Becoming a reviewer
If you would like to write a review please send a request with the following information to the Editor, Eric-John Russell (reviews@marxandphilosophy.org.uk):
- Your name, email, postal address, and telephone number (often required by book shippers)
- A brief account of your position and qualifications and areas of expertise
- Book(s) that you would like to review, with alternatives if possible. These may be drawn from the list of recent books for review (below), but suggestions are also welcome of other recent books that you would like to review or that we should review (include publication details if possible). We do not normally review books that are more than two years old.
Guidelines for reviewers
Reviews should adhere to the following instructions about content, layout and style:
Some recent books for review
- Theodor W Adorno
Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism
Translated by Wieland Hoban, Polity, Cambridge , UK and Medford, MA, 2020. 100pp. $12.95 pb
ISBN 9781509541454 - Michel Aglietta
The Reform of Europe: A Political Guide to the Future
Verso Books, London and New York, 2019. 280pp. £16.99 hb
ISBN 9781786632548 - Attila Antal
Rise of Hungarian Populism: State Autocracy and the Orban Regime
Emerald, Bingley, 2019. 184pp. £40 pb
ISBN 9781838677541 - Francesca Antonini, Aaron Bernstein, Lorenzo Fusaro, and Robert Jackson (eds)
Revisiting Gramsci's Notebooks
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 522pp. €170.00 / $204.00 hb
ISBN 9789004337039 - Ashley J. Bohrer
Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism
Transcript, Bielefeld, 2019. 279pp. €29.99 hb
ISBN 9783837641608 - Tom Bunyard
Debord, Time and Spectacle: Hegelian Marxism and Situationist Theory
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2020. 430pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781608460793 - Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts (eds)
World in Crisis: A Global Analysis of Marx's Law of Profitability
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 350pp. $22.95 pb
ISBN 9781608461813 - Fidel Castro, José Bell Lara, Tania Caram, and Delia Luisa López
Fidel in the Cuban Socialist Revolution: Understanding the Cuban Revolution (1959-1961)
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 329pp. £198 hb
ISBN 9789004415713 - François Chesnais
Finance Capital Today Corporations and Banks in the Lasting Global Slump
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 328pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468270 - Asa K Cusack
Venezuela, Alba, and the Limits of Postneoliberal Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Springer, New York, 2018. 218pp. $84.99 hb
ISBN 9781349950027 - Raju J Das
Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World
Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 694pp. $50 pb
ISBN 9781608469291 - Hal Draper
Berkeley: The Student Revolt
Haymarket books, Chicago, 2020. 280pp. $22 pb
ISBN 9781642591255 - Raya Dunayevskaya
Marx's Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence for Our Day: Selected Writings
Edited by Franklin Dmitryev, Brill, Boston, 2018. $174 hb
ISBN 9789004323322 - Adam Fishwick and Heather Connolly (eds)
Austerity and Working-Class Resistance: Survival, Disruption and Creation in Hard Times
Rowman & Littlefield International, London and New York, 2018. 232pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781786603531 - Christian Fuchs
Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory
University of Westminster Press, London, 406pp. £28.99 pb / open access ebook
ISBN 9781912656714 - Christian Fuchs
Marxism: Karl Marx's Fifteen Key Concepts for Cultural and Communication Studies
Routledge, New York, 2019. 296pp. £22.99 pb
ISBN 9780367418779 - James Furner
Marx on Capitalism: The Interaction-Recognition-Antinomy Thesis
Haymarket, Chicago and London, 2019. 522pp. $36 pb
ISBN 9781642590463 - Raymond Geuss
Who Needs a World View?
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2020. 208pp. $35 hb
ISBN 9780674245938 - Hermann Levin Goldschmidt
Contradiction Set Free
Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2020. 168pp. £91 hb
ISBN 9781350079816 - Shaibal Gupta, Marcello Musto, and Babak Amini (eds)
Karl Marx's Life, Ideas, and Influences: A Critical Examination on the Bicentenary
Palgrave Macmillan, London and New York, 2019. 378pp. $119.99 hb
ISBN 9783030248147 - Simon Hannah
A Party with Socialists in It: A History of the Labour Left
Pluto Press, London, 2018. 288pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9780745337470 - Nigel Harris
Selected Essays of Nigel Harris: From National Liberation to Globalisation
Ahmed Shawki, Haymarket, Chicago, 2018. 522pp. £31.99 pb
ISBN 9781608460106 - Chris Hedges
America: The Farewell Tour
Simon & Schuster, New York, 2018. 388pp. £27 hb
ISBN 9781501152672 - Henry Heller
The French Revolution and Historical Materialism: Selected Essays
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2018. 268pp. $28 / £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608469956 - Mark Jay and Philip Conklin
A People's History of Detroit
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2020. 320pp. $26.95 pb
ISBN 9781478009351 - Tarik Kochi
Global Justice and Social Conflict: A Critical Theory of International Law
Routledge, London, 2020. 250pp. £29.99 pb
ISBN 9780367406813 - Richard Lachmann
First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers
Verso, London and New York, 2020. 477pp. £25 hb
ISBN 9781788734073 - Costas Lapavitsas
Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2018. 336pp. £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608468300 - Domenico Losurdo
Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet
Translated by Gregor Benton, Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2019. 1054pp. €373.00 / $448.00 hb
ISBN 9789004270954 - Iain Mackenzie
Resistance and the Politics of Truth: Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou
Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2018. 146pp. €29.99 pb
ISBN 9783837639070 - John McDonnell (ed.)
Economics for the Many
Verso, London, 2018. 227pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9781788732239 - Brendan McGeever
Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, 2019. 258pp. £75 hb
ISBN 9781107195998 - David McNally
Blood and Money: War, Slavery, and the State
Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2020. 320pp. $20 pb
ISBN 9781642591330 - Lola Miesseroff
Voyage En Outre-Gauche: Paroles De Francs-Tireurs Des Années 68
Libertalia, Paris, 2018. 280pp. €10,00 pb
ISBN 9782377290246 - Jeremiah Morelock (ed.)
Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism
University of Westminster Press, London, 2018. 298pp. £22.99 pb
ISBN 9781912656219 - David Morgan (ed.)
The Labour Party in Historical Perspective
Socialist History Society, London, 2018. 110pp. £6 pb
ISBN 9780993010477 - Brian Morris
Kropotkin: The Politics of Community
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2018. 320pp. $24.95 pb
ISBN 9781629635057 - Marcello Musto and Patrick Camiller
The Last Years of Karl Marx, 1881-1883: An Intellectual Biography
Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2020. 208pp. $22 pb
ISBN 9781503612525 - Karma Nabulsi
Invisible History: Prevent and the Persistance of Empire.
Verso, London and New York, 2018. 144pp. £12.99 pb
ISBN 9781786637918 - Oliver Nachtwey
Germany's Hidden Crisis: Social Decline in the Heart of Europe
Verso, London and New York, 2018. 256pp. £16.99 pb
ISBN 9781786636348 - Christopher Norris
Socrates at Verse and Other Philosophical Poems.
Parlor Press, Anderson, SC, 2020. 199pp. £15.99 pb
ISBN 9781643171593 - Leo Panitch and Colin Leys
Searching for Socialism: The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn
Verso Books, London and New York, 2020. 320pp. £14.99 pb
ISBN 9781788738347 - Paul Paolucci
Marx's Experiments and Microscopes: Modes of Production, Religion, and the Method of Successive Abstractions
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 313pp. $192 hb
ISBN 9789004413856 - Lothar Peter
Marx on Campus: A Short History of the Marburg School
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 183pp. $145 hb
ISBN 9789004349414 - Robert Poole
Peterloo: The English Uprising
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019. 480pp. £25 hb
ISBN 9780198783466 - William L Remley
Jean-Paul Sartre's Anarchist Philosophy
Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2018. 272pp. £85 hb
ISBN 9781350048249 - Sheldon Richmond
A Way through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture
Cambridge Scholars Publisher, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2020. 221pp. £61.99 hb
ISBN 9781527549227 - Norman Roessler and Anthony Squiers (eds)
Philosophizing Brecht: Critical Readings on Art, Consciousness, Social Theory and Performance
Brill Rodopi, Leiden and Boston, 2019. 206pp. €94.00 hb
ISBN 9789004404434 - John Sayles
Yellow Earth
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2020. 416pp. $28 hb
ISBN 9781642590210 - Paula L. Schwartz
Today Sardines Are Not for Sale: A Street Protest in Occupied Paris
Oxford University Press, New York, 2020. 256pp. £19.99 pb
ISBN 9780190681548 - Helena Sheehan
Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism
Monthly Review Press, New York, 2019. 384pp. $25 pb
ISBN 9781583677278 - Evan Smith
British Communism and the Politics of Race
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2018. 275pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781608469987 - Steven G Snow
Bourgeois Ideology and Education: Subversion through Pedagogy
Routledge, London, 2018. 138pp. £105 hb
ISBN 9781138721111 - Panagiotis Sotiris
A Philosophy for Communism: Rethinking Althusser
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 558pp. €165.00 / $198.00 hb
ISBN 9789004291355 - Benjanun Sriduangkaew and Joshua Moufawad-Paul
Methods Devour Themselves: A Conversation
Zero Books, Alresford, Hants, 2018. 160pp. £10.99 pb
ISBN 9781785358265 - Dan Swain
None So Fit to Break the Chains: Marx's Ethics of Self-Emancipation
Brill, Boston, 2019. $110 hb
ISBN 9789004410091 - Mike Taber (ed.)
Communist Movement at a Crossroads: Plenums of the Communist Internationals
Haymarket books, Chicago and London, 2019. 796pp. $50 pb
ISBN 9781642590128 - Elinor Taylor
Popular Front Novel in Britain, 1934-1940
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2018. 224pp. $28 / £24.99 pb
ISBN 9781608460465 - Michael Thompson (ed.)
Georg Lukács and the Possibility of Critical Social Ontology
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 459pp. $192 hb
ISBN 9789004357600 - Enzo Traverso
The Jewish Question: History of a Marxist Debate
Haymarket, Chicago, 2019. 264pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781642590548 - Marcelo Vieta
Workers' Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-Liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestión
Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2020. 644pp. €185.00 / $223.00 hb
ISBN 9789004268968 - Voline
The Unknown Revolution: 1917-1921
PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2018. 832pp. $32.95 pb
ISBN 9781629635774 - Victor Wallis
Socialist Practice: Histories and Theories
Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, 2020. 252pp.
ISBN 978-3-030-35065-9 - Colin White
A History of the Global Economy: The Inevitable Accident
Edward Elgar, Northampton, MA, 2018. 512pp.
ISBN 9781788971973 - James D White
Marx and Russia: The Fate of a Doctrine
Bloomsbury, London, 2018. 240pp. £21.99 pb
ISBN 9781474224062 - James D White
Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander Bogdanov.
Haymarket Books, Chicago and London, 2019. 494pp. $28 pb
ISBN 9781642590487
Latest comments