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Cultural & Literary Theory

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

17 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
16 posts
Utopia

by Thomas More

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

15 posts

Inventing the Future

by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams

A major new manifesto for the end of capitalism

41 posts
Rebel Crossings

by Sheila Rowbotham

The transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century

19 posts
Raymond Chandler

by Fredric Jameson
The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel
5 posts
Nightwalking

by Matthew Beaumont

A captivating literary portrait of the writers who explore the city at night, and the people they met

16 posts

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