In recent years its scale and ferocity have been brought to light by Thomas Deltombe, Jacob Tatsitsa and Manuel Domergue, ...

From this Vazquez gleans her speculative material, which could be classified as the hidden life of things and people, a ...

As Álvarez showed in his powerful crónica of the country today, The Tribe (2017; 2019), belonging to said tribe is a ...

Alex Nunns is an author and activist who worked as Jeremy Corbyn’s speechwriter from 2018 to 2020. He has chronicled the ups ...

At school everyone used to read of how Caesar conquered all of Gallia (Gaul) by doing nothing more than responding with ...

The ‘crisis of care’ is currently a major topic of public debate.footnote 1 Often linked to ideas of ‘time poverty’, ‘family-work balance’, and ‘social depletion’, it refers to the pressures from ...

'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 ...

To the victors, the spoils. A hundred years ago, after the conclusion of the First World War, the British Empire and its French ally broke up the old Ottoman-dominated Arab world and created new ...

One achievement of the avant-garde has been to show that anything can be art. There are numerous memorable examples spanning the century from Duchamp’s Fountain (1917) to Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian ...

Ahundred days after Trump’s second inauguration, the political philosopher Francis Fukuyama published a blistering critique of his rule. The single thread running through all Trump’s ...

Vilified by the entire cultural establishment and virtually every media outlet in the country, with the partial exception of Fox News, Trump managed to win the Upper Midwest—outperforming the opinion ...

Depending on whether it is scientific or political, ecology covers two distinct, though interconnected, approaches. I will begin by concentrating on the difference between their objectives, rather ...