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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
Reading the Room
Lauren Oyler’s debut and the challenges of the ‘Internet Novel’.
22 February 2021
Thrill Rides
Los Angeles in the age of Covid – vaccines and rollercoasters, inequity and isolation.
18 February 2021
In Defence of Ken Loach
The smear campaign against the great radical director must be resisted.
18 February 2021
Crooked Lebanon
Cultures of corruption in a broken economy.
17 February 2021
Vaccine Debacle
German political manoeuvring meets EU ineptitude.
16 February 2021
Nobel Prize for War
Restoring integrity to a noble institution.
15 February 2021
The Biopolitics of Nursing Homes
The modern ‘deathery’ as a key piece of our social mosaic.
12 February 2021
A Gorgeous Parade
Mostafa Derkaoui’s rediscovered masterwork of political modernism.
11 February 2021
Swimming In It
Anatomizations of the capitalist everyday in the work of essayist Eula Biss.
10 February 2021
Putin’s Majority?
The adaptable politics of Alexey Navalny, and the reshaping of the Russian opposition.
09 February 2021
Myanmar Days
The latest military intervention and its origins in the country’s electoral system.
08 February 2021
Writing Zimbabwe
Narratives of development in the work of Tsitsi Dangarembga.
05 February 2021
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