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The New Left Review blog covers the same range as the journal – international politics, world capitalism, culture and ideas – but at higher speed and shorter length.
15 December 2020
War by Other Means
Theorizing the occupation of the Capitol.
21 January 2021
Vietnam’s Pandemic
The contours of Vietnam’s Covid-19 response and its economic fallout.
22 January 2021
Ins and Outs
The EU bids farewell to Britain.
19 January 2021
Lusophone Stories
History and allegory in the novels of José Eduardo Agualusa.
20 January 2021
Republican Futures
Replying to Mike Davis’s ‘Riot on the Hill’.
13 January 2021
War Zones
An interview with the veteran Middle East analyst.
14 January 2021
Riot on the Hill
Post-Trump Republican realignments get underway.
07 January 2021
Burying Pinochet
The struggle over Chile’s constitutional process, as ruling parties meet resistance on the streets.
12 January 2021
A New Voice
The minimalist autofiction of Fatima Daas.
08 January 2021
The Trial of Julian Assange
Assange’s extradition has been quashed – but this is only a first step.
05 January 2021
Left Tide in Ireland
The dynamics behind Sinn Féin’s stunning ascent in 2020.
06 January 2021
Hopes for 2021?
A bracing New Year’s blast for the American left.
05 January 2021
Winners All
The small print of the EU’s Corona relief fund.
31 December 2020
Featured
Starmer’s War
Lofted by the press, the Labour leader’s bid to purge the left – and expel Corbyn – is running into trouble.
15 December 2020
Negative Capability
The stigmas and stratifications of post-war France, refracted in the experimental life-writing of Annie Ernaux.
15 December 2020
NATO, Past and Future
With Biden pledging to restore the ‘rules-based order’, Germany steps up its imperial manoeuvres, and Macron eyes a European Army.
15 December 2020
Was Christ a Collaborator?
Vintage political analysis of the historical Jesus, by a long-standing comrade of the Review.
24 December 2020
Funeral Rites
Avant-garde documentarist Sergei Loznitsa assembles found Agfacolor footage of the USSR’s lurch into the post-Stalin era.
15 December 2020
Nigeria’s Revolt
Contra treatments of EndSARS as an African variant of Black Lives Matter, an overview of the movement in its national context.
22 December 2020
The Werewolf
A rarely seen early version of a classic short story – Carter’s haunting reimagining of the Red Riding Hood fable.
24 December 2020
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