Art is for making games’, he writes, ‘that’s the message for today’. But even among his admirers it feels as if there’s a lingering misconception about Raworth: that because his work is funny, ...

Why’, the young naif Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) asks in Blue Velvet, ‘is there so much trouble in this world?’ Three decades ...

The only uncertainty was the identity of the runner-up, with a number of candidates vying for position: Nicolae Ciucă of the ...

Could American technofeudalism therefore turn out to be a fragile Leviathan? Will Trump’s return to power be remembered as a ‘great event’, or is this merely false gossip? Read on: Cédric Durand, ...

On Joseph Stiglitz.

If only the lords of Silicon Valley had read their Aftalion, who had compared the rhythm of investment to people stacking ...

'Nowadays, national literature doesn’t mean much: the age of world literature is beginning, and everybody should contribute to hasten its advent.’ This was Goethe, of course, talking to Eckermann in ...

In times like these, the very appearance of an essay like Oliver Eagleton’s offers a glimmer of hope.footnote 1 His critique of my work is both historically conscious and generous towards the often ...

We may never unravel the mysteries of this abject gesture. What matters now is what a second Trump term, with Rubio as Secretary of State, is going to look like. Across the Straits from Rubio’s home ...

Ralph Miliband’s recently published work, The State in Capitalist Society,footnote 1 is in many respects of capital importance. The book is extremely substantial, and cannot decently be summarized in ...