Financial Times Best Books of 2022: Economics
“This important book shows that such beliefs and hopes were always naive. Maoist ideas remained alive not just in the communist party and the state but also in the successful businesses created during the era of ‘reform and opening up’”.—Martin Wolf, Financial Times
Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year 2022
“The more you move through this book, the more drawing and writing seem to exist for Kafka on a single and intricate plane, and it begins to change all the usual perspectives.”—Adam Thirlwell, Times Literary Supplement
Named by the New Yorker as a Best Book of 2022
Times Literary Supplement: Books of the Year 2022
“Richard Sieburth’s superb translation of Baudelaire’s Late Fragments (Yale) is that rare book that provides more than it promises.”—Marjorie Perloff, Times Literary Supplement
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