Judgements of the ‘interesting’ dominate critical assessments of contemporary art, but what is the logical structure of these ...
Drawings by Cy Twombly, viewed from the sun-scorched clifftops of Casa Malaparte. The artist’s flight from the mid-century ...
New Left Review analyses world politics, the global economy, state powers and protest movements; contemporary social theory, history, philosophy and culture.
The classicist Joseph Bryant explains the importance of Elvin’s newly discovered 2007 Preface to the PRC edition of Pattern of the Chinese Past, setting out the social-historical ontology that informs ...
A serious fall of about 40 feet while leading an ice-climb left Mark with a permanent scar on his head. His judo training in falling probably saved his life on this occasion, but he gave up the sport ...
The situation of women is different from that of any other social group. This is because they are not one of a number of isolable units, but half a totality: the human species. Women are essential and ...
Sven Beckert has produced a fascinating and wide-ranging history of cotton, from its early appearance in household production in Asia thousands of years ago, via its modest debut in local exchanges, ...