Louis Althusser

  Translated by Ben Brewster

  The publication of For Marx and Reading Capital established Louis Althusser as one of the most influential figures in the Western Marxist tradition. On Ideology charts Althusser’s critique of the t...
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  Post-Growth Living

  by Kate Soper

  The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth, and endless consumption of cheap disposa...
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  Terminal Boredom

  by Izumi Suzuki

  Translated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi and Helen O'Horan

  On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's perception of the world is violently int...
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  The Left Hemisphere

  by Razmig Keucheyan

  Translated by Gregory Elliott

  As the crisis of capitalism unfolds, the need for alternatives is felt ever more intensely. The struggle between radical movements and the forces of reaction will be merciless. A crucial battlefiel...
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  One-Way Street

  by Walter Benjamin

  Introduction by Susan Sontag

  Translated by Edmund F.N. Jephcott and Kingsley Shorter

  Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings...
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  Portraits

  by John Berger

  John Berger, one of the world’s most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century conceptual artis...
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  Aesthetics and Politics

  by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht and Georg Lukács

  Afterword by Fredric Jameson

  No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics...
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  Critique of Everyday Life

  by Henri Lefebvre

  The three-volume text by Henri Lefebvre is perhaps the richest, most prescient work about modern capitalism to emerge from one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is now availabl...
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  Revolting Prostitutes

  by Juno Mac and Molly Smith

  How the law harms sex workers - and what they want insteadDo you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justi...
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  Feminism or Death

  by Francoise d'Eaubonne

  Translated by Ruth Hottell

  Originally published in French in 1974, radical feminist Francoise d’Eaubonne surveyed women’s status around the globe and argued that the stakes of feminist struggle was not about equality but abo...