Hezbollah ceases its attacks on Israel and withdraws its fighters to north of the Litani River. Any Hezbollah military bases ...

The aesthetic importance of 1940s and 50s American cinema was a point of principle for the film theorists of the French New Wave. Beyond the great directors—Ford, Hawks, Hitchcock, Ray—the studio ...

It is widely recognized that economic policy in the advanced capitalist countries shifted profoundly in the 1980s. Employment levels were abandoned to market processes, government deficits would be ...

In contradiction with narrative stands metaphor, which is a kind of denarrativization, and within the novel as a form there is always a tension—and a dilemma for the novelist—between poetic perception ...

'Nowadays, national literature doesn’t mean much: the age of world literature is beginning, and everybody should contribute to hasten its advent.’ This was Goethe, of course, talking to Eckermann in ...

Once the cultural and political beacon of the Arab world, Cairo is now close to becoming the region’s social sump. The population of this megalopolis has swollen to an estimated 17 million, more than ...

One of T.J. Clark’s objectives in The Painting of Modern Life is to make us ‘unlearn our present ease with Impressionism’, and in this he succeeds magnificently.footnote ＊ By raising the issue of the ...

Donald Tusk’s Poland.

Icoined the term ‘antisystemic movement’ in the 1970s in order to have a formulation that would group together what had, historically and analytically, been two distinct and in many ways rival kinds ...

Judith Butler’s essay is welcome on several counts.footnote 1 It returns us to deep and important questions in social theory that have gone undiscussed for some time. And it links a reflection on such ...

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, ...

Few today can doubt the centrality of the division in American society that goes by the name of race. The police violence to which black people in the us are routinely subjected has become more widely ...