Book strip #1

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  How We Walk

  by Matthew Beaumont

  You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Matthew Beaumont argues that our standing, walking body holds the social traumas of history and its racialized inequalities. Our posture and gait r...
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  A Philosophy of Walking

  by Frédéric Gros

  Translated by John Howe

  By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history ... The freedom in walking lies in not being anyone; for the walking body has no...
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  A Walk Through Paris

  by Eric Hazan

  Translated by David Fernbach

  Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, leads us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, passing such familiar landmarks as the Luxembourg Gardens, the Pompidou Cent...
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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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  The Walker

  by Matthew Beaumont

  Can you get lost in a crowd? It is polite to stare at people walking past on the street? What differentiates the city of daylight and the nocturnal metropolis? What connects walking, philosophy a...
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  Nightwalking

  by Matthew Beaumont

  Afterword by Will Self

  Foreword by Will Self

  In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Matthew Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: the fetid, treacherous streets known to Chaucer and...
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  Faraway the Southern Sky

  by Joseph Andras

  Translated by Simon Leser

  Fleeing persecution in Indochina, the young Ho Chi Minh arrived in Paris as World War I was sputtering to a close. A painfully shy twentysomething, he joined the shadowy figures of the demimonde, t...
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  Balzac's Paris

  by Eric Hazan

  In Balzac’s vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured to create a complete picture of contemporary French society and manners. Within this work is a lovin...
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  Rebel Cities

  by David Harvey

  Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and politica...