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Slavoj Žižek

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Cinderella Goes to Market

by Barbara Einhorn
Assessing the position of women before and after the fall of state socialism.
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Where the Boys Are

by Van Gosse
Enigmas

by Mario Perniola
What do we fear most? Repetition or difference? The return of a barbarism that is remote and prehistoric or the advent of a barbarism that is technological as post-human?
A Millennium of Family Change

by Wally Seccombe
A powerful study of the changing structure of families.
5 posts

Senseless Acts of Beauty

by George McKay

“The secret history of the last two decades.”—Jon Savage

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Heathcliff and the Great Hunger

by Terry Eagleton
Reading Irish culture in the light of the socio-political history that conditioned it.
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Labor and the Course of American Democracy

by Charles Bergquist
“Groundbreaking political and ideological analysis.”—Carol A. Smith, UC Davis
The Thirty Years’ Wars

by Andrew Kopkind

In Boston in the 1970s he wrote articles and movie reviews for a range of publications and did regular political commentary for WBCN radio. With...

2 posts

Dead Again

by Masha Gessen
Intellectuals’ search for identity and relevance in modern Russia.
The Way the Wind Blew

by Ron Jacobs

Bombing its way into the headlines of the early 1970s, the Weather Underground was one of the most dramatic symbols of the anger felt by young...

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Viramma

by Viramma

An intensely personal and moving self-portrait of a woman living at the very margins of Indian society, informed by a sense of profound social change.

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The Beginning of the End

by Tom Nairn and Angelo Quattrocchi

Two superbly written accounts of the events of May 1968.

4 posts

The Origins of Postmodernity

by Perry Anderson

A history of the postmodern, and the role of Fredric Jameson in shaping it.

4 posts
The Salaried Masses

by Siegfried Kracauer

The classic study of white-collar lifestyle and culture in prewar Germany.

4 posts
Island Stories

by Raphael Samuel
“The sheer scope and erudition of these pages is stunning.”—Terry Eagleton, Guardian
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Afrocentrism

by Stephen Howe
“Precise and courageous ... A landmark.”—Brian Appleyard, Sunday Times

Of Myths and Movements

by Haripriya Rangan

Rangan appraises the grassroots social resistance within its cultural context to scrutinize the myths surrounding indigenous “tree huggers.”
Blaming the Victims

Edited by Christopher Hitchens and Edward W. Said

“These forcefully argued treatises will be as enlightening as they are disturbing.”—ALA Booklist

11 posts
Telling Lies About Hitler

by Richard J. Evans
In April 2000 a High Court judge branded the writer David Irving a racist, an antisemite, a Holocaust denier, and a falsifier of history. The key...
7 posts
Pinochet and Me

by Marc Cooper
“Masterfully evokes some of the darkest chapters of US Cold War policy.”—Warren Beatty
4 posts

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