‘How I loved reading Liv Stroemquist’s Fruit of Knowledge. Mostly, this was down to its sheer, punchy brilliance … If her strips are clever, angry, funny and righteous, they’re also informative to an eye-popping degree…
Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and colonialism. He prophesied that those third world…
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike’s deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News’ Female Performer of the Year Award the same year…
A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true ‘churches’, Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. In this influential…
‘The foremost work on the key democratic task: helping people to identify and challenge the sources of their oppression … a transformative text’ George Monbiot, Guardian Arguing that ‘education is freedom’, Paulo Freire’s radical international…
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind … Endlessly fascinating’ Steven Pinker…
