Interpretations of Trumpism – distinct, of course, from Trump himself – tend to oscillate between two pairs of opposites: ...

Though reliable dating gossip is hard to come by in a town where no-one can agree on anything, it appears that Sarah was ...

The goal is to change politics forever. When we have a government abetting genocide and waging war on its own citizens, and a far right gearing up to enter Downing Street, we can’t deny the urgency.

The number of people who have signed up for Britain’s new left-wing party has surpassed 650,000: a figure that dwarfs the membership of every other outfit in Westminster. Preparations are underway for ...

Shame, Salman Rushdie’s new novel, is written from a very different perspective from that of the earlier Midnight’s Children. The latter novel was a book written about India by an Indian; the white ...

The Consumerization of Space Airports constitute another kind of urban, or perhaps post-urban space. Increasingly indistinguishable from shopping malls, the departure lounges are no doubt intended to ...

Nearly two hundred years ago, Goethe announced the imminence of a world literature. Here Franco Moretti offers a set of hypotheses for tracking the birth and fate of the novel in the peripheries of ...

“It is a new Society that we are working to realise, not a Cleaning up of our present tyrannical muddle into an improved, smoothly-working form of that same “order”, a mass of dull and useless people ...

The Flux of Notion and Interconnection Why is it then that Engels was so convinced that the distinctive feature of historical materialism was its application of the dialectic when his demonstration of ...

The English working class is one of the enigmas of modern history. Its development as a class is divided into two great phases, and there appears at first sight to be hardly any connection between ...

II We are concerned here with the much-debated ‘alienation effect’ of Bertolt Brecht. He defines this effect as follows: ‘A representation that alienates is one which allows us to recognize its ...