Peter’s college sweetheart and current best friend, Sylvia, is a professor of English literature; although Ivan considers her ...

DALL-E prompt: generate a photographic image of a kid in a council estate in the north of England in the 1980s, in the style ...

Judith Butler’s essay is welcome on several counts.footnote 1 It returns us to deep and important questions in social theory that have gone undiscussed for some time. And it links a reflection on such ...

Yet his adoptive family is so warm and loving that the lack, the ‘chasm’, torments him only intermittently. It’s surely ...

The Italian Girl. Iris Murdoch. Chatto & Windus, 21s. The Italian Girl does not take the process much further than its terrible predecessor, but neither does it recover any lost ground. There is still ...

The geography of the current anti-globalization protests signals a new world-political landscape for the Left. In a sense, this is a reversal of that historic shift of which Isaac Deutscher spoke—the ...

Key people.—The self-important type who only thinks himself something when confirmed by the role he plays in collectives which are none, existing merely for the sake of collectivity; the delegate with ...

Despite making some progress on green initiatives, Lula still seems determined to use fossil resources to drive development, ...

The death of Marcel Liebman in March of this year has deprived us of a major twentieth-century historian whose roots lay in classical Marxism untainted by leaden orthodoxies or passing fashions. Born ...

Up till the 1970s, the notion that the Rest would follow in the footsteps of the West was intrinsic to the dominant development paradigm. Through industrialization and urbanization, the ...

Eric Berne: Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships. André Deutsch. 21s. The games are, of course, the games which people play with each other, and one of the consequences of books ...