Cultural Studies

An oral history, with the full participation of cast and crew, of one of the most popular sitcoms in television history. Since premiering in 2009,...

Why do we give a damn about strangers? Altruism is unique to the human species. It is also one of the great evolutionary puzzles, and we may be o...

An original idea, unsuspected focal points, picturesque and touching characters, twenty years between war and peace, this is what the pages of this...

THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018Whiteshift tells the most important political story of the 21s...

In this new edition of the anthropological classic Exotic No More, some of today''s most respected anthropologists demonstrate the tremendous contr...

Reading for Life is an anthology of poems and of extracts from prose fiction, related to a series of case-histories of individuals carefully readin...

Miniature books, handwritten or printed books in the smallest format, have fascinated religious people, printers, publishers, collectors, and other...

In this epoch of disastrous neoliberal globalisation, E. San Juan's critique seizes the crisis in neo-colonial Philippines as a point of interventi...

The culture we consume is increasingly delivered to us via various digital on-demand platforms. The last decade has seen platforms like Facebook, A...

What does democracy look like? And when should we cause trouble to pursue it?Troublemakers fuses photography and history to demonstrate how racial ...

In the 1970s, Manhattans west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict nei...

A WIRED 2020 Book of the Year Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Nothing...

Populism, misogyny, rampage murders. Digital media seem to lie at the heart of sinister, intractable social challenges. Curiously, the very societi...

When Muhammad Ali died, many mourned the life of the greatest sportsman the world had ever seen. In Redemption Song, Mike Marqusee argues that Ali ...

Writing well over a thousand years ago, the Celtic saints and their followers who penned them reflected not just the cares and concerns of their ow...

Crossroads! Intersections physical and/or metaphorical demand processes of consideration, determination, decision and commitment. Stasis is no long...

Collectors, Scholars, and Forgers in the Ancient World focuses on the fascination which works of art, texts, and antiquarian objects inspired in Gr...

According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure to achieve and be happy is taking a he...

There is a mental malaise creeping through the collective human mindset. Mass psychosis is becoming normalized. It is time to break free... One ...

What does the name Trump stand for? If branding now rules over the production of value, as the coauthors of Sovereignty, Inc. argue, then Trump ass...

Privacy on the internet is challenged in a wide variety of ways - from large social media companies, whose entire business models are based on priv...

With marriage in decline, divorce on the rise and the demise of the nuclear family, it is clear that the structures of kinship in the modern West a...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Updated with a new afterword by the author 'Douglas Murray fights the goo...

Recent decades have seen a renewed interest in the phenomenon of abstract art, particularly regarding its ability to speak to the political, social...

I have run the gauntlet of many borders in my time, but the border I grew up with at home was far and away the most trying, writes Seamas OCathain,...