Chinese cinema’s entry into the global culture market came in the late 1980s, with directors such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige collecting international awards and critical acclaim for films such as ...

Slums are the habitat par excellence for a very substantial part of the world’s informal workforce. These settlements can be either urban or rural, but their defining feature at first sight is the ...

Eliding the means while embracing the end: in classical rhetoric, the passage between the two is effected by enthymeme, whose ...

Brzezinski supported Détente, albeit with mounting tactical criticisms, until the mid-1970s. As I set out, he was seen as a ...

The distance between us briefly collapses before we go our separate ways. Read on: JoAnn Wypijewski, ‘Home Alone’, NLR 93.

Looking narrowly at the strong balance sheets of the leading hyperscalers – Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet – the AI boom ...

The Century of Revolution 1603—1714, by Christopher Hill: Nelson, 1961. 25s. the volume is the fifth in a series by different experts on English history, and wears the modest guise of a book for sixth ...

Few contemporary political upheavals have been as dramatic as the events that have convulsed Venezuela in the past five years. In 1998, former paratroop colonel Hugo Chávez was elected President by a ...

Iundertook to write this obituary of Louis Althusser for the alumni of the École Normale Supérieure in 1993, nearly three years after the thinker’s death; and not without hesitations and ...

In this novel treatment of an old topic, Norman Geras has found himself facing in two diametrically opposite directions: within the Marxist tradition, there are those who wish to deny legitimate room ...