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John Berger
Permanent Red

In Permanent Red , John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a realism that aims for hope, to transform the world. Surveying the work of historical artists as well as that of near …

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John Berger
The Moment of Cubism

The Essential John Berger

The Moment of Cubismis one of John Berger's most important collections of art criticism. Whether considering Vermeer in his studio, Poussin's poignant meditation on death, or the complexities of Rodin's s…

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Jasper Bernes
The Future of Revolution

Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Reading revolutionary history from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by the light of communist theory, from Marx to C. L. R. Jam…

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Nicholas Beuret
Or Something Worse

The push for net zero has become a new arena for class conflict, where the powerful profit and the rest suffer. Nicholas Beuret's incisive critique and actionable strategies empower us to fight for a trul…

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Robert Bevan
Monumental Lies

How the past is memorialized can have a dangerous influence on the future.Monumental Lies exposes the truths buried at contested heritage sites and demands that we safeguard the material evidence of histo…

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Claire Bishop
Disordered Attention

The reception of art and performance is changing. Smartphones and social media have troubled the old model of individual appreciation and close looking, giving rise to new forms of mediated perception, su…

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Claire Bishop
Disordered Attention

The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance is changing. Installations brim with archival documents. Dances stretch for weeks. Performances last a minute. Exhibitions are spread out over thirty…

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Patrick Blanchfield
Blanchfield, P: Gunpower

A unique and unblinking look at America's past, present, and future relation to guns

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Alex Bollen
Motherdom

When Alex Bollen had her first baby, the fear of being a bad mother made her guilty and anxious. A researcher with twenty years' experience, she went looking for answers. To her surprise the studies she l…

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Alex Bollen
Motherdom

Good Mother myths find mothers at fault whatever they do. Alex Bollen proposes 'motherdom', a new way to live. Motherdomvalues and respects the different ways people raise their children, shifting our foc…

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Michael Braddick
Christopher Hill

In this brilliant work of biography, Michael Braddick charts the life of Christopher Hill, one of the leading historians of his generation. From his abandonment of the respectable, provincial Methodism of…

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Judith Butler
Frames of War

Radical Thinkers

Analyzing the different frames through which we experience war, Butler calls for a reorientation of the Left.

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Callum Cant, Matthew Lee
The Future in our Past

The Future in Our Past tells the remarkable story of Britain's only ever General Strike on its centenary. It is an on-the-ground account of how workers brought the country to a standstill for nine extraor…

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Hazel V. Carby
Racial Fictions

Drawing on a rich tapestry of historical analysis, literary criticism, and cultural theory, Hazel V. Carby interrogates our racial fictions, which have been constructed, maintained, and weaponized across …

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Noam Chomsky, José Mujica, Saúl Alvídrez
Surviving the 21st Century

Two world-renowned figures of contemporary politics come together to discuss timeless topics and debate alternatives for the future: José "Pepe" Mujica, former president of Uruguay and an ex-gue…

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Brett Christophers
The Price is Wrong

RECENT TECHNICAL ADVANCES mean it is typically cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels. Yet, around the world, the transition to green energy is happening too slowly i…

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Andrea Long Chu
Females

"Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."So begins Andrea Long Chu's genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender a…

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Yves Citton,
Mythocracy

Mythocracyexamines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties about fake news, Yves Citton looks at the attention economy, whi…

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Andrew Cockburn
Washington Is Burning

Washington Is Burning reveals the inner workings of Trump's Washington --- a grotesque carnival of corruption. Andrew Cockburn sets fire to US pieties, focusing on the spectacular greed at the heart of th…

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Matthew Cole
Unpaid

How capitalism steals our time and our labour, and how we can fight back.

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