Days and Nights of Love and War

Title: Days and Nights of Love and War
Author: Eduardo Galeano
ISBN: 978-81-89833-70-1
Binding: paperback
Publisher: Aakar books
Number of Pages: 178
Price: Rs 225

Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America’s foremost contemporary writers. In this fascinating journal and eloquent history, Eduardo Galeano movingly records the lives and struggles of the Latin American people, under two decades of unimaginable violence and extreme repression. Alternating between reportage, personal vignettes, interviews, travelougues, and folklore, and richly conveyed with anger, sadness, irony and occasional humor, Galeano pays loving tribute to the courage and determination of those who continued to believe in, and fight for, a more human existence.


Originally published in Cuba, Days and Nights of Love and War won the Casa de las Amèricas prize (1978).


Lannan Foundation awarded the 1999 Cultural Prize for Freedom to Eduardo Galeano, in recognition of those “whose extraordinary and courageous work celebrates the human right to freedom of imagination, inquiry and expression

Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone

Title: Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
Author: Eduardo Galeano
ISBN: 9781846272479
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Portobello
Number of Pages: 391
Price: Rs 599.00

In Mirrors, Galeano smashes aside the narrative of conventional history and arranges the shards into a new pattern, to reveal the past in radically altered form.

From the Garden of Eden to twenty-first century cityscapes, we glimpse fragments in the lives of those who have been overlooked by traditional histories: the artists, the servants, the gods and the visionaries, the black slaves who built the White House, and the women who were bartered for dynastic ends.

Combining unimpeachably vast knowledge with irresistible fireside storytelling skills, Galeano’s world history is completely unique: a ground-breaking, mind-changing mosaic made of lives lived on our sorry, sparkling planet.

About the Author
Eduardo Galeano's works, which have been translated into 28 languages, include Memory of Fire; Soccer in Sun and Shadow; Days and Nights of Love and War; The Book of Embraces; Open Veins; and Voices of Time. Born in Montevideo, he fled in 1973 after the military coup’s leaders imprisoned him, and lived in exile first in Argentina until death threats there forced him onward to Spain, until returning to Uruguay in 1985 upon the collapse of the military dictatorship. He has lived there since, active in journalism, television and politics. He was awarded the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom.

Walter Benjamin's Archive: images, texts and signs

Title: Walter Benjamin's Archive: images, texts and signs
Author: Walter Benjamin
ISBN: 9781844671960
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Verso
Number of Pages: 306
Price: £16.99

The works of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin are a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life, arts and dreams. This beautifully designed book gives an insight into Benjamin's habits of collecting and archiving through some of his most personal documents. From notebooks in which every conceivable space is covered with handwriting, and a heartfelt traveller's series of postcards, to a sequence of Benjamin's own photographs, and lists that include a collection of his son Stefan's early words and sentences, this wonderful collection testifies to Benjamin's complex and kaleidoscopic passion for the ephemera of human life. Illustrated throughout in color and b/w

Archaeologies of future

Title: Archaeologies of future
Author: Frederic Jameson
ISBN: 978 1 84467 538 8
Binding: Paper
Publisher: VFerso
Number of Pages: 480
Price: £14.99

Fredric Jameson is America’s leading Marxist critic. A prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep majestically from Sophocles to science fiction.” — Terry Eagleton

In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson’s most substantial work since Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, investigates the development of this form since Thomas More, and interrogates the functions of utopian thinking in a post-Communist age.

The relationship between utopia and science fiction is explored through the representations of otherness … alien life and alien worlds … and a study of the works of Philip K. Dick, Ursula LeGuin, William Gibson, Brian Aldiss, Kim Stanley Robinson and more. Jameson’s essential essays, including “The Desire Called Utopia,” conclude with an examination of the opposing positions on utopia and an assessment of its political value today.

Archaeologies of the Future is the third volume, after Postmodernism and A Singular Modernity, of Jameson’s project on the Poetics of Social Forms.

Praise for A Singular Modernity
“This is Jameson’s most important and comprehensive account of the theoretical implication and the question of modernity/postmodernity since his path-breaking Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.” — Choice

Praise for Brecht and Method
“There is no better example of a “Marxist scholastic” than Fredric Jameson.” — The Economist

“Perhaps the secret of Jameson’s greatness, like Brecht’s, is that he doesn’t adhere to his method too strictly.” — In These Times

Title: Valences of the dialectic
Author: Frederic Jameson
ISBN: 9781859848777
Binding: Hard bound
Publisher: Verso
Number of Pages: 625
Price: £29.99


A comprehensive analysis of the philosophy of the dialectic by the doyen of cultural criticism

One of the most accomplished literary and cultural critics in the world, Fredric Jameson returns to the philosophy of the dialectic in a grand and nuanced study of the concept and those who have developed it. The question of the dialectic remains at the center of contemporary theoretical debates: Is it Hegelian and idealistic? To what degree is it central to Marxism? Is a materialist dialectic really possible? How damaging are the “poststructuralist” critiques of the dialectic by Deleuze, and Laclau and Mouffe? Valences of the Dialectic addresses these questions, and studies individual thinkers both dialectical and anti-dialectical, from Hegel and Fichte to Heidegger, Sartre, Derrida, Deleuze and Lacan.

“One of the great writers of our time, not just one of the most formidably gifted critics and cultural theorists.” — Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books

Praise for Archaeologies of the Future:

“Jameson’s skill in connecting diverse materials and theories, the suggestiveness of his insights, and his passionate conviction make this an exciting work.” — Times Literary Supplement

Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. He is the author of numerous books, including Archaeologies of the Future, The Modernist Papers, A Singular Modernity; and Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Changing my mind

Title: Changing my mind: Occasional essays
Author: Zadie Smith
ISBN: 9780241142967
Binding: Paper
Publisher: Penguin
Number of Pages: 307
Price:Rs 550

Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary.

Split into four sections—“Reading,” “Being,” “Seeing,” and “Feeling”—Changing My Mind invites readers to witness the world from Zadie Smith’s unique vantage. Smith casts her acute eye over material both personal and cultural, with wonderfully engaging essays—some published here for the first time—on diverse topics including literature, movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family, feminism, Obama, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani.

In her investigations Smith also reveals much of herself. Her literary criticism shares the wealth of her experiences as a reader and exposes the tremendous influence diverse writers—E. M. Forster, Zora Neale Hurston, George Eliot, and others—have had on her writing life and her self-understanding. Smith also speaks directly to writers as a craftsman, offering precious practical lessons on process. Here and throughout, readers will learn of the wide-ranging experiences—in novels, travel, philosophy, politics, and beyond—that have nourished Smith’s rich life of the mind. Her probing analysis offers tremendous food for thought, encouraging readers to attend to the slippery questions of identity, art, love, and vocation that so often go neglected.

Changing My Mind announces Zadie Smith as one of our most important contemporary essayists, a writer with the rare ability to turn the world on its side with both fact and fiction. Changing My Mind is a gift to readers, writers, and all who want to look at life more expansively.