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Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs

by Kfir Cohen Lustig

A sweeping new theory of world literature through a study of Palestinian and Israeli fiction from the 1940s to the present
Poets of the Chinese Revolution

by Chen Duxiu, Chen Yi, et al.

How poetry and revolution meshed in Red China

2 posts
Bluebeard’s Chamber

by Michael Maar

Germany’s most gifted literary critic on the critical discussion of Nobel Prize laureate Thomas Mann

1 post
In Praise of Disobedience

by Oscar Wilde

Works of Wilde’s annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright

2 posts

Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film

by Giuliana Bruno

An award-winning cultural history of how we experience the world through art, film and architecture

9 posts
C.L.R. James

by Paul Buhle

A new edition of C.L.R. James’s authorized biography

5 posts
Grand Hotel Abyss

by Stuart Jeffries

Who were the Frankfurt School—Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer—and why do they matter today?

31 posts
Literature of Revolution

by Norman Geras

Essential essays on key Marxist writers from a leading political thinker

1 post

The Two Lolitas

by Michael Maar

A leading German scholar reveals his astonishing discovery about Nabokov’s influential novel

1 post
The Ancients and the Postmoderns

by Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to The Wire

13 posts
The Last Resistance

by Jacqueline Rose
A bravura exploration of politics and writing in dark times
4 posts
Direct Action

by L.A. Kauffman

A longtime movement insider's powerful account of the origins of today's protest movements and what they can achieve now

23 posts

The Myths of Liberal Zionism

by Yitzhak Laor

One of Israel’s most controversial writers demystifies the “peace camp” liberals

11 posts
Simple Forms

by André Jolles

A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first time

1 post
A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People

by Christopher Hill
Preacher, soldier, rebel: Who was the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, one of the most influential books ever written?
6 posts
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

by Sigmund Freud

The first edition of this classic work from 1905 shows a radically different psychoanalysis

5 posts

The Debate on Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital

Edited by Vivek Chibber and Rosie Warren

Leading thinkers’ critiques of award-winning Postcolonial Theory, as well as the author’s responses and reformulations

2 posts
Darkwater

by W.E.B. Du Bois

Essential reading for students of African-American history

18 posts
Utopia

by Thomas More

Five-hundred-year anniversary edition of More’s Utopia, with writing from major science fiction writers

17 posts
Inventing the Future

by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams

A major new manifesto for the end of capitalism

45 posts

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