In books like Hold Everything Dear, his acknowledgement of the defeat of the communism in which he was a lifelong, if ...

In one of his notebooks, Chekhov recorded the following anecdote: ‘A man in Monte Carlo goes to the casino, wins a million, returns home, commits suicide.’ The classic form of the short story is ...

The old filmstock is gorgeous, warm ghosts of pineapples and oranges bleed sensuously into drawings and paintings. The ...

The NCR is one of the most densely industrialized areas in the world, a constellation of planned manufacturing hubs, ...

In his n+1 essay, Harris looked beyond Europe and its ‘art cinema’ to take stock of the more varied landscape of cultural institutions across the Global South. On the one hand, he explored the ...

What kind of regime of accumulation is taking shape today? The distinguishing features of the contemporary Atlantic economy—prolonged stagnation, globalized production, financialization, upward ...

Why speak about courtly love (amour courtois) today, in the age of permissiveness, when sexual encounter is often nothing more than a ‘quickie’ in some dark corner of an office?footnote 1 The ...

In France as in the United States and Britain, establishment hopes that the courts might halt the rise of the far right have once again come to nought. In March last year, the Tribunal correctionnel ...

What is a bubble? It is a collective belief. What is a crash? It is the collapse of that belief. AI has given rise to two bubbles. There is a stock market bubble – the two highest-profile players, ...

Iam the king and I will destroy you—all of the castas feed my appetite’, Javier Milei bellowed at his victory rally after Argentina’s legislative elections on 26 October 2025.footnote 1 His party’s ...

A fifth phase in the evolution of the journal runs approximately from late 1968 to mid 1971 (nos 52–67). A general radicalization, amidst the inter national student and worker upsurges in Western ...