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What Comes after Farce?

by Hal Foster

Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump

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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
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
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

28 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

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