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As Boris Johnson consolidates the Tory ascendancy, an analysis by Susan Watkins of the decade of multiple crises—economic, social, regional, national, European—that led to this outcome.

Also in NLR 121

Continuing the series on post-2008 recoveries, begun by David Kotz’s scrutiny of the US economy in NLR 113, R. Taggart Murphy examines the case of Japan, the world pioneer in zero interest rates and quantitative easing. Franco Moretti unpacks the role of allegory in Fredric Jameson’s critical theory. Michael Burawoy traces the political and intellectual evolution of his friend and collaborator Erik Olin Wright, drawing on Polanyi to suggest how the divergent strands of critical and scientific Marxism could be re-united. In response, Dylan Riley sets Wright’s utopianism in the context of capitalist development. From Iran, Zep Kalb and Masoumeh Hashemi report on the domestic fortunes of the country’s international award-winning cinema under inflationary economic sanctions.

Plus book reviews: Rob Lucas on the new regime of data-driven capitalism described by Shoshana Zuboff; Emilie Bickerton on reassessments of seventies-era Hollywood New Wave; Jacob Collins on Peter Schöttler’s historiography of the Rhine as reflection of Franco-German national thinking.

How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century

by Erik Olin Wright

Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solid...

The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe

by Dylan Riley

Drawing on a Gramscian theoretical perspective and developing a systematic comparative approach, The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe challenges the received Tocquevillian consensus on author...

Far Country

by Franco Moretti

A dazzling account of the development of American cultural hegemony from one of the world’s leading literary theorists. Franco Moretti, acclaimed author of Graphs, Maps, Trees and Distant Reading, ...

A Short History of 'Cahiers du Cinéma'

by Emilie Bickerton

Cahiers du Cinéma was the single most influential project in the history of film. Founded in 1951, it was responsible for establishing film as the ‘seventh art,’ equal to literature, painting or mu...