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A playlist from artist, musician and author Jenny Hval, filled with the songs she was listening to as she wrote her debut novel, Paradise Rot.

In response to high-profile accusations of sexual assault and the gathering storm around the prevelance of spy cam footage in the Korean porn industry, the past year has seen a snowballing women's movement in the traditionally conservative Korean society. In this article, So Yun Alysha Park looks at the tactics of the movement and its chances for enacting lasting change.

Penelope J. Corfield reflects on the personal and political life of her late uncle, the eminent Marxist historian Christopher Hill. Throughout his life, Hill was deeply committed to the principle of equality and the vision of a just society without poverty and exploitation - egalitarian ideals that are as important today as they were in the 1640s.

In a new episode of Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast Devin Fergus explains why Americans pay so many fees and how these fees function to redistribute wealth from ordinary Americans to the wealthy.

An exclusive excerpt from Jenny Hval's debut novel, Paradise Rot.

Pioneering scholar of world literature Pascale Casanova died on 29th September at the age of 59. This essay by Xavier de La Porte originally published in L'Obs, looks back at her life and her work.

In the first part of a two-part interview Will Davies discusses declining public trust in experts, the blurring of the distinctions between war and peace, the increasing irrelevance of macroeconomic indicators, and the rise of populism, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast

This summer, scandals around anti-semitism in the Labour party, and British society more generally, have flared up repeatedly. Yet, amidst the slanging match, nobody has stopped to develop an account of anti-Semitism capable of explaining both its persistence in contemporary Britain and its improper mobilisation as an allegation. In this piece, an extract from an essay in the forthcoming issue of Salvage, Barnaby Raine argues that it is precisely in developing a rigorous theory of anti-Semitism, one that moves away from conspiratorial thinking, is now an urgent task for the left.

Literary critic and pioneering scholar of world literature Pascale Casanova died on September 29, 2018, at the age of 59. Her works include the landmark study The World Republic of Letters, as well as books on Kafka, Beckett, and literary nationalism.

In this, the first chapter to her Samuel Beckett: Anatomy of a Literary Revolution, she argues, via a reading of Beckett's Worstward Ho, against Blanchot's reading of Beckett as offering a testament to the 'unsayable'. Instead, she argues that Worstward Ho "is a summit of Beckett's ars combinatoria, prodigiously controlled and devised, the magisterial conclusion to the whole oeuvre."

Recent years have seen a hardening of the regime of King Mohammed VI of Morocco. Increasingly protests in the country have been met with repression of dissidents, culminating in the arrest of more than 400 activist from the Northern Rif region. In this interview, Spanish journalist Ignacio Cembrero details the recent history of Morocco and the future of the nation.

It is often assumed that photographers act as neutral observers, documenting the wrongs of oppressive regimes in the name of the common good. In the third part of the series Unlearning Decisive Moments of Photography, Ariella Azoulay critiques the idea of "engaged photography" and shows that photographers have always played a crucial role in the constitution and perpetuation of imperial regimes.

Wisdom is the fundamental and ancient criterion for a judge. Kavanaugh has failed the test of wisdom not by what he is accused of doing when he was 17 and drunk but by his adult neglect of reflection and his indifference to suffering, something this moment puts in a sharper light.

JoAnn Wypijewski on Brett Kavanaugh.