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The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope and
Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands...
Major Corrections: An Intellectual Biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro
Sebastiano Timpanaro (1923-2000) was one of the most original leftist thinkers of the 20th century. His thought spans a unique range of subjects, from materialism to classical philology, from the...
Swanfall: The Times Children's Book of the Week*
'Swanfall manages to capture the kind of magic of a great winter walk. As Soon as you're finished, you'll want to pull on your wellies and stomp outside in search...
Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex
Sex and art, we're told, are sacred, two spheres that ought to be kept separate from the ravages of the marketplace. Yet both prop up two incredibly lucrative industries, built...
So Very Small: How humans discovered germs, uncovered infectious
In 1665, an infectious disease swept through the British capital and claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people. It would take another two hundred years for the cause...