Writers and missionaries w/ Adam Shatz
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Behind Alice Neel’s Marxist Girl
Irene Peslikis is often remembered simply as the subject of Alice Neel's portrait 'Marxist Girl', but as Chris Hayes writes she was also an inspiring artist and activist who played a pivotal role in feminist organising in New York. -
"Inside the inferno": T. J. Clark on Pasolini
Daniel Ward interviews art historian T. J. Clark about Pier Paolo Pasolini, neorealism, the influence of the Communist Party on post-war Italian culture and the recently published collection of Pasolini writing on painting, Heretical Aesthetics. -
Taking a Deeper Dive
Books that should be read together.
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Love and Money, Sex and Death: a Letter from the Editor
"There is a quiet, but fierce, revolution in these pages."—Leo Hollis
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The Internet Con: a Letter from the Editor
"Read this book and see that the future is in your hands."—Leo Hollis -
Remembering Martin Amis
Martin Amis, who died aged 73 earlier this year, has long been criticised from the left but for his political positions––first with Stalinism in Koba the Dread and then Islamic terrorism and his mishandled remarks about the Muslim community. But, argues critic Jared Marcel Pollen, it is for his style that he should be remembered more than his punditry. -
New Left Review 142, out now
In the latest issue: Lola Seaton responds to Riley & Brenner; unpublished texts by Hobsbawm, Williams, Miliband, Wollen. -
How It Should Be Between People
The novels of Vigdis Hjorth, one of Norway’s most celebrated writers, offer a powerful meditation on what it means to relate to other people. -
Solidarity needed for Russian anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky
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On Cannibals and Capitalists: Nancy Fraser & Gargi Bhattacharyya
Nancy Fraser & Gargi Bhattacharyya discuss exploitation, expropriation, and racial capitalism on The Verso Podcast. -
The Right-Wing Avant-Garde in American Fiction
In recent years, the New York literary avant-garde has shifted from a Sanders-aligned socialism to a far more amorphous politics, taking in online reactionaries like Bronze Age Pervert and Curtis Yarvin. But how did this happen, and what can this tell us about the idea of the avant-garde today?
