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Revolutionary Yiddishland

A History of Jewish Radicalism

by Sylvie Klingberg, Alain Brossat
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016

Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of the Warsaw ghetto; they were in the vanguard of those resisting Franco and the Nazis. They originated in Yiddishland, a vast expanse of Eastern Europe...
by Jose Saramago
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012

The Lives of Things collects José Saramago’s early experiments with the short story form, attesting to the young novelist’s imaginative power and incomparable skill in elaborating the most extravagant fantasies. Combining bitter satire, outrageous parody and Kafkaesque hallucinations, these stories...
by Valerie Solanas
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016

Classic radical feminist statement from the woman who shot Andy Warhol “Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate...
by Slavoj Zizek
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009

Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis? In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj Žižek...

An American Utopia

Dual Power and the Universal Army

by Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016

Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writers Fredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are—among other things—universal conscription,...

Riot. Strike. Riot

The New Era of Uprisings

by Joshua Clover
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016

Award winning poet Joshua Clover theorises the riot as the form of the coming insurrection Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an “age of riots” as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar...

The Seasons of Trouble

Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War

by Rohini Mohan
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014

For three decades, Sri Lanka’s civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas in a fierce battle that swept up about 300,000 civilians and killed more than 40,000. More than a million had been displaced by the conflict, and...

Modernism in the Streets

A Life and Times in Essays

by Marshall Berman
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017

Essays tracing the intellectual life of a quintessential New York City writer and thinker Marshall Berman was one of the great urbanists and Marxist cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and his brilliant, nearly sui generis book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is a...
by S.S. Prawer
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014

“Very few men,” said Bakunin, “have read as much, and, it may be added, have read as intelligently, as M. Marx.” S. S. Prawer’s highly influential work explores how the world of imaginative literature—poems, novels, plays—infused and shaped Marx’s writings, from his unpublished correspondence,...

Out of the Wreckage

A New Politics for an Age of Crisis

by George Monbiot
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017

A thrilling new route to a better society A toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism has come to dominate our world. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights...

The Viceroys

A Novel

by Federico De Roberto
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016

A lost literary classic, written in 1894, The Viceroys is one of the most acclaimed masterworks of Italian realism. The novel follows three generations of the aristocratic Uzeda family as it struggles to hold on to power in the face of the cataclysmic changes rocking Sicily. As Garibaldi’s triumphs...

Direct Action

Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism

by L.A. Kauffman
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017

A longtime movement insider's powerful account of the origins of today's protest movements and what they can achieve now As Americans take to the streets in record numbers to resist the presidency of Donald Trump, L.A. Kauffman’s timely, trenchant history of protest offers unique insights...

In Defence of the Terror

Liberty or Death in the French Revolution

by Sophie Wahnich
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012

For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the Revolution inflicted upon on its enemies. But recent decades have brought a marked change in sensibility. The Revolution is no longer judged...

The Impostor

BHL in Wonderland

by Jade Lindgaard, Xavier De La Porte
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014

How do we explain what Perry Anderson calls “the bizarre prominence of Bernard-Henri Lévy,” easily the best-known “thinker” under sixty in France? “It would,” he continues, “be difficult to imagine a more extraordinary reversal of national standards of taste and intelligence than the...
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