NONFICTION / POLITICS
No Politics But Class Politics
WALTER BENN MICHAELS & ADOLPH REED JR.
Adolph Reed Jr. is the towering radical theorist of American democracy of his generation.
–Cornel West
Walter Benn Michaels is cunning, brilliant, acutely suggestive, often exhilarating to read.
–Eric Lott, TRANSITION
NONFICTION / MEMOIR
Do Not Resuscitate
MAURICE SAATCHI
Maurice Saatchi has always been original. His latest book, Do Not Resuscitate, is surreal and insightful. It will certainly make you think.
–John Major
RELIGION / HISTORY
Resistance to Christianity
RAOUL VANEIGEM
Nothing less than a complete historical account of the development of Christianity.
––Alastair J. Hemmens
ART / BIOGRAPHY
Lucas Samaras: A Life
MICHAEL SKAFIDAS
A master of the self-portrait form.
––NEW YORK TIMES
RELIGION / ART
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
HAL FOSTER
One of the most skilfull critics at work today.
––Barry Schwabsky, THE NATION
CURRENT
HIGHLIGHTS
NONFICTION / QUOTATIONS
Only Too Much Is Enough
MICHAEL PEPPIATT
Peppiatt offers a window into the experiences and emotional intelligence of this great artist.
—NEW STATESMAN
NONFICTION / PHILOSOPHY
Treason of the Intellectuals
JULIEN BENDA
Benda’s book is the great twentieth-century defense of intellectual integrity. It has become extraordinarily timely again at a moment when social criticism often routes itself through the particular loyalties of racial, religious, and national identity.
––David Bromwich
PHILOSOPHY / POLITICS
Where Are We Now?
GIORGIO AGAMBEN
Agamben is right that our rulers will use every opportunity to consolidate their power, especially in times of crisis. That coronavirus is being exploited to strengthen mass-surveillance infrastructure is no secret.
––Marco D’Eramo, NEW LEFT REVIEW
POETRY
Ruins
GABRIELE TINTI
The characters Gabriele Tinti draws from the Greek myths, the muses, the slaves, enable ‘the actor’ to inhabit the essential struggle of what it is to be human, like a Noh play, doomed to repetition and the transcendence gained from it, to be human under the burning sun, which both gives life and destroys...
—Marton Csokas
ERIS dialogues
NONFICTION/POLITICS
A Vision for Europe 2020
DAVID ADLER & ROSEMARY BECHLER &
YANIS VAROUFAKIS
A book that gives hope and provides solutions to break the doom loop. A must-read for all citizens who do not want to abandon Europe to the neoliberals and the nationalists.
—Thomas Picketty
NONFICTION/ART THEORY
On Depiction
AVIGDOR ARIKHA
Throughout his whole development I have never ceased to admire the acuteness of his vision and his faultless insight into the art of the past.
—Samuel Beckett
ART
I Declare a Permanent State of Happiness
KENNETH GOLDSMITH