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  • Victor Serge

    Victor Serge

    Victor Serge (1889-1947) is best known as a novelist – with two of his works recently republished...

  • Richard Greeman

    Richard Greeman taught French at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut, USA....

  • Victor Serge, The Unconquered

    William Giraldi for The Baffler

    Some writers are destined to have two deaths—the first in life, and the second in memory. The lucky ones can be resurrected from that second death by cultural circumstance and the aid of overseeing angels, irked by injustice, believing these Lazaruses should be helped from their tombs. In 2004, Susan Sontag opened her essay “Unextinguished” with this query, much to the present case: “How to explain the obscurity of one of the most compelling of twentieth-century ethical and literary heroes, Victor Serge?”



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  • The Russian Revolution at 100

    In commemoration of the 100 year anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Haymarket Books has compiled a list of essential books for those interested in learning the lessons of the first successful workers' revolution.

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  • Insurrection as Art: the Legacy of Blanqui

    The recently released Communist Insurgent tells the life story of French revolutionary Louis-Auguste Blanqui, and with it the history of a period of extraordinary social and political upheaval. Haymarket Books interviewed the author, Doug Enaa Greene, to understand the relevance of an often maligned or neglected figure. We publish this interview to mark the anniversary of Blanqui's death on 1 January 1881.

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  • Big Books, Big Ideas

    Make the most of Haymarket's sitewide 30% Off sale by stocking up on our biggest books! Take a deep dive into leftist analysis, history, theory, and fiction with these long reads.

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