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Recent years have seen a renewed appreciation of the writing of the post-War Italian novelist Natalia Ginzburg, not least her celebrated books Family Lexicon, All Our Yesterdays and The Dry Heart. Yet, missing in the reading of her work as the laureate of unfulfilling marriages, thwarted relationships and tangled families is both their political context and Ginzburg's fierce commitment to emancipatory politics.

Interview with legal scholar Alain Supiot.

Philosopher and Bronx native Marshall Berman is justly remembered for his pioneering work on the experience of urban modernity. Less well known is his writing on the development of hip-hop. Here, Philippe Le Goff writes on the place of rap in Berman's work, and how the world of the South Bronx helped give the music form.

The 2016 Brexit referendum cracked much of the artifice of the Irish border, reigniting debates on partition and reunification on the island. Colin Gannon reports on the chances for, and stumbling blocks to, a renewed all-Ireland consciousness on the Irish left.

The time of emancipation, in Rancière’s imagination, is not a progression towards truth and justice. It is rather, Katharina Clausius argues, a common ground whose gridlines sprout delicate tendrils that extend out, coil around, germinate new shoots that spiral out beyond its boundaries.

An excerpt from Ruth Wilson Gilmore's new essay collection.

Oliver Davis on neoliberalism's appropriation of the Marxist narrative of historical necessity. 

Introducing the Verso roundtable on Modern Times, Jussi Palmusaari reflects on the underlying spatial logic of Rancière's conception of modernity and problematizes his notion of time as montage. If  time is not a line stretching from the past to the future, chaining causes and effects, how can it form the horizon for strategical political action?

Oli Mould, author of Against Creativtiy, on the post-covid shift to aesthetic imaginaries of alternative planetary presents. 

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How can we develop a theory and practice of ecological counterpower that is commensurate to the coming catastrophe? Davide Gallo Lassere on the limits of Andreas Malm's ecological Leninism.