NLR 149, September–October 2024
Fredric Jameson Agon: The Iliad. Drafted as the foundational first chapter of Volume One, the last to be written, of Jameson’s monumental Poetics of Social Forms.A richly rewarding study of the Iliad, located within the ‘immense transition’ from the great imperial cities of the Bronze Age.The logic of agon—a multi-sided struggle—as governing principle of the great poem.
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NLR 145, January–February 2024 - New Left Review
Mar 15, 2024 · NLR 145, January–February 2024. Includes articles by Kohei Saito, Nick Burns, Peter Osborne, Michael Mann, Göran Therborn, Lorna Finlayson, Jiwei Xiao, Terry Eagleton, Jacob Collins and Rob Lucas
NLR 146, March–April 2024 - New Left Review
May 3, 2024 · Richard Beck Bidenism Abroad. Panoramic survey of US foreign policy as Washington attempts to maintain its global hegemony in conditions of faltering growth. Containing China, confronting Russia, driving decarbonization: each of Biden’s stated aims has been beset by insoluble contradictions from the outset, Richard Beck argues, now compounded by Israel’s punitive war on Gaza.
NLR 140/141 • Mar/June 2023 - New Left Review
NLR 140/141, March–June 2023. Includes articles by Alberto Toscano, Zehra Jumabhoy, Ilya Budraitskis, Aaron Benanav, Tim Barker, Grey Anderson, Lily Lynch, Ed McNally, Hito Steyerl and Tom Nairn
NLR 144, November–December 2023 - New Left Review
NLR 144, November–December 2023. Includes articles by Leo Robson, Oliver Eagleton, Francis Mulhern, Serge Halimi, Hito Steyerl, Alexander Zevin, Patricia McManus, Saul Nelson, Loic Wacquant and Cihan Tuğal
NLR 147 • May/June 2024 - New Left Review
Jul 2, 2024 · Cédric Durand Landscapes of Capital. A critical engagement with the work of Brett Christophers, whose books—The New Enclosure, Rentier Capitalism, Our Lives in Their Portfolios and The Price Is Wrong—unfold a novel critique of the ‘rentier stage’ of contemporary capitalism, in the tradition of radical historical geography developed by Lefebvre, Harvey and Davis.
NLR 139, January–February 2023 - New Left Review
Feb 21, 2023 · Bryan Palmer A Hero From Capitalism’s Hell. A tribute to Mike Davis, perhaps the finest revolutionary-socialist writer the US has produced. From boyhood geologizing with his meat-cutter father in the Californian desert to radical organizing in sixties LA, education in Western Marxism and voracious reading in labour history, political economy and urban ecology, the making of a great organic ...
NLR 142, July–August 2023 - New Left Review
NLR 142, July–August 2023. Includes articles by Grey Anderson, Perry Anderson, Eric Hobsbawm, Robin Osborne, Lola Seaton, Anahid Nersessian, Peter Wollen, Ralph Miliband, Raymond Williams, NLR Editors and Nathan Sperber
NLR 138, November–December 2022 - New Left Review
Dec 21, 2022 · NLR 138, November–December 2022. Includes articles by Ekaitz Cancela, Pedro M. Rey-Araújo, Thomas Meaney, Christopher Bickerton, Dylan Riley, Robert Brenner, Michael Cramer, Harriet Friedmann, Susan Watkins, Cédric Durand, Volodymyr Ishchenko, Philip Cunliffe and Caitlín Doherty
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