The Paris Commune is known for many things, but typography isn’t one of them. Despite the many posters, tracts, and the extensive archive of a daily newspaper that remain, these printed documents do ...

Sebastian Smee’s Paris in Ruins is an addictively good read, weaving as it does the lives of several important Impressionist painters into the traumatic and bloody events of 1870-71 in France: the ...

Kristin Ross’s The Commune Form traces a political tradition—based on reimagining class relations—that stretches from the 1871 uprising to the modern-day struggles of ZAD. Wherever you go in this life ...

1. The 28th of May, 1871, marks the end of an episode that shook European society and the whole world—the Commune of Paris. Since then, humanity has been shaken by so much more telling blows and ...