While I was fishing in the dull canal’; but it is also that of ‘the violet hour, the evening hour that strives / Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea’. This range of tone was one of the ...

They have invested too much political capital in this goal of ‘victorious’ peace to walk away now. It is still to early to ...

The world of South and Southeast Asia has always featured prominently in theoretical discussions seeking to open European ideas up to the world, from the importance of India for postcolonial theory to ...

‘Nature poetry’—where the natural world itself is the main focus of interest and not just a background setting, however superbly describedfootnote 2 —was written in Western classical antiquity, as ...

So, I’ll start: my name is Owen Hatherley, and not only was I a teenage Manics fan, I am a Manics fan. Read on: T. J. Clarke, ...

There has been a vicious war of words between Congo’s president Felix Tshisekedi and the Rwandan leader Paul Kagame – ...

These are strange times. Capitalism, crippled by its own contradictions—there are thirty million people out of work in the oecd countries alone—is nonetheless triumphant. From New York to Beijing, via ...

A commanding survey of the world economy from 1950 to the present, from the author of the acclaimed The Boom and the Bubble. Originally published as NLR I/229, this is now a Verso book: For years, the ...

The word ‘genocide’ has not been in existence for very long: it was coined by the jurist Lemkin between the two world wars. The thing is as old as mankind and so far no society has existed whose ...

In many respects, the emergence of neoliberalism since the mid-1970s has enhanced the legibility of capitalist social relationships.footnote 1 New disciplines have been imposed on both workers and ...

A political introduction to the series of articles on What’s Wrong With Capitalism, linking the theoretical arguments to the current political debate in the Labour Party. there are one or two aspects ...

A fifth phase in the evolution of the journal runs approximately from late 1968 to mid 1971 (nos 52–67). A general radicalization, amidst the inter national student and worker upsurges in Western ...