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Occupy!

Edited by Carla Blumenkranz, Keith Gessen, et al.
The first book to explore the Occupy movement in depth, with reportage and analysis.
30 posts
Cities Under Siege

by Stephen Graham
A powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life.
17 posts
Close to the Edge

by Sujatha Fernandes
"A classic of hip hop writing and a poignant tribute to urban youth."—Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop
15 posts
A Book of Migrations

by Rebecca Solnit
"A brilliant meditation on travel."—The New York Times
9 posts

A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

by Owen Hatherley
A darkly humorous architectural guide to the decrepit new Britain that neoliberalism built.
35 posts
Who Is Rigoberta Menchú?

by Greg Grandin

Leading historian takes on the lies told about Rigoberta Menchú’s bestselling memoir.

4 posts
Comments on the Society of the Spectacle

by Guy Debord

“Guy Debord is a time bomb, and a difficult one to defuse.” —Michael Löwy.

14 posts
Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes)

by Hal Foster
“Design and Crime is cool, measured, and steady, like a Gunsmoke shootout.”—Greil Marcus
1 post

Passwords

by Jean Baudrillard
In the spirit of Gilles Deleuze’s Abécédaire, Passwords offers us twelve entry points into Baudrillard’s thought.
1 post
Postmodern Geographies

by Edward W. Soja
“One of the most challenging and stimulating books ever written.”—David Harvey
4 posts
Race, Nation, Class

by Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein
The modernity of racism and its relationship to contemporary capitalism.
51 posts
The Cultural Front

by Michael Denning
A panoramic history of the culture of Depression-era America and the Popular Front.
2 posts

Night Haunts

by Sukhdev Sandhu

“Some of the greatest insights we have into contemporary London.”—Daily Telegraph

5 posts
Words & Money

by André Schiffrin

A publishing luminary analyzes the crisis of the media and considers the alternatives.

20 posts
A Seventh Man

by John Berger
New edition of this seminal exploration of migrant workers.
23 posts
The Pope Is Not Gay!

by Angelo Quattrocchi

A provocative exploration of Pope Benedict XVI’s stance on homosexuality.

7 posts

America

by Jean Baudrillard
“A sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the post-Marxist left.”—New York Times
5 posts
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

by Marshall Berman
A kaleidoscopic journey into the experience of modernization.
8 posts
Deep Mountain

by Ece Temelkuran
A personal and political journey to the heart of the Turkey-Armenia conflict, by Turkey’s most famous female journalist.
11 posts
The Invention of the Jewish People

by Shlomo Sand

Bestselling new analysis of Jewish history by a leading Israeli historian.

36 posts

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