28 posts
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A sparkling portrait of a time when women were breaking all the rules about sex, politics and their place in the world
1 post
A front-line human rights defender fighting murderous impunity in the Mexican borderlands
13 posts
Philosopher, film star, father of “post truth”—the real story of Jacques Derrida
9 posts
Bernie Sanders’s political autobiography
33 posts
A lyrical and thought-provoking record of the last year in the life of the Nobel Prize–winning novelist.
10 posts
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...
4 posts
The existentialist philosopher chronicles his time in the Resistance in the Second World War.
“A powerful manifesto for dealing with the march of time.” – Observer
12 posts
Blistering and timely interrogation of the politics and motives of an infamous ex-leftist.
First ever biography of one of the leading revolutionary thinkers of late capitalism.
3 posts
An intensely personal and moving self-portrait of a woman living at the very margins of Indian society, informed by a sense of profound social change.
2 posts
The moving story of a young boy who lost everything: home, hope, even his own identity
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