Does hegemony require a grand design?
Neither US vassal nor world power.
Routes out of the Ukraine crisis.
On Michel Houellebecq.
Alana Hunt’s chronicles of Kashmiri occupation.
Putin’s invasion revitalizes NATO.
Laurent Cantet’s unsettling latest film.
Surrealism past and present.
The politics of atrocities.
Freedom and constraint in the art of Helen Frankenthaler.
The campaign for war with Russia.
The ambivalence of the Portuguese left.
A new biography of Elizabeth Hardwick.
E.O. Wilson (1929–2021).
On Britain’s plan for regional rebalancing.
An interview with Reinaldo Iturriza, Venezuela’s former Culture Minister.
Terrence McDonough (1952-2021).
Interpreting the coup in Burkina Faso.
The films of Julia Ducournau.
On Lea Ypi’s ‘Free’.
The cruelty of economic warfare.
End of the Nazarbayev era.
Will the Workers’ Party break with big finance?
On Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘Memoria’.
On the latest film by Paul Thomas Anderson.
The provocative prose of Christine Angot.
Hamid Ismailov’s dissident fictions.
The legal route to EU integration.
Memories of world history.
Ramsey Clark (1927-2021).
In search of India’s literary underground.
Comparing antiquities.
Resisting the US empire.
A bleak choice for the electorate.
Archaeology of the Capitalocene.
Socialism on the streets.
Reappraising Sartre’s art writing.
North Macedonia’s once-bright future fades from view.
Fortunes of the ‘European Army’.
A new chapter in US labour militancy?
Global environmental policy after COP26.
Testimonies of Brazil’s domestic workers.
The politics of cryptocurrencies.
Adam Tooze and the ‘energy dilemma’.
Sylvère Lotringer (1938-2021).
Nicaragua after the election.
Turmoil and stasis in Europe’s impossible nation.
Defining Johnson’s foreign policy.
The antinomies of green capitalism.
A return to Viennese modernism.