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A Palestinian Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
An extraordinary memoir of exile and the impossibility of finding home, from the author of In Search of Fatima
“The journey filled me with bitterness and grief. I remember looking down on a nighttime Tel Aviv from the windows of a place taking me back to London and thinking hopelessly, ‘flotsam...
In Praise of Disobedience
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Other Works
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Works of Wilde's annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright.
The Soul of Man Under Socialism draw on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest works in prose -- the year he came into maturity...
Genes, Cells and Brains
The Promethean Promises of the New Biology
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Our fates lie in our genes and not in the stars, said James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. But Watson could not have predicted the scale of the industry now dedicated to this new frontier. Since the launch of the multibillion-dollar Human Genome Project, the biosciences have promised...
Raymond Chandler
The Detections of Totality
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel
Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint...
Playing the Whore
The Work of Sex Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Recent years have seen a panic over “online red-light districts,” which supposedly seduce vulnerable young women into a life of degradation, and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof’s live tweeting of a Cambodian brothel raid. But rarely do these fearful, salacious dispatches come...
by Michele Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Originally published in 1978, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman caused a storm of controversy. Michele Wallace blasted the masculine biases of the black politics that emerged from the sixties. She described how women remained marginalized by the patriarchal culture of Black Power, demonstrating...
by Fidel Castro
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
In response to the American administration’s attempt to isolate Cuba, Fidel Castro delivered a series of speeches designed to radicalize Latin American society. As Latin America experiences more revolutions in Venezuela and Bolivia, and continues to upset America’s plans for neo-liberal imperialism,...
Betraying Big Brother
The Feminist Awakening in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A feminist movement clashing with China’s authoritarian government
On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking...
Philosophy and Revolution
From Kant to Marx
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Throughout the nineteenth century, German philosophy was haunted by the specter of the French Revolution. Kant, Hegel and their followers spent their lives wrestling with its heritage, trying to imagine a specifically German path to modernity: a “revolution without revolution.” Trapped in a politically...
A Singular Modernity
Essay on the Ontology of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this intervention, Fredric Jameson—perhaps the most influential and persuasive theorist of postmodernity—excavates and explores these notions in...
The Hegel Variations
On the Phenomenology of Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Master philosopher and cultural theorist tackles the founder of modern dialectics
In this major new study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel’s foundational text Phenomenology of Spirit.
In contrast to those who see the Phenomenology...
by Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Fredric Jameson takes on the allegorical form
Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers contradictions (which is not the same as solving them!)...
Fire in the Streets
The Long Hot Summer of '67, the Kerner Commission, and Racial Liberalism in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2021
A revisionist history of the urban rebellions of the late 1960s
Between April and September of 1967, Black-led rebellions shook 164 U.S. cities large and small. The Long Hot Summer of '67, preceded by the Watts riots of 1965 and followed by more than 100 insurrections in '68, sparked the administration...
Seattle General Strike
The Forgotten History of America's Greatest General Strike
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2021
A thrilling account of one of the most dramatic chapters in the history of American labor, retold for the strike's 100th anniversary
One hundred years before the dystopian promise of Seattle's wish-fulfillment centers, the city seemed on the precipice of another future entirely. For five days...