Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Zobraziť viac
A new history of the letter that changed the history of the Middle East Zobraziť viac
Hailed as a Southeast Asian Gabriel García Márquez for the exuberant beauty of his prose and the darkly comic surrealism of his stories, Eka Kurniawan is the first Indonesian writer to be nominated for a Man Booker International Prize. Here is his... Zobraziť viac
The politics and consolations of creativity as considered by much-loved critic John Berger. For fans of Susan Sontag's "On Photography" and Roland Barthes' "Mythologies". Zobraziť viac
The fact that communism did not prevail does not mean we are still in capitalism. Capitalist relations are undergoing systemic transformation and becoming something that might even be worse. Bringing together analyses from different fields—law,... Zobraziť viac
One of the most acclaimed essayists writing today on the political hysteria plaguing the West Zobraziť viac
A fresh, radical assessment of Keats's odes that meshes the intimate with the critical Zobraziť viac
A relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children.It is winter.January and minus 14°C, white, frosty mist around the parked car, around the spruces, the mailbox on its post, but higher up the sky is blue, clear,... Zobraziť viac
Britain is broken, but how did it become so divided? Zobraziť viac
America's Fatal Leap deconstructs US geopolitics after the end of the Cold War, informed by its author's unsurpassed command of modern history. Paul W. Schroeder, an acclaimed historian of international diplomacy, was a conservative and a natural ... Zobraziť viac
In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Fredric Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a definition of a term which has taken on so many meanings ... Zobraziť viac
A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle aged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controversial modern classic, Will and Testament Zobraziť viac
The giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more... Zobraziť viac
The most influential theory of the origins of women’s oppression in the modern era, in a beautiful new edition... Zobraziť viac
A history of Black imagery that recasts our understanding of visual culture and technology... Zobraziť viac
The age of denial is over, we are told. Yet emissions continue to rise while gimmicks, graft, and green- washing distract the public from the climate violence suffered by the vulnerable. This timely, interdisciplinary contribution to the environmental... Zobraziť viac
How to maintain hope in the face of despair. In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the front line keep going? To answer that question and... Zobraziť viac
In this groundbreaking new work, Nancy Folbre builds on a critique and reformulation of Marxian political economy, drawing on a larger body of scientific research, including neoclassical economics, sociology, psychology, and evolutionary biology, to... Zobraziť viac
THE CLIMATE CRISIS has propelled nuclear energy back into fashion. Its proponents argue we already have the technology of the future and that it only needs perfection and deployment. Nuclear Is Not the Solution demonstrates why this sort of thinking is... Zobraziť viac
How technology and the attention economy has impacted contemporary art. The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance is changing. Installations brim with archival documents. Dances stretch for weeks. Performances last a minute... Zobraziť viac
