New Left Review 157, out now

In the Latest Issue

With Iran under fire, leading historian Ervand Abrahamian provides a critical anatomy of the power structures of the Islamic Republic and a scathing denunciation of the long-incubated American-Israeli assault.

Susan Watkins analyses the political logics at stake amid the strategic cacophony of Trump’s second term, as the US ratchets up from covert to overt assassinations, from wars of attrition to wars of overthrow.

Also in NLR 157: 

Xi Ruochen sketches a history of Sinosphere publishing, charting the relationship between Hong Kong and the Mainland.

Rohana Kuddus scrutinizes the first year in office of Prabowo, butcher of East Timor and Indonesia’s answer to Trump.

Costas Lapavitsas elaborates the economic structures of the new dollar imperialism.

Plus book reviews: Tony Wood reads the correspondence of four titans of the mid-century Latin American novel, Nausica Renner considers the transformations that enabled the Trumpian capture of the GOP and Emilie Bickerton reflects on Godard’s ‘phantom’ oeuvre, the films he never made.