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Marx’s Literary Style

by Ludovico Silva

A true understanding of Marx’s work requires a careful study of his literary choices

7 posts
Different Speeds, Same Furies: Powell, Proust and other Literary Forms

by Perry Anderson

Powell vs Proust

1 post
The Tomb of Oedipus

by William Marx

Nearly Everything We Think We Know about Greek Tragedy Is Wrong. This Is Why.

4 posts
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How we Became Postmodern

by Stuart Jeffries

A radical new history of a dangerous idea

9 posts

Mimesis

by Valery Podoroga

Groundbreaking work of philosophy and Russian Literary criticism

1 post
Raymond Chandler

by Fredric Jameson

The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel

8 posts
Taking A Long Look

by Vivian Gornick

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

5 posts
The Benjamin Files

by Fredric Jameson

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

8 posts

The Anthropocene Unconscious

by Mark Bould

How climate anxiety permeates our culture

4 posts
Space Forces

by Fred Scharmen

The radical history of space exploration from the Russian Cosmists to Elon Musk

11 posts
The Walker

by Matthew Beaumont

From Dickensian London to today’s megacities—what urban walking tells us about modern life

2 posts
Everything and Less

by Mark McGurl

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

What Has Happened to Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism?

5 posts

The World in a Grain of Sand

by Nivedita Majumdar

Radical universalism vs postcolonial theory

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

3 posts
Sexuality in the Field of Vision

by Jacqueline Rose

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

10 posts
The Black Romantic Revolution

by Matt Sandler

The prophetic poetry of slavery and its abolition

4 posts

What Comes after Farce?

by Hal Foster

Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump

3 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

3 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

1 post

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