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Island Stories

by Raphael Samuel
“The sheer scope and erudition of these pages is stunning.”—Terry Eagleton, Guardian
2 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
The Beginning of the End

by Tom Nairn and Angelo Quattrocchi

Two superbly written accounts of the events of May 1968.

4 posts

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.

2 posts
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...

1 post
Dead Again

by Masha Gessen
Intellectuals’ search for identity and relevance in modern Russia.
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
Heathcliff and the Great Hunger

by Terry Eagleton
Reading Irish culture in the light of the socio-political history that conditioned it.
1 post
Senseless Acts of Beauty

by George McKay

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

1 post
A Millennium of Family Change

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

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?
Cinderella Goes to Market

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

by Van Gosse
The Destruction of Yugoslavia

by Branka Magaš

A Yugoslavian’s analysis of her country’s descent into violence.

A History of Vodka

by William Pokhlebkin

“Very learned, very informative.”—Victor Kiernan

2 posts
Church Fathers, Independent Virgins

by Joyce Salisbury
Salisbury explores the relationship between Church doctrines and the position of women.
3 posts
Misplaced Ideas

by Roberto Schwarz
Essays on history, culture and identity by one of the foremost Latin American intellectuals of our time.
1 post
Hungary: The Rise and Fall of Feasible Socialism

by Nigel Swain

Why did Hungarian socialism—the most innovative in the Eastern Europe—fade away so easily?

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