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Beset by interlocking crises, is the UK once again haunted by the spectre of decline? Perry Anderson provides an analysis that spans economy, polity, ideology, territory and diplomacy, testing out how far the original theses proposed by NLR to understand the country’s plight may still apply – or require adaptation – for the present.

Also in NLR 125

Susan Watkins surveys the political impact of COVID-19 across the contrasted regimes of Vizcarra, Bolsonaro, Merkel, Modi, Xi and Trump; John Grahl investigates the Eurozone’s dollar dependence; Sophie Pinkham examines the situation of culture in Russia; Marcus Verhagen questions the discourse of ‘slow art’.

Plus book reviews: Aaron Benanav on world-economic asymmetries; Laura Kipnis on sexual politics; John-Baptiste Oduor on the iconoclastic philosophy of Raymond Geuss.

What We Don't Talk About

by JoAnn Wypijewski

What if we took sex out of the box marked ‘special’, either the worst or best thing that a human person can experience, and considered it within the complexity of reality? In this extraordinary boo...

Automation and the Future of Work

by Aaron Benanav

Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work ...

English Questions

by Perry Anderson

A set of reflections on British society and culture, this volume falls into two principal parts. The first consists of a pair of essays published in New Left Review in the sixties; “Origins of the ...

The Northern Question

by Tom Hazeldine

Britain has scarcely begun to come to terms with its recent upheavals, from the crisis over Brexit to the collapse of Labour’s 'red wall'. What can explain such momentous shifts?In this essential w...