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The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature

by Franco Moretti

Who - and what - are the Bourgeois?

"The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful...

Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital

by Vivek Chibber

A provocative intellectual assault on the Subalternists' foundational work.

Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought...

Che Wants to See You: The Untold History of Che Guevara

by Ciro Bustos, Anne Wright & Jon Lee Anderson

Riveting memoir of revolution in South America by Che Guevara's Argentine lieutenant

Ciro Bustos was Che Guevara's Argentinian lieutenant, fighting beside El Comandante in Bolivia. Here, for the first time, Bustos...

Soldier Box

by Joe Glenton

A brave, moving account of a soldier who refused to return to Afghanistan

When the War on Terror began, Joe Glenton signed up to serve his nation. He passed through basic training and deployed to Afghanistan...

Distant Reading

by Franco Moretti

The formation of an unorthodox literary critic

How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficient?

In the ten essays collected in this...

The Frontman: Bono (In the Name of Power)

by Harry Browne

Scathing and hilarious takedown of a frontman for the rich and powerfulCelebrity philanthropy comes in many guises, but no single figure better encapsulates its delusions, pretensions and wrongheadedness than...

Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art

by Peter Osborne

A new reading of the philosophy of contemporary art by the author of The Politics of Time

Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. What kind of discourse can help us give it a critical...

Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art

by Jacques Rancière & Zakir Paul

Rancière's magnum opus on the aestheticAisthesis is Jacques Rancière's long-awaited, definitive statement on aesthetics, art and modernity. The book comprises a string of dramatic and evocative locales, each...

The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust

by Noam Chayut & Tal Haran

Haunting, beautifully written and deeply moving memoir of a young Israeli soldier"She took from me the belief that absolute evil exists in this world, and the belief that I was avenging it and fighting against...

Boy 30529: A Memoir

by Felix Weinberg

Searing, frank memoir of childhood in the German concentration camps

"Anyone who survived the exterminations camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp story of the millions ended in death ......

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

by Jonathan Crary

Capitalism's colonization of every hour in the day

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism....

To Sin Against Hope: How America Has Failed Its Immigrants: A Personal History

by Alfredo Gutierrez

A moving life story from a leading voice in America's immigrant rights struggle.Alfredo Gutierrez’s father, a US citizen, was deported to Mexico from his Arizona hometown—the mining town where Alfredo grew...