Archive of Set the Night on Fire

Ciarán O'Rourke remembers the work of Mike Davis (1946-2022)

After losing a coveted niche in the trucking industry, I started UCLA as an adult freshman, attracted by rumors of a high-powered seminar on Capital led by Bob Brenner in the History Department.

Adam Shatz's classic profile of Mike Davis from 1997. Shatz touches on the writing and success of City of Quartz, Davis's time working at New Left Review, and his general refusal to uncritically follow the postmodern trends of class-skeptical left intellectual life into the late 20th century.

The essential Mike Davis.

History remains the roiling, contradictory, international human story that it has always been. ALL books are 40% off until July 8th!

Marking the 57th anniversary of the 1965 April revolution in the Dominican Republic and the subsequent US military invasion, historian Amaury Rodriguez speaks to Mike Davis about the left-wing mobilizations in solidarity with the Dominican people and the legacy and lessons for anti-imperialist activists today. 

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Publishing in an extraordinary time: we share our highlights from, and experience of, this year.