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An Impatient Life

by Daniel Bensaïd

“France’s leading Marxist public intellectual.” –Tariq Ali

23 posts
In Defence of the Terror

by Sophie Wahnich
Provocative reassessment of the Great Terror as a price worth paying
14 posts
In Hiding

by Ronald Fraser
“So brief and yet so complete, so movingly human.”—Arthur Miller, New York Times
5 posts
The Indian Ideology

by Perry Anderson

"Well sourced and artfully crafted, offering a comprehensive history of India’s ideology” – Jacobin

7 posts

An Injury to All

by Kim Moody
Exposing the roots of modern “business unionism” and the causes of its decline.
10 posts
Insurgent Empire

by Priyamvada Gopal

How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire

28 posts
The Invention of Paris

by Eric Hazan

A radical guide to Paris through art, literature and revolution.

55 posts
The Invention of Sicily

by Jamie Mackay

A fascinating cultural history of this most magical of islands

6 posts

The Invention of Terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States

by Carola Dietze

Terrorism’s roots in Western Europe and the United States

1 post
The Invention of the Jewish People

by Shlomo Sand

The bestselling study of Jewish history

41 posts
The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland

by Shlomo Sand

Groundbreaking new work from the controversial author of The Invention of the Jewish People

44 posts
The Invention of the White Race

by Theodore W. Allen

Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America

7 posts

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
Island Stories

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

by Avi Shlaim
Acclaimed reflections on the causes and consequences of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
27 posts

The Journey to Tahrir

Edited by Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing

Leading analysts of Egypt on repression, dissent and the dramatic revolution

9 posts
The Judge and the Historian

by Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg draws on his work on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century witchcraft trials to dissect the weaknesses and contradictions of Italy's case against Adriano Sofri, figurehead of the Italian Left, demonstrating the importance of intellectual rigor and passion against political opportunism and dishonesty at the end of the twentieth-century.
Kashmir: The Case for Freedom

by Tariq Ali, Hilal Bhatt, et al.
Leading international voices condemn the brutalities of the Kashmir occupation.
16 posts
La Lucha

by Jon Sack

A front-line human rights defender fighting murderous impunity in the Mexican borderlands

13 posts

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