In Dubai.

Major General Muhammadu Buhari, who died in a London hospital this month at the age of 82, came to international prominence on the last day of 1983, when he and his deputy, Major General Túndé ...

Tracking the terms ‘populism’ and ‘the people’ from the 19th century, Marco D’Eramo offers a striking new interpretation of their current applications—the first levelled indiscriminately at any ...

NLR 123, May–June 2020. Includes articles by Adrian Grama, Julian Stallabrass, Roberto Schwarz, Mao Jian, Sharachchandra Lele, Monique Sicard, Wolfgang Streeck, Robert Brenner, Francis Mulhern, Carlo ...

Modernism, Modernity, Modernization Berman’s essential argument, then, starts as follows: ‘There is a mode of vital experience—experience of space and time, of the self and others, of life’s ...

Students of parliamentary history are familiar with the idea of ‘Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition’. Marxism, as a social-historical phenomenon, has been Her Modern Majesty’s Opposition to modernity.

This letter is best known in the abbreviated and partially altered version included under the heading ‘A Single Spark can Start a Prairie Fire’ in the editions of Mao’s writings published at Peking ...

Founding editor of NLR, pioneer of Cultural Studies, early analyst of Thatcherism, theorist of Caribbean identities, nuncio of New Times—Robin Blackburn remembers Stuart Hall.

A casual reader who picked up Piero Sraffa’s Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities might be fascinated by the crystalline style in which it is written, but he would be puzzled to know why ...

At the mention of long cycles, most economists will recall Joseph Schumpeter’s classic study, Business Cycles. In that work Schumpeter referred to cyclical movements of approximately fifty years in ...

The Impossibility of Innocent Biography The biography, which was so little assessed as a text in the ‘quality’ press, has many solid virtues. Inglis had access to a wide range of what he calls ...