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Cultural & Literary Theory

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
What Comes after Farce?

by Hal Foster

Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump

1 post
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

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

14 posts
The Last Resistance

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

29 posts
The Myths of Liberal Zionism

by Yitzhak Laor

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

12 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

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