Iris Young and I seem to inhabit different worlds. In her world, there are no divisions between the social Left and the cultural Left. Proponents of cultural politics work cooperatively with ...

What can quantitative methods tell us about literary plots? Franco Moretti maps character networks from Shakespeare, Dickens and Cao Xueqin to shed light on questions of sovereignty, legitimacy and ...

NLR 153, May–June 2025. Includes articles by NLR Editors, Zhang Yongle, Michael Levien, Roberto Schwarz, Alyssa Battistoni, Aaron Benanav and Michael Burawoy ...

I From Adorno to Benjamin Hornberg, Black Forest, 2 August 1935 Dear Herr Benjamin: Today let me try to say something to you at long last about your draft essay, which I have studied very thoroughly ...

The Taiwanese New Wave has been described by Fredric Jameson as offering the finest cycle of any national cinema since the French. Leo Chanjen Chen explores the achievement of Edward Yang, one of its ...

Benjamin Kunkel on Bhaskar Sunkara, The Socialist Manifesto. A case for the democratic-socialist transformation of the United States, drawing lessons from the failures of the twentieth century.

The centrality of the town-country relation in the transition to capitalism in the West and more basically the equation of urbanism with capitalism and progress were already explicitly formulated in ...

The slums of Cairo find their homology in a new genre of narrative fiction, argues Sabry Hafez. Striking formal innovations of a generation raised under the asphyxiating rule of the Mubarak ...