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

'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 ...

So Corona walks through the front door as a familiar monster. Sequencing its genome (very similar to its well-studied sister sars) was simple enough, yet the most vital bits of information are still ...

when i settle down to write to you, I feel somehow “freer” than usual. The reason, I suppose, is that most of the time I am writing for people whose ambiguities and values I imagine to be rather ...

NLR 3, May–June 2000. Includes articles by Nancy Fraser, Benedict Anderson, Robert Pollin, Georgi Derluguian, David Marquand, Peter Wollen, Malcolm Bull, John Foot, Declan Kiberd, Gopal Balakrishnan ...

It has become a staple of conventional wisdom that global economic power is shifting inexorably towards the East and the South. Many insist that we are on the brink of a world-historic rebalancing ...

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 ...

Among the many lessons of Trump’s return to the White House, a crucial one concerns civil society: a mushy and frustrating, but nevertheless inescapable, concept. Taken up from Hegel’s Philosophy of ...

NLR 147, May–June 2024. Includes articles by Tony Wood, Owen Hatherley, Cédric Durand, Radhika Desai, Rebecca Lossin, Grey Anderson, Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Rashid Khalidi ...

The Project on the City assembles research from an ongoing graduate seminar directed by Rem Koolhaas at the Harvard School of Design; its first two volumes—the Great Leap Forward, an exploration of ...

What follows is rather like the famous courtroom scene in Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai (1947).footnote 1 In that noir allegory of proletarian virtue in the embrace of ruling-class decadence, ...