an old-school realist who has changed because of his experience. He’s gone back and re-examined everything he did, and he’s ...

On the contrary, he has indicated that because the central bank’s quantitative easing policies mean that it is in effect ...

Rather than a lesson in how to beat the right, this seems likely to prove to be a Pyrrhic victory for the centre. Read on: ...

'Nowadays, national literature doesn’t mean much: the age of world literature is beginning, and everybody should contribute to hasten its advent.’ This was Goethe, of course, talking to Eckermann in ...

Among the many lessons of Trump’s return to the White House, a crucial one concerns civil society: a mushy and frustrating, but nevertheless inescapable, concept. Taken up from Hegel’s Philosophy of ...

In one of his notebooks, Chekhov recorded the following anecdote: ‘A man in Monte Carlo goes to the casino, wins a million, returns home, commits suicide.’ The classic form of the short story is ...

NLR 147, May–June 2024. Includes articles by Tony Wood, Owen Hatherley, Cédric Durand, Radhika Desai, Rebecca Lossin, Grey Anderson, Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Rashid Khalidi ...

The basic argument that recurs throughout Rancière’s work is thus one that pits the presumptions of a disruptive equality against the advocates of an orderly, hierarchical inequality. In general terms ...

So Corona walks through the front door as a familiar monster. Sequencing its genome (very similar to its well-studied sister sars) was simple enough, yet the most vital bits of information are still ...

NLR 129, May–June 2021. Includes articles by Göran Therborn, Michael Denning, Javier Moreno Zacarés, Saskia Schäfer, Marcus Verhagen, Erika Balsom, Tony Wood, Perry Anderson, Joy Neumeyer and Nick ...

The heartlands staged a swift recovery. The financial crisis had been expected to trigger a white-collar recession in the City, as when Nigel Lawson’s asset-price bubble burst over yuppie heads in ...