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.
Judgements of the ‘interesting’ dominate critical assessments of contemporary art, but what is the logical structure of these ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Since the collapse of the Soviet empire, new states have been emerging in fast-moving sequence—whether through the secession of formerly ‘autonomous’ territories, or through the reunification of ...
While pleased to be associated with Ellen Meiksins Wood’s position against Alan Carling and ‘Rational Choice’ or ‘Analytical’ Marxism, we believe that Carling’s caricature of Wood’s Marxism and ours ...
The term ‘ethnic cleansing’ has acquired general currency with the violent conflicts between communities in the contemporary Balkans. It is often seen as a hateful yet characteristically modern ...
There was a Soviet joke in circulation some time ago, which gains point with every year that passes—Question: What is the greatest problem facing the President of the United States? Answer: Is it ...
“It is a very difficult country to move, Mr. Hynband, a very difficult country indeed, and one in which there is more disappointment to be looked for than success.” Disraeli, 1881. the last General ...
This background of demobilization helps explain why support for Sinn Féin proved to be so brittle over the past year.