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When Xiao Hai turned fifteen, his family paid a vocational-school teacher 1,200 yuan to find him a factory job in Shenzhen. So began fifteen years spent moving between the garment mills and electronics factories of China’s fast-growing southern cities.Adrift in the South is a memoir of life as a migrant labourer in the twenty-first century, […] |
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Kill Billionaire: The Riotous Revenge Caper You’ve Been Waiting for Kill Billionaire is the best sort of political thriller: gripping, revenge fueled and unapologetically radical in its politics, discussing climate change and the elite. When her home is destroyed in wildfires, fourteen-year-old Australian outback genius Kayla Connolly decides to hunt down the culprits of climate […] |
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JACK PARLETT IN CONVERSATION WITH AMELIA ABRAHAM Flamboyance is Jack Parlett’s follow up to his acclaimed Fire Island (A Housmans bestseller of 2022). This new book has all the qualities one has come to expect of Jack’s work; big hearted and erudite in equal measure.Flamboyance ignites every aspect of our lives, from art and entertainment […]
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JACK PARLETT IN CONVERSATION WITH PETER SCALPELLOFlamboyance is Jack Parlett’s follow up to his acclaimed Fire Island (A Housmans bestseller of 2022). This new book has all the qualities one has come to expect of Jack’s work; big hearted and erudite in equal measure.Flamboyance ignites every aspect of our lives, from art and entertainment to […] |
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Kate Bayliss in conversation with Adrienne Buller PRIVATISING HUMANITY is a powerful exposé of how finance turns our basic human needs into assets.We have entered a new era of turbo-charged financial extraction. Having amassed huge reserves, global finance capital is seeking out fresh areas for profitable investments. Virtually all aspects of our lives are now […] |
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The Word in Others’ Mouths: Susan Rudy and Shelly Harder in conversation Susan Rudy and Shelly Harder come together to launch new chapbooks from Ottawa’s above/ground press. Rudy’s Consequences gathers a thousand sentences — from feminist theorists, queer poets, songs, private conversations, and decades of notebooks — stripping them of hierarchy and ownership, letting Brossard and […] |
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Aristotle, Hegel and Marx: Michael Lazarus In Conversation with Bruno Leipold Karl Marx gave us not just a critique of the political economy of capital but a way of confronting the impoverished ethical quality of life we face under capitalism. Interpreting Marx anew as an ethical thinker, Absolute Ethical Life provides crucial resources for understanding […] |
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The question is no longer if we should legalise drugs. It’s: what happens when we do?The future of drugs is here, and it’s dangerously unequal. Over the last decade, the status quo around drugs has collapsed. Drugs once sold as safe cures have been revealed as ineffective or dangerous, while substances criminalised for generations are […]
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The question is no longer if we should legalise drugs. It’s: what happens when we do?The future of drugs is here, and it’s dangerously unequal. Over the last decade, the status quo around drugs has collapsed. Drugs once sold as safe cures have been revealed as ineffective or dangerous, while substances criminalised for generations are […] |
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A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. This is a work of breathtaking scholarship. We are delighted to welcome its author, Benjamin A Saltzman, to Housmans for its UK launch. He will be in conversation with Revd Dr Ayla Lepine. Why […] |
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Thursday, June 18th, 7pm onwards, MayDay Rooms  MayDay Rooms is pleased to launch its new Anarcho-Punk archive — a growing collection tracing how anarcho-punk helped reignite anarchism in Britain during the 1980s and 1990s. At a moment when anarchism appeared politically marginal and disconnected from everyday life, anarcho-punk transformed it into a lived, participatory […]
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Join MayDay Rooms and Rebel Tours for a critical exploration of London’s financial district, examining the banks and insurance companies complicit in financing weapons, fossil fuels, border violence and genocide, while reflecting on the long histories of resistance to corporate power in the City. The event will take place in two parts: an afternoon workshop […]
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COME AND CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF A BOLD NEW POETRY MAGAZINE AT HOUSMANS. FEATURING LUKE ROBERTS, HARRIET ROSE AND OTHERS. This is a free event, please book your tickets below. Feel free to BYOB. 🙂 Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on […] |
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Research is Poetry: Knots presents our first night of Research is Poetry, hosted at Pelican House on June 26th from 6-9 pm. This will be fundraising for our Co-op registering fee, so we are able to do more noise nights, develop long form productions, and host community workshops, from an art-workers led perspective. If you’re […] 
Join us for an intergenerational queer conversation weaving together archival memory, nightlife history, and collective futures. This evening brings together three icons who shaped London’s lesbian and queer scenes from the 1980s and 90s to today: Katherine Griffiths, DJ and researcher who participated in grassroots lesbian nightlife in London through the 80s and 90s; Yvonne […]
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Join us for an evening of poetry to mark the launch of Ellen Renton’s new pamphlet. You and Yours:Swinging across timelines and from the mundane to the surreal, You and Yours is a study in grief: how it exists beyond seismic losses in the stories we inherit, in shifting friendships, and in uncertain landscapes. These […] |
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Join us for a conversation between two of the most exciting theorists of the digital realm, Dominic Pettman and Alfie Bown We are delighted to welcome our friends Everyday Analysis back to Housmans for what promises to be another stimulating reflection on the agonies and aporias of contemporary culture. This time we have Dominic Pettman […] |
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