A key question, however, is rarely asked: what does ‘material interest’ mean? On closer inspection the term takes on a ...

Three and half years ago, the EU suddenly remembered that Moldova exists. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine meant that overnight, Moldova had become a frontline state. The small country of 2.4 million ...

Among the many lessons of Trump’s return to the White House, a crucial one concerns civil society: a mushy and frustrating, but nevertheless inescapable, concept. Taken up from Hegel’s Philosophy of ...

The prevailing cultural configuration in the United States is indicated by two recent items in the New York Times, whose common background is worth excavating. The first of these is a story published ...

For all its eccentricity and absurdism, the French poet Laura Vazquez’s debut novel, The Endless Week, grounds itself in the familiar. The quotidian is its object and its adversary. From this Vazquez ...

During the early 1990s, as Cuba suffered the rationing and blackouts of the post-Soviet Special Period, an agreement made to burnish Cuba’s cultural reputation enabled favoured artists to travel to ...

Preparations for the founding conference of Britain’s new socialist party – provisionally named ‘Your Party’ – are underway. More than 800,000 people have registered as supporters. Local groups, proto ...

Viktor Shklovsky’s Journey to the Land of Movies, originally published in 1926, is Ostranenie for kids. The Russian literary critic’s neologism – ‘making-strange’ – with its various German and English ...

Ari Aster, who gave the horror film a new jolt of macabre energy in Hereditary (2017) and Midsommar (2019), both concerned in part with the nightmare – or jet-black comedy – of being a daughter, has ...

It would be laughable if it were not so tragic. For at least four reasons. 1. The full-throated defence of globalization by a left that previously characterized it as the source of every human ...

Zarah Sultana is among Britain’s most prominent socialist leaders. Born in Birmingham in 1993, she became politically active in the student movement and later in the upsurge of Corbynism: serving on ...