On Thomas Pynchon.

In order to resist the attendant vices of his enterprise – the romanticising habits of a national-cinema tradition – Safdie ...

They became emblems of an alien future, imminent and universal. These concrete monuments in remote Minnesota or on the ...

It was Arendt who fused the Marxian and De Tocquevillian traditions in her account of modern totalitarianism (although there ...

The violence catalysed the biggest urban uprising in Kathmandu’s modern history. On 9 September, enraged crowds set the capital ablaze, torching government ministries, courts, the homes of leading ...

Elections in Moldova.

Every year, 13 or 14 thousand containers of various goods leave the port of Genoa for Israel. But if they stop the flotilla, ...

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 ...

A pair of new films, directed by filmmakers from Brooklyn, reflects the resilience of the noir-ish New York crime thriller – the genre of The Naked City (1948), Killer’s Kiss (1955) and The French ...

One of the features of our age is that ‘improvements’ are rarely good news. A promised improvement means that those with power are going to change something, and those with power would not be where ...

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 ...