‘I want to read about women who can’t make things.’
In Hannah Regel’s debut novel The Last Sane Woman, Nicola Long is a few years out of a fine arts degree, listless and unenthusiastically employed in London.
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The Fascist Disposition
What does the word “fascism” mean today, when fossil capitalism continues its accelerated march toward a climate catastrophe and the liberal democracies of North America and Europe support and arm Israel’s genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza? -
Remembering Paul Foot: A Tireless Campaigner for Justice
Paul Foot was one of the most influential investigative reporters of his generation. -
Yesterday's Peasants, Tomorrow's Fascists?
A new book by historian Patrick Joyce explores the lost world of the European peasantry. But, as farmers protest across the continent, what is the future of the world's agricultural workers? -
New Left Review 147, out now.
Rashid Khalidi talks to Tariq Ali about the history of the Palestinian national movement, its fraught relations with neighbouring Arab regimes, the realities of the US-run ‘peace process’, Israel’s grip on the Biden Administration and the strategic calculations – or miscalculations – of Hamas. -
Magisterial Figurations
For the final instalment of our Jameson at 90 series, Brittany Murray reflects on Fredric Jameson's The Benjamin Files. -
Symptoms of the present
For our Jameson at 90 series, Carolyn Lesjak reflects on Fredric Jameson's book Allegory and Ideology and his unique ability to diagnose symptoms of the present. -
Uncompromising Dialectics
For our Jameson at 90 series, Oded Nir writes about Fredric Jameson's Raymond Chandler and the presence of totality in art. -
So we have a Starmer government: what comes next?
Books to understand Britain’s political landscape, far-right populism, and how we can build our own Left movements. -
A Jewish socialist critique of Zionism, from 1906
Jewish Marxists have always rejected Zionism. In 1906, Chaim Jakov Gelfand, a leading member of the Bund, published this polemic in Die Neue Zeit, the theoretical journal of the German Social Democracy. -
More clash, less discontinuity
Brian Willems revisits Fredric Jameson's An American Utopia for our Jameson at 90 series. -
Utopian impulses and the pursuit of totality
In this instalment of our Jameson at 90 series, Ian Balfour returns to Fredric Jameson's The Ancients and the Postmoderns, reflecting on Jameson's career-spanning occupation with totality.
