No serious appraisal of the decade has yet been made. The popular after-images of ‘The Thirties’ (in the main, the handiwork of the contrite and the scornful) can be displaced only by scrupulous ...

The logic of the Treasury.

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, ...

Within the circles influenced by and sympathetic to postmodernism there has of late been discussion as to how long an engagement with traditional criteria of truth and value can be deferred.footnote 1 ...

A man dressed in white with yellow butterflies pinned to his shirt is doing a dramatic reading from Cien años. He has a ...

What is the status of scientific truth-claims? Can they purport to hold good for all time across vastly differing contexts of language, culture, and society? That is to say: is science in the business ...

The title of your novel Do Everything in the Dark (2003) comes from Swift: ‘Do all in the dark (as clean glasses, etc.) to ...

There could be dozens, hundreds of similar projects that work with the grain of proletarian spaces, with their existing users. But since any break with Thatcher-Blair-Cameron-Johnson-Sunak housing ...

New Left Review analyses world politics, the global economy, state powers and protest movements; contemporary social theory, history, philosophy and culture.

Emma Fajgenbaum on Clinton Fernandes, Subimperial Power. Australia’s role as adjutant to British and then American power; ...