Archive of Literature

Marxist Feminist film scholar Dai Jinhua, one of the preeminent cultural critics of China's New Left, historicizes the rapid cultural and intellectual developments that took place in China during the 1980s and 90s. 

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

Tamás discusses Lukács' philosophy and the attack on his legacy in Orbán's Hungary. 

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

Fredric Jameson on Ursula K. Le Guin's method of radical abstraction and simplification.

Rancière elaborates on some of the ideas developed within his latest book, Les Bords de la fiction.

In the centenary of the October revolution, much has been said about it as a moment in history. Here McKenzie Wark inquires as to what becomes of the myth of October, now that we are in the time of the Anthropocene. 

Matt Holden's translation of Nanni Balestrini's We Want Everything has been shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association's 2017 Italian Prose in Translation Award. 

A 1934 poem by Muriel Rukeyser, collected in Red Velvet Seat: Women's Writing on the First Fifty Years of Cinema.