How poetry and revolution meshed in Red China

An empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, and homes and communities destroyed

The master of literary reportage reflects on the West’s encounters with the non-European

The first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968

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

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

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

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

Why Tibetan monks are setting themselves on fire

“Gripping and profoundly moving ... an astonishing feat of reportage.” – NPR Guide to 2014’s Great Reads

Twenty-first-century revolution in one of the remotest places in the world

A moving literary memoir about a son's quest for the truth behind his father's colonial past