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To mark the 50th anniversary of Che Guevara's death.

Jason Moore on the origins of the twenty-first century's "distinct, but mutually formative" crises of capitalism and ecology.

An excerpt from Marianne Fritz's The Weight of Things with an introduction from translator Adrian Nathan West.

Ronald Grigor Suny discusses the Russian Revolution and its historiography. 

Should we debate whether another writer deserved the “honour” of the Nobel Prize in Literature more than Kazuo Ishiguro? Consider the nature of this particular distinction.

An exploration of Bernal's contribution to the politicization of science and scientists, above all the development of the Social Relations of Science movement.

"The thinness we strive for becomes spiritual" — Mark Greif's iconic essay on exercise, taken from Against Everything: On Dishonest Times.

Mark Greif picks his favourite essay collections, from Virginia Woolf to Susan Sontag, for the latest Five Book Plan. 

Marx’s original definition concerned political power as the direct manifestation of class antagonism, coupled with its opposite: the abolition of political power properly so-called in a fully realized socialist society. But what happens in between? Is it possible to break entrenched political power without necessarily resorting to the exercise of a fully articulated system of political power?

"Police are different things to different people" — an excerpt from Against Everything: On Dishonest Times by Mark Greif, a brilliant collection of essays dissecting everyday life under twenty-first-century capitalism.

Under the premise of social change, what many have come to rightfully recognize as the nonprofit industrial complex moves throughout the insides of genuine movements, commodifying, recycling, and taming anything too radical.

Introducing our Spring 2018 list! See all our forthcoming books and read exclusive extracts from Eric Hazan, Teresa Thornhill, and our new biography of Karl Marx.