Review of Hayek’s Bastards in The Irish Times

“…shows remarkable thoroughness in terms of research… The results are breathtaking but also terrifying.” —John Foster, The Battleground

“A bravura performance of intellectual inquiry.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Dazzling… Slobodian marshals impressive archival research from within the neoliberal think tank world.” —UnHerd

Of Human Born reviewed in Women’s Studies Quarterly 53

“Bracingly original… Hayek’s Bastards demonstrates how a history of ideas can be riveting.” —The New York Times

“Indispensable… Entertaining.” —The Washington Post

Counterrevolution reviewed in The Journal of European Economic History

“…Small establishes the organic line as a paradigm that ripples beyond and across art history.” —The Brooklyn Rail

“Great fun… Though an early modernist by training, Koering has admirable range.” —Apollo Magazine

“The Organic Line… has the ambition and potential to become a classic.” —CAA.Reviews

Hayek’s Bastards reviewed in The Climate Laundry

“Excellent… fascinating.” —Quaerendo

Hayek’s Bastards a New Statesman book to read in 2025 pick

“Koering recovers rich traces of a fundamental human quest: the effort to make contact with the divine.” —London Review of Books

Hayek’s Bastards named in Publishers Weekly Spring 2025 Nonfiction Preview

Francisco de Goya and the Art of Critique reviewed in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies

“For Doganova, discounting provides a key means to grasp futures in the present.” Discounting the Future reviewed in Economy & Society

“Explodes certain categories in art and art history, including representation itself and aesthetic experience.” Iconophages reviewed in ArtReview

“A rich historical account of how the American state came to simultaneously enact extravagance and austerity” Counterrevolution reviewed in JACOBIN

“An important study” Discounting the Future reviewed in Paradigm Explorer

“A wide-ranging exploration of financial accounting” Discounting the Future reviewed in The Boston Review

“Delightful…a fascinating Western history of eating images…an excellent feast for the senses.” Iconophages reviewed in Mutual Art

“ Screening Fears has the air of being a contemporary classic.” Screening Fears reviewed in Cinéma & Cie

“A wonderful and enlightening read.” The Everyday Life of Memorials reviewed in Oxford Art Journal

“A compelling case for the contingency of responses to plagues and pandemics…fruitful and generative" Preexisting Conditions reviewed in H-Net

“Casetti speaks of a multiverse that allows for the co-presence of different worlds”Screening Fears reviewed in Alphaville

“A unique and fascinating consideration of the meaning and power of art, food, and ritual.” Iconophages reviewed in Publishers Weekly

“A vast amount of material that speaks to a shifting early modern worldview of America and Asia.”Amerasia reviewed in Art History

“Counterrevolution provides an exemplary history of ideas and our unhappy present.” —The New Statesman

“Unique… extensive work on the moralization of taxation via the nuclear family.” Counterrevolution reviewed in LA Review of Books

Screening Fears reviewed in Yale Alumni Magazine

Lina Bolzoni reviews Amerasia in Domenica

“A rich collection…Crary’s broad subject is the way human perception is instrumentalized and commodified within the culture of modernity.”Leonardo

“Tomlinson brings a humanist perspective to the biological and evolutionary debates"The Machines of Evolution reviewed in Critical Inquiry

“Screens, for Casetti, are a balm to the shocks and intensities that modernity has visited upon us.” Screening Fears reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail

“A powerful and provocative book” Screening Fears: On Protective Media reviewed in Critical Inquiry

“Essential for our historical moment.” Preexisting Conditions reviewed in Twentieth-Century Literature

“Handsomely produced…offers a detailed enquiry into the transformative power of concise literary narratives.” Civic Storytelling reviewed in TLS

“This excellent book reflects on the success of short forms in 19th century German Literature” Civic Storytelling reviewed in Critical Inquiry

“We Are Our Apps: Visual Revolutions” Hal Foster writes about the work of Jonathan Crary in London Review of Books

“An engaging study…Stavrinaki’s book does us all an inestimable service.”Transfixed by Prehistory reviewed in CAA Reviews

“This important study throws new light on the nineteenth-century European ‘discovery’ of prehistory” 21 Inquiries on Transfixed by Prehistory

“A statement in favour of a history of art that defies a reassuring linear narrative” Flashback, Eclipse reviewed in Historical Materialism

“As necessary as it is fascinating” The Everyday Life of Memorials reviewed in Cuaderno de Notas

“An innovative examination of NASA’s Golden Record as well as theories on how music should be defined”Alien Listening reviewed in Music & Letters

“Edifying” Tricks of the Light reviewed in Publishers Weekly

“A scholarly exploration of fragments and other literary genres distinguished by their brevity…Ingenius” Civic Storytelling reviewed in 4Columns

French edition of Absentees reviewed in Le Monde & Libération

“An interesting chronology on the place of the memorial within modernism.” The Everyday Life of Memorials reviewed in the TLS

“A beautifully written, deeply researched, and ground-breaking book” Flashback Eclipse reviewed in Art History Journal

“Timely… Weber examines historical accounts of plagues written over the last two millennia.” Preexisting Conditions reviewed in Book Beat

“Marks a singular occurrence in recent attempts to grapple with the complicated temporal structure of prehistory” —Journal of Visual Culture

“Goya is the visionary who never despairs” Francisco de Goya and the Art of Critique reviewed in La Vanguardia

“This thoughtful, no-nonsense book would be a useful guide for anyone setting out on such an ambitious expedition.” —Rain Taxi

“A reflective literary and cultural study… rigorous and suggestive” Cheerfulness reviewed in The London Magazine

“An engagingly argued overview of the different ways society has told the tale of plague and pandemic.”—The Letterpress Project

“Chua and Rehding’s tour de force of erudition has laid the groundwork for a profound rethinking of music’s place in our universe."—JAMS

Alien Listening reviewed in The Los Angeles Review of Books

“Witty, surprising, and meticulous… invites its audience into all kinds of improbable corners of culture” Absentees reviewed in Modern Philology

“This book shows how neoliberalism interacts with and within other historical dynamics.” Market Civilizations reviewed in Jacobin

“Flashback, Eclipse stands out from other studies… It embraces art & politics in all of their messy imbrication” —Italian Culture

“The best analytic study of the songwriter’s craft that I have ever read.” Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work reviewed in Popular Music

“Cheerfulness is a tool we can use to cope with the instability all around us, from the state of the economy to the war in Ukraine.” —The Observer

“Hampton’s lively new cultural history of cheerfulness is a convincing argument that modest feelings matter too” —The Atlantic

“You couldn’t wish for a more eloquently contemporary presentation of this radical rethinking” Alien Listening reviewed in The Musical Times

“Hampton’s invigorating book spans more than half a millennium of literary, philosophical & theological examples” Cheerfulness in The Spectator

“In his genial and scholarly guide, Hampton takes us through the evolution of cheerfulness” Cheerfulness reviewed at The Guardian

“Bynum’s latest addition to the study of medieval devotional objects compels us to see holy things anew.” Dissimilar Similitudes in Speculum

“A startlingly original reading of episodes in Italian art of the 1960s.” Flashback, Eclipse reviewed in Texte Zur Kunst

“A complex & significant narrative about the ways in which Italy’s past affected the art of the 1960s.”Flashback, Eclipse reviewed in CAA Reviews

“Bynum’s collection of essays will be of transcultural relevance for today’s scholars.” Dissimilar Similitudes reviewed in HNA Reviews

“Unique and inspiring…one of the few music books that excites me on every page.” Alien Listening reviewed in Wire Magazine

“Bynum remains incomparable” Dissimilar Similitudes reviewed in The Sixteenth Century Journal

“Ambitious, engaging…For scholars of music and science fiction, and perhaps general readers too.” Alien Listening reviewed in Library Journal

“Shows how our disquiet about people who are neither here nor dead shapes the laws of different countries and cultures.” Absentees reviewed in GLT

“Fulfills, and at the same time delicately undoes, the romantic intentions behind the Golden Record,” Alien Listening reviewed in Bookforum.

“How welcome it is to read a book, manifestly about fin-de-siècle Symbolism, whose ambitions are to parse communication itself.” —CAA.Reviews

“Heuer’s thought-provoking book Into the White is a must-read.” Into the White discussed in Art News

“A fascinating study of devotional objects in the late European Middle Ages by a remarkable historian at the top of her game.” The Medieval Review

“The best kind of scholarly book…an extraordinary appraisal of Dylan’s entire oeuvre.” Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work in American Book Review

“With all its case studies it reads like a gripping (trans)historical docudrama” Absentees reviewed in London Review of Books

“A useful contribution to the slowly emerging field of Arctic Humanities.” Into the White reviewed in The Northern Review

“Assembling marks of absence [Heller-Roazen] is delineating the frontiers of biography, autobiography & history itself.” Absentees reviewed in TLS

“A fundamental inquiry into the disposition among bodies, language, and politics.” Absentees reviewed in 4Columns

“Bynum’s work has become legendary among scholars of the Middle Ages” Dissimilar Similitudes reviewed in Religion & the Arts

“A tribute to the author’s four decades of scholarship” Dissimilar Similitudes reviewed in Church Times

“Within the confines of art historical speculation, this book explodes like a hand grenade” Into the White reviewed in Renaissance Quarterly

“A pioneering work.” Into the White reviewed in Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

“Christopher Heuer’s Into the White is a pleasure both to behold and to read.” Into the White reviewed in Sixteenth Century Journal

“This ambitious & original study presents an entirely new interpretation of symbolist art” A Forest of Symbols reviewed in Art History

“Pop offers an expansive conceptual definition of symbolist art,” A Forest of Symbols reviewed in Journal of Art Historiography

“It’s the rare art history text that is equally interesting historically and conceptually,” Gabriel Chazan reviews Into the White

“Clastres presents his sensational findings in the most neutral way possible: to see everything in the Atchei’s way of life” Tourniquet Review

“Original, revisionist interpretations that illuminate avenues for further study” Dissimilar Similitudes reviewed in Foreword Reviews

“Readers interested in literary and visual symbolisms will find much to think through” A Forest of Symbols reviewed in H-France

“Heuer raises the critical relationship between imagery, environment, & capital accumulation that we reckon with still today.”—HNA Review of Books

“Heuer’s interest is how we see the Arctic, how we see it has implications for how we treat it,” Into the White reviewed in Rochester Newscenter

“An altogether meticulous, beguiling, and fascinating book” Bob Dylan’s Poetics reviewed in David Marx: Book Reviews

“This book reflects the complexity of the symbolist movement and its intellectual context.” A Forest of Symbols reviewed in Not Even Past

“A thought-provoking book…required reading for an understanding of our times” A Forest of Symbols reviewed in Sun News

“An extraordinarily rich and ambitious book”No One’s Ways discussed on Syndicate

“A mesmerizing read… A truly interdisciplinary investigation” A Forest of Symbols reviewed in Leonardo

“A strong addition to a growing literature that traces how the neoliberal project laid the foundations for financialization…” —Public Books

“A major contribution,” Amy Knight Powell reviews Into the White in CAA.reviews

“For activism in this domain to work, we need to break up the monolithic conception of investors”Rated Agency reviewed at (PERC) Goldsmiths

“One finds intense pleasure in reading this important page of French history.” 1668 reviewed in Seventeenth Century News

“A remarkable book…worthwhile to those interested in song, literature, and creative invention.” Bob Dylan’s Poetics reviewed in Chicago Life

“An extraordinarily influential book, and deservedly so.” LARB on Undoing the Demos

The Chinese Pleasure Book reviewed in The Journal of Asian Studies

“Michel Feher is one of the most insightful observers of financialized capitalism writing today.” Melinda Cooper reviews Rated Agency in PPE

“A fascinating and innovative study” Perfection’s Therapy reviewed in HNA Review of Books

“Richly allusive and smart…this is a convincing book as well as an exhilarating one” Bob Dylan’s Poetics reviewed in Arkansas Democrat Gazette

“[Written] with a style that turns analysis into a form of suspense” Bob Dylan’s Poetics reviewed in Rolling Stone

“Hampton interprets Dylan in close-to-the-grain poetic ways of composition that have never been done before.” Bob Dylan’s Poetics reviewed in LARB

“[An] original and timely contribution” Rated Agency reviewed in Lateral

“Takes on the crucial task of imagining a politics capable of responding to the dominance of finance.” Rated Agency reviewed in Books & Ideas

“Best account thus far of Dylan’s poetics…an impressive and prescient achievement” Bob Dylan’s Poetics reviewed in Spectrum Culture

“[A] useful interpretation of the present and a plausible vision of the future.” Rated Agency reviewed in The Baffler

“A stimulating and wide-ranging study” Bob Dylan’s Poetics reviewed in Stride Magazine

“An immensely valuable study” 1668: The Year of the Animal in France reviewed in The Journal of Modern History

“Ambitious, cross-disciplinary…fascinating.” The Form of Becoming reviewed in Radical Philosophy

A Forum Discussion of 1668: The Year of the Animal in France by Peter Sahlins in H-France

“may be an enduring contribution to political economy” Rated Agency reviewed in Hyperallergic

“[A]n extraordinarily learned, deeply thoughtful, and thoroughly contemporary response” Perfection’s Therapy reviewed in Critical Inquiry

“This book advances important perspectives on the many facets of absolutism in Early Modern Europe” 1668 reviewed in Historically Speaking

“This book accounts for why so many are fascinated by European visualized wisdom” Perfection’s Therapy reviewed in CAA Reviews

“brilliant and original” Family Values reviewed in the London Review of Books

“an important contribution to theorising the contemporary economy” Portfolio Society reviewed in LSE Review of Books

“…fascinating…[Sahlins’s] analysis of animal-related cultural productions is full of detail.” 1668 reviewed in The TLS

“A ground-breaking work” The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón reviewed in The Latin American Review of Books

“[T]he phenomena that Feher describes and the counterstrategy he outlines are likely to spark intra-left debate.” Rated Agency reviewed in PW

“[F]urther shaping what architecture can mean.” Forensic Architecture reviewed in n+1

“[A] leading voice in socially engaged spatial culture.” Forensic Architecture reviewed in Review 31

“One of the most telling and influential books on neoliberalism” Undoing the Demos reviewed in American Book Review

“…many things to savor in Merback’s book…it erects an intriguing mode of interpretation…” Perfection’s Therapy reviewed in PopMatters

“Cooper’s book will change our conversation. It provides such a detailed and comprehensive argument…” Family Values reviewed in Theory & Event

“…highly speculative, erudite and informed” Perfection’s Therapy reviewed on Leonardo

“…interrogates the contemporary tasks of academic research and production of critical knowledge” Forensic Architecture in Radical Philosophy

“Sahlins’s account is a model of what can be accomplished by cultural history” 1668: The Year of the Animal in France reviewed in NYRB

“…thoroughly commendable…a thought provoking and intelligently written volume” History and Obstinacy reviewed in Radical Philosophy Review

“… a crucial work…This book stands alone as a rare musicological examination of music’s origins” A Million Years of Music reviewed in MAKE

“Sahlins traces the effects of the new Classical naturalist paradigm ” 1668: The Year of the Animal in France reviewed in The LA Review of Books

“…brilliant and richly researched…a book that will reside comfortably on a shelf with other classics” Family Values reviewed in Lateral

“Merback’s stunning book makes the case for the inception of a new genre of imagery in Melencolia I” Perfection’s Therapy reviewed in 3AM Magazine

“…[an] erudite new study of Dürer’s engraving.” Perfection’s Therapy reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement

“may be the most important contribution to musicology in its short history” The Royal Musical Association reviews A Million Years of Music

“A true pleasure to read… a complex and vivid picture of the debates about the animal theme in the 1660s” 1668 reviewed in Francia Recensio

“Every page documents unbelievable work…to counter-investigate state violence.” Forensic Architecture reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail

“An indispensable theoretical companion to the performance practice which is the (re)composition of sensory history.” The Classical Review

“ …its object is both as mesmerizing and as difficult to embrace as a bodiless echo.” The Ancient Phonograph reviewed in Classical Philology

“…[a] masterful new study of capitalism and the American right…” Family Values reviewed in Jacobin

Peter Sahlins’s 1668: The Year of the Animal in France reviewed in Hyperallergic

“The vivacity of its prose and the quickness of its wit cast Portfolio Society among the racers.” A new review in Contemporary Political Theory

“…a (re)reading of Marx that critically analyzes the constitutive role of finance in the social world.” Portfolio Society in Cultural Politics

“Beauty, in this scenario, is not just a privilege, but also a meaningful indicator of humanity.” — The Form of Becoming in BOMB

Eyal Weizman’s Forensic Architecture reviewed in the October issue of Artforum.

“…an outstanding example of the growing trend to engage with questions of political economy.” Portfolio Society reviewed in Theory & Event

Gary Tomlinson’s A Million Years of Music discussed in Frontiers in Neuroscience

“Demonstrates how…those who design the built environment can contribute positively against intimidating forces.”Forensic Architecture in Spacing

“The perspective shift he offers is no less than the image of a planet overrun by human machinations.” Forensic Architecture in New Scientist

“Constructs a rich empirical analysis of how neoliberalism creates economic inequality.” Undoing the Demos reviewed in Foucault Studies

“The problem isn’t images; it’s us.” —The Civil Contract of Photography reviewed in The New Yorker

“Offers inspiring and thought-provoking reading throughout.” Form of Becoming reviewed in The British Society for Literature and Science

“Brilliantly shows how enmeshed we are, as political and economic agents, into the family form.” Family Values reviewed in Dissent Magazine

“In this highly readable publication, the author covers original ground” Portfolio Society in Science & Public Policy

“A call to take seriously the task of understanding our self-understanding.” No One’s Ways reviewed in Los Angeles Review of Books

“Andriopoulos investigates the recurring & polyvalent references to the ghostly and phantasmagoric,” Ghostly Apparitions reviewed in Project MUSE

Ivan Ascher’s Portfolio Society reviewed in Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association

“Plays an invaluable role.” Family Values reviewed in openDemocracy

“Such a well-written book of economic and political theory–no small feat for the genre.” Portfolio Society reviewed in Fila Sophia

“Tomlinson cuts a fascinating path … ” A Million Years of Music reviewed in Notes

“Dismantles the fantasy formatting the vision of liberal democratic triumph” Undoing the Demos reviewed in Critical Inquiry

“ [Scott] offers hope that we, as designers, are not bound to reproducing the status quo.” Outlaw Territories reviewed in Harvard Design Magazine

Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos reviewed in Theory Culture & Society

“…a demonstration of how contemporary neoliberalism legitimizes political behavior” Undoing the Demos reviewed in Cleaver Magazine

Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos reviewed in The Boston Review

“Compelling…[Andriopoulos] finds much to unearth, dust off, and catalog for future use,” Ghostly Apparitions reviewed in Art Bulletin

“In this engaging book… Brown provides a realistic appraisal of what democracy was and might have been.” Undoing the Demos in Society & Space

Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books

“The real ghosts in the new media machine are the spectators themselves,” Ghostly Apparitions reviewed in ArtReview

“A hugely suggestive and important study,” Ghostly Apparitions reviewed in Review 31

“… an insightful and innovative book that defies straightforward classification” Close Up at a Distance reviewed in Society & Space

“Essential reading for activists!” Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Politics reviewed in LSE Review of Books

“Kafka has assembled an excellent cast through which to retell the story of bureaucracy as reality” The Demon of Writing in Reviews in History

“…provocative, original, and a very good read” The Demon of Writing reviewed in The New York Review of Books

“… distinctiveness [of] … proposoal” Nietzsche Circle reviews Inner Touch

Vital Nourishment Reviewed inNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews

“A fundamental study of Riegl” Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review

“The best introduction to Riegl’s thought”Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts reviewed in CAA Reviews

“… there is much to be heard in the silences” Current Musicology reviews Making Noise

“A fascinating, learned, and honest invitation to discussion” Anachronic Renaissance reviewed in CAA Reviews