A key question, however, is rarely asked: what does ‘material interest’ mean? On closer inspection the term takes on a ...

Since the composition of the last issue of the journal, nlr has lost the two most gifted political writers to have ignited its pages over the years, Tom Nairn and Mike Davis. Both were magnitudes ...

Doe t’express his loue and friending to you, God willing, shall not lacke: Let us goe in together, And still your fingers on your lippes, I pray. The time is out of ioynt: Oh cursed spight, That ever ...

The subject of our session this evening has been a focus of intellectual debate and political passion for at least six or seven decades now.footnote ＊ It already has a long history, in other words. It ...

to pass from a “way of conflict” to a “way of life” is to pass out of the main line of the socialist intellectual tradition. I don’t mean that Raymond Williams has “broken” with socialism: at many ...

The Western world’s imagination of historical time seems at present to be pulled between auguries of irreversibility and narratives of stubborn repetition—focusing now on impending ecological collapse ...

Edward Said was a longstanding friend and comrade. We first met in 1972, at a seminar in New York. Even in those turbulent times, one of the features that distinguished him from the rest of us was his ...

Cities are secondary, derivative, mimetic places. The future appears first in the countryside. This was the iconoclastic argument made by Rem Koolhaas in his 2020 Guggenheim exhibition, ‘Countryside, ...

When last we heard from Thomas Pynchon, it was the Year of Our Lord 2013. Charismatic neoliberal Barack Obama had recently defeated generic plutocrat Mitt Romney to win a second term. Whistleblower ...

In times like these, the very appearance of an essay like Oliver Eagleton’s offers a glimmer of hope.footnote 1 His critique of my work is both historically conscious and generous towards the often ...

To be french is always to rise to the times when they demand it . . . It is, ultimately, choosing to write history rather than be subjected to it.’ On 9 June 2024, with this grandiose flourish, ...