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The Age of Jihad

by Patrick Cockburn

From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East’s disintegration

23 posts
Rethinking the French Revolution

by George Comninel
“Bold and convincing.”—Village Voice
7 posts
Pinochet and Me

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

by Marco d’Eramo

“Serious-minded and acutely insightful social analysis.”—Bookwatch

1 post

Iran Without Borders

by Hamid Dabashi
A history of the cosmopolitan forces that made contemporary Iran
6 posts
Iran Without Borders

by Hamid Dabashi
A history of the cosmopolitan forces that made contemporary Iran
6 posts
Buda’s Wagon

by Mike Davis
The brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of the “poor man’s air force,” the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction
16 posts
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

by Mike Davis

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.’s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiracies

22 posts

Ecology of Fear

by Mike Davis

A new edition of this classic book on Los Angeles

2 posts
If They Come in the Morning …

Edited by Angela Y. Davis

With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power

73 posts
Late Victorian Holocausts

by Mike Davis

A magisterial melding of global ecological and political history, disclosing the nineteenth-century roots of underdevelopment in what became the Third World

19 posts
The Monster Enters

by Mike Davis

A new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes—the Avian flu, SARS, and now, Covid-19

2 posts

Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class

by Mike Davis

A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States

26 posts
Set the Night on Fire

by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener

A magisterial, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the Sixties

18 posts
Auschwitz Report

by Leonardo De Benedetti and Primo Levi
Among the first written accounts of the concentration camps—a major literary and historical discovery
4 posts
Operation Ajax

by Mike de Seve
Graphic true-life spy thriller about the CIA mission that overthrew Iran’s democracy
11 posts

The Communist Horizon

by Jodi Dean

10 posts
Masks of Anarchy

by Michael Demson
A graphic history of a poem that became aninspiration to immigrant workers in New York
11 posts
The Cultural Front

by Michael Denning
A panoramic history of the culture of Depression-era America and the Popular Front.
2 posts
Culture in the Age of Three Worlds

by Michael Denning
Denning analyses the political and intellectual battles over the meanings of culture.
2 posts

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