To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Karl Marx, a range of Marxists choose their favourite book by and about the great man. With contributions from China Miéville, Sara Farris, Mike Davis, Esther Leslie and more!
In this career-spanning interview with George Souvlis, Esther Leslie discusses Walter Benjamin, animated film, the history of color, the Historical Materialism project, and the commemoration of the revolutionary past.
Below is a short essay on train station novels written by Walter Benjamin for Frankfurter Zeitung in 1930, collected in The Storyteller, and translated by Sam Dolbear, Esther Leslie and Sebastian Truskolaski.