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The Runaways

by Fatima Bhutto

“As compassionate as it is trenchant, this rare fiction is an illuminating guide through the great disorder of our times.” —Pankaj Mishra
The Verso Book of Dissent

Edited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim

From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad

46 posts
Insurgent Empire

by Priyamvada Gopal

How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire

25 posts
Russia without Putin

by Tony Wood

How the West’s obsession with Vladimir Putin prevents it from understanding Russia

9 posts

On Practice and Contradiction

by Mao Zedong

The writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution, introduced by Slavoj Žižek

6 posts
The Rise of Hindu Authoritarianism

by Achin Vanaik
The definitive analysis of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India and the challenges for the radical Left
10 posts
The Art of Cloning

by Pang Laikwan

Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformity

4 posts
The Soviet Century

by Moshe Lewin

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a classic history of the Soviet era, from 1917 to its fall

10 posts

The WikiLeaks Files

by WikiLeaks

What Cablegate tells us about the reach and ambitions of US Empire

18 posts
Annihilation of Caste

by B.R. Ambedkar

The classic analysis of the caste system with an extensive introduction by Arundhati Roy

15 posts
China’s Twentieth Century

by Wang Hui

An examination of the shifts in politics and revolution in China over the last century

11 posts
Tibet on Fire

by Tsering Woeser
Why Tibetan monks are setting themselves on fire
5 posts

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