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The Invention of the Jewish People

by Shlomo Sand

The bestselling study of Jewish history

41 posts
Social Class in Europe

by Cédric Hugrée, Etienne Pénissat, et al.

Mapping the class divisions that run throughout Europe

1 post
The Metamorphoses of Kinship

A masterwork of the anthropology of kinship by the heir to Levi-Strauss.

6 posts
Class, Race, and Marxism

by David R. Roediger

Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationship

28 posts

The Authoritarian Personality

by Theodor Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, et al.

Hugely influential study of the psychology of authoritarianism

17 posts
New Dark Age

by James Bridle

How the Information Age makes the world more incomprehensible

22 posts
The Burning Forest: India’s War Against the Maoists

by Nandini Sundar

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

4 posts
Radical Happiness

by Lynne Segal

A passionate call to rediscover the political and emotional joy that emerges when we share our lives

12 posts

City of Segregation

by Andrea Gibbons

A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los Angeles

4 posts
Claude Lévi-Strauss: A Critical Study of His Thought

by Maurice Godelier

One of the world’s leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropology
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

by Mike Davis

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.’s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiracies

23 posts
Out of the Wreckage

by George Monbiot

What does the good life—and the good society—look like in the twenty-first century?

8 posts

The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love

by Andy Merrifield

A radical manifesto about doing what you love

10 posts
Radical Technologies

by Adam Greenfield

A field manual to the technologies that are changing our lives

14 posts
Hara Hotel

by Teresa Thornhill

A first-hand account of a Greek refugee camp—and the stories of the refugees staying there

7 posts
Deport, Deprive, Extradite

by Nisha Kapoor

The extradition of terror suspects reveals the worst features of the security state

11 posts

Work

by Andrea Komlosy

Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout history

9 posts
The New Spirit of Capitalism

by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello

New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalism

14 posts
Violent Borders

by Reece Jones

A major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are formed and policed

46 posts
Fanaticism

by Alberto Toscano

A genealogy of fanaticism—unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of Civilizations

23 posts

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