Yet his adoptive family is so warm and loving that the lack, the ‘chasm’, torments him only intermittently. It’s surely ...

Despite making some progress on green initiatives, Lula still seems determined to use fossil resources to drive development, ...

New Left Review analyses world politics, the global economy, state powers and protest movements; contemporary social theory, history, philosophy and culture.

Tish Murtha, 13 Kenilworth Road, from the series Youth Unemployment, 1981. © Ella Murtha, all rights reserved. To stay with ...

A blue-walled room blitzed by scraps. Some are in frames, others displayed under glass like pinned butterflies. A collection of ephemera, fragments and parentheses: Untitled (Presumed Self-Portrait); ...

There has been one serious attempt to come to grips with the problems posed by Golding’s novels: in the February number of Twentieth Century for 1960 Ian Gregor & Mark Kirkard-Weekes published an ...

When Michel Barnier’s appointment as Prime Minister was announced on 5 September, many French voters experienced two simultaneous sensations which say a lot about the country’s political direction.

To read Robert Musil is to sense an approaching catastrophe. His narratives spiral downward from the daylight world of bourgeois conventions into the night of madness, the negativity of disorder, ...

Walter Benjamin is related to this pattern not only by his personal links with most of the members of this complex network, but also because he concentrates in his life and thought all the ...