Timothy Brennan's At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now by MICHAEL MALOUF: "Written in the jargon-free prose that characterizes the Convergences series (and its editor, Edward Said), Brennan's provocative argument that contemporary cultural studies has been complicit with the ethics of global capitalism is one that cannot be ignored by anyone interested in the future of the academic left and cultural studies."

Mike Davis's Ecology of Fear by PAUL MURPHY: "Just when everyone outside of the Wall Street Journal's sumptuous offices and the U.S. Government's dilapidated ones realizes that global warming (the vagueness of "climate change" is probably more accurate) is for real, the author of City of Quartz, that White Album of Cultural Studies, incarnates the noblest traditions of the left with a beautifully written, elegantly reasoned volume which proves that the situation is far, far worse than we had suspected."

Michael Denning's The Cultural Front by DEREK NYSTROM: "In this exhaustive reconstruction of the cultural formations that accompanied what he terms "the age of the CIO," Michael Denning offers a daring, revisionist account of the le gacy of the Popular Front and the 1930s...."

Staughton Lynd's Living Inside Our Hope by PAUL MURPHY: "Many things seem impossible to the left in 1998. We have grown timid, 'pragmatic' in our demands. Staughton Lynd asks that we speak at the top of our lungs once again-not simply for our own spirit ual hygiene, but because his lifelong study of working class history has convinced him that IT WORKS...."