Coming of age and political consciousness in turbulent times
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The moving story of a young boy who lost everything: home, hope, even his own identity
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Timely and brilliant new portrait of the singer, campaigner and leading radical
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Haunting, beautifully written and deeply moving memoir of a young Israeli soldier
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Controversial biography of the twentieth-century master of literary reportage
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In 1958, the US director John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a scenario for a film about Sigmund Freud. Huston wanted Sartre to concentrate...
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China's first literary dissident's Kafkaesque journey through the prisons of the Cultural Revolution.
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The first biography to give due weight to the commitment and optimism of this great political thinker
Blistering and timely interrogation of the politics and motives of an infamous ex-leftist.
Comprehensive and eloquent account of Fanon’s personal, intellectual and political life.
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A family history that explores the KGB, the fur trade, Freud and the assassination of Trotsky
A careful investigation comparing Bernard-Henri Lévy’s words with his deeds.
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The existentialist philosopher chronicles his time in the Resistance in the Second World War.
