Grey Anderson: Grander Narratives
Grey Anderson on Jacob Collins, The Anthropological Turn. Trajectories of four theorists—de Benoist, Gauchet, Todd, Debray—whose metapolitical writings mark a volta in French social thought.
View ArticleRobin Osborne: Why Should The Ancients Matter?
Robin Osborne on Pierre Vesperini, Lucrèce and La philosophie antique. An iconoclastic dismantling of the myth of classical Greek philosophy as precursor to its modern forms
View ArticlePerry Anderson: Giorgio Fanti
Portrait of the organizer of the 1963 issue of Il Contemporaneo on Britain, by way of his memoir, I distintivi all’occhiello. From the Resistance to the PCI to journalistic postings in Italy and...
View ArticleRalph Miliband: If Labour Wins . . .
Prognosis of the incoming Wilson administration. With Conservative defeat all but assured, a prescient assessment of the likelihood of a structural economic shift or foreign policy reconfiguration. The...
View ArticleEric Hobsbawm: Society: New and Old
How far did Britain’s class structure alter in the sixties, with the onset of the ‘affluent society’? As counterpoint to prevalent myths and pieties, Hobsbawm supplies a mordant panorama of shifting...
View ArticleRaymond Williams: Theatre and the Novel
Anatomization of the fifties and sixties generations of British novelists—Amis, Wain, Golding, Murdoch, Lessing—and playwrights: Osborne, Wesker, Delaney, Pinter, with new forms emerging from the...
View ArticlePeter Wollen: Cinema: The New Wave
In the first of four New Left texts from 1963, published for the first time in English, Peter Wollen assesses the films of Karel Reisz, Lindsay Anderson, Tony Richardson, Joseph Losey—and surveys...
View ArticleNLR Editors: Condition Of Britain
Introducing the four pieces that follow, by Peter Wollen, Raymond Williams, Eric Hobsbawm and Ralph Miliband, commissioned by the Italian communist Giorgio Fanti for a special issue of Il contemporaneo...
View ArticleAnahid Nersessian: Notes on Tone
An aetiology of flatness, traced through close readings of three radical American poets. In tension with the expressive subjectivity of lyric and the forceful register of political commitment,...
View ArticleNathan Sperber: Party and State in China
Unlocking the conceptual monolith of the ‘party-state’, Nathan Sperber sets the evolving relationship between the CCP and the vast governmental apparatus through which it rules in comparative...
View ArticleLola Seaton: Reflections On ‘Political Capitalism’
In a probing response to Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner’s ‘Seven Theses on American Politics’, Lola Seaton interrogates the claim that a novel regime of accumulation has emerged from the long downturn...
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