A casual reader who picked up Piero Sraffa’s Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities might be fascinated by the crystalline style in which it is written, but he would be puzzled to know why ...

Lola Seaton on Janet Malcolm, Nobody’s Looking at You. The art and craft of literary non-fiction, deploying the stratagems of the psychoanalyst’s couch.

In a poem called ‘Berlin’, from Being Reflected Upon (2024) she talks about that afternoon: ‘I like to sit on a park bench ...

In 2020 Bulgaria joined the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, designed to maintain a stable exchange system between the euro ...

Transformations of the Prison Notebooks’ fertile problematic of hegemony by a quartet of thinkers—Hall, Laclau, Guha, Arrighi—from Jamaica, Buenos Aires, Bengal, Milan. Coercion and persuasion, ...

The Impossibility of Innocent Biography The biography, which was so little assessed as a text in the ‘quality’ press, has many solid virtues. Inglis had access to a wide range of what he calls ...

Tariq Ali on Rebecca E Karl, Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World. Level-headed exploration of the Great Helmsman’s life and legacies.

A Gesture of Affiliation I have chosen Derrida’s text for my own reflections for the simple reason that it affords us an opportunity to assess the politics of deconstruction—in the hard sense of the ...

Hegel and Marx As we have implied in our introductory remarks, the concept of reification makes sense only within a dialectical perspective. Hegel made it clear that the dialectic is precisely the ...

We have seen, in our own time, the climax and the decline of liberal tragedy. To understand its structure of feeling is now a central problem. For we are all to some extent still governed by it, even ...