Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor represents the most concerted outsider challenge to the ruling order of the city since ...

Spain has been rocked by periodic corruption crises ever since the country’s transition to democracy in the 1970s. The PSOE ...

The well-travelled life and consistently lucid, radical thought of global labour’s great comparative ethnographer—and social ...

Over the past half-century, economic growth in Britain has been gradually slowing, becoming more concentrated in the south east and less evenly distributed. Each government, whether Labour or ...

Tom Nairn and Perry Anderson, in their articles recently published in nlr, have identified the third quarter of the 19th century as the period in which ‘corporativism’ gained its fatal grip on the ...

NLR 153, May–June 2025. Includes articles by NLR Editors, Zhang Yongle, Michael Levien, Roberto Schwarz, Alyssa Battistoni, Aaron Benanav and Michael Burawoy ...

Interview with the Brazilian critic and theorist on the literary and political ideas informing his epic play, Queen Lira. A volatile cacophony of voices disputing his country’s path, from Dilma’s ...

Where to locate real utopias, as conceptualized by Wright, in the historical context of capitalist development? A rejoinder to Burawoy, emphasizing production over marketization, Marx over Polanyi, ...

Timothy Bewes on Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia. Are late modern longings for the past always second-rate sentiments, or are they redeemable by irony?