Archive of Raymond Williams

An extract from the Introduction to this year’s Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism, the journal of the Raymond Williams Society. Robert Spencer and Christopher Vardy are editors of the special issue on ‘Crisis’ and argue below for urgent critical, theoretical, and political questions to be posed to greater understand how crises are understood and narrativized. 

New Left Review recently republished a relatively unknown 1961 essay from Raymond Williams on the 'Future of Marxism'. In this article, Daniel Gerke responds to the article and offers an illuminating account of what is identified as the consistency of Williams’s internationalism.

Ben Harker maps Williams’s developing positions on the relationship between culture, consciousness, class power, and socialist strategy.

In a conversation with Phil O'Brien of the Raymond Williams Society, Michael Denning discusses his four decades of learning from Williams' work. 

Terry Eagleton, Elinor Taylor, Jacob Soule, Patrick Parrinder, and others on the life and work of Raymond Williams.