After an early line in lurid depictions of the overindulged bodies of the NEPman and NEPwoman, entrepreneurial harbingers of ...

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

Various explanations have been offered for the weaker than expected Republican performance, in the context of a deeply unpopular President and high inflation. Among the leading hypotheses is the poor ...

It has become a staple of conventional wisdom that global economic power is shifting inexorably towards the East and the South. Many insist that we are on the brink of a world-historic rebalancing ...

'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 ...

What follows is rather like the famous courtroom scene in Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai (1947).footnote 1 In that noir allegory of proletarian virtue in the embrace of ruling-class decadence, ...

Few today can doubt the centrality of the division in American society that goes by the name of race. The police violence to which black people in the us are routinely subjected has become more widely ...

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 ...

Characteristic of today’s zeitgeist is a new cultural divide that has struck the capitalist democracies without warning. Structurally, it has its roots in long-festering discontent with ‘globalization ...

The covid-19 pandemic has plunged the world into the worst economic crisis in the history of capital. Forty million people lost their jobs overnight in the United States; at the nadir, its gdp shrank ...

During this year’s protests against the Eurozone’s austerity measures—in Greece and, on a smaller scale, Ireland, Italy and Spain—two stories have imposed themselves.footnote 1 The predominant, ...

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 ...