Catalogue:
Cultural Studies
The Rushdie Affair and Its Aftermath
Twenty years after the Rushdie fatwa, From Fatwa to Jihad tells, for the first time, the full story of this defining episode and explores its...
The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop
"This one has cult audience written all over it."—Booklist
The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies
Hollywood meets Freakonomics
How North Koreans See Themselves and Why it Matters
"Electrifying... finely argued and brilliantly written." —Christopher Hitchens
The Definitive Drinker’s Dictionary
Here it is—from the Guinness World Records holder for the most synonyms ever recorded, for the word “drunk.”
The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What it Says About the Economic Crisis
“They’re absolutely right... ” —President Barack Obama on the workers at Republic Windows & Doors
A Biography of Hans Fallada
"...a major contribution to our understanding of literature and politices in the tumult of interwar Germany." —Harold James
Meet the New Middle East: Young, Sexy, and Devout
“Muhajababes will disabuse you of your preconceptions of the Middle East forever.”—The Times Literary Supplement
In a hugely enjoyable read with gloriously corrosive prose, M.J. Harper slashes and burns through the whole of accepted academic thought about the...
An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It
“A searing document, one of the most revealing chronicles of the war yet published. It is as though correspondents are talking late into the night,...
James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time was one of the essential books of the sixties, and one of the most galvanizing statements of the American civil...
