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The World in a Grain of Sand

by Nivedita Majumdar

Radical universalism vs postcolonial theory
Taking A Long Look

by Vivian Gornick

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one’s self

2 posts
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
The Walker

by Matthew Beaumont

A literary history of walking from Dickens to Žižek

3 posts

The Benjamin Files

by Fredric Jameson

Jameson’s first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin’s work

4 posts
Sexuality in the Field of Vision

by Jacqueline Rose

A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory

13 posts
The Black Romantic Revolution

by Matt Sandler

The prophetic poetry of slavery and its abolition

2 posts
What Comes after Farce?

by Hal Foster

Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump

2 posts

A Woman Called Moses

by Jean-Christophe Attias

What if there was another Moses, very different from the one we know?
Samuel Beckett

by Pascale Casanova

Exploring the enigmas of Beckett’s work

4 posts
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
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

10 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?

34 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

15 posts
The Last Resistance

by Jacqueline Rose
A bravura exploration of politics and writing in dark times
5 posts

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