Archive of The Invention of Paris

Our Anthropology reading for the academic year ahead: all 40% off until the end of September.

Eric Hazan, the famed French historian and publisher whose book Le Tumulte de Paris, a wander through the streets of this city that he both adores and abhors, was published earlier this year in French, welcomes us to his home in Belleville.

Who are our cities for? A reading list on the geography of inequality, the politics of cities and planning and the fights for more just and sustainable urban environments.

Eric Hazan interviewed about the Gilets Jaunes protests.

Since 1998 the editor Eric Hazan has published radical-left political works including masterstrokes like the Invisible Committee’s The Coming Insurrection and controversial titles like Houria Bouteldja’s Les Blancs, les Juifs et nous. In his two decades running La Fabrique, he has maintained an undimmed ambition for editorial independence, and his subversive power.

Andy Merrifield discusses the influence of Guy Debord and the Situationist International on the events of May '68.

A reading list to celebrate works of and inspired by the Situationist International, on the 50th anniversary of the May 1968 uprisings.

A virtual guide to Eric Hazan's A Walk Through Paris.