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Why the left should reclaim ethics and morality for itself

The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novelRaymond 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 on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler's work that reconstructs both the context in which it was written and the social world or totality it projects. Chandler's invariable setting, Los Angeles, appears both as a microcosm of the United States and a prefiguration of its future: a megalopolis uniquely distributed by an unpromising nature into a variety of distinct neighborhoods and private worlds. But this essentially urban and spatial work seems also to be drawn towards a vacuum, an absence that is nothing other than death. With Chandler, the thriller genre becomes metaphysical.

How working-class socialist women changed the course of American history.

Timely reissue of the classic radical history of race and modernity

The violence and destruction hiding behind the obsession with immunity

Ending the horrors of police violence requires addressing economic inequality.

A narrative account of Jim Crow as people experienced it.

A new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes--the Spanish flu, the Avian flu, and now, Covid-19

Democratizing finance is the means by which we can democratize our economy