Matthew Beaumont, a Professor of English Literature at University College London, is the author of several books for Verso, including The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City (2020) and How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body (forthcoming, 2024). He is also the author of Lev Shestov: Philosopher of the Sleepless Night (2021). For Verso, he has co-authored The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue (2009) and co-edited Restless Cities (2010).

Part literary criticism, part social history, part polemic, this is a haunting addition to the canon of psychogeography.

Matthew Beaumont, a Professor of English Literature at University College London, is the author of several books for Verso, including The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City (2020) and How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body (forthcoming, 2024). He is also the author of Lev Shestov: Philosopher of the Sleepless Night (2021). For Verso, he has co-authored The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue (2009) and co-edited Restless Cities (2010).

Part literary criticism, part social history, part polemic, this is a haunting addition to the canon of psychogeography.

Matthew Beaumont, a Professor of English Literature at University College London, is the author of several books for Verso, including The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City (2020) and How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body (forthcoming, 2024). He is also the author of Lev Shestov: Philosopher of the Sleepless Night (2021). For Verso, he has co-authored The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue (2009) and co-edited Restless Cities (2010).

Part literary criticism, part social history, part polemic, this is a haunting addition to the canon of psychogeography.