The title of your novel Do Everything in the Dark (2003) comes from Swift: ‘Do all in the dark (as clean glasses, etc.) to ...

There could be dozens, hundreds of similar projects that work with the grain of proletarian spaces, with their existing users. But since any break with Thatcher-Blair-Cameron-Johnson-Sunak housing ...

Emma Fajgenbaum on Clinton Fernandes, Subimperial Power. Australia’s role as adjutant to British and then American power; ...

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Yet his legacy remains contested, and obscure to many outsiders. Gülen was born to a modest family in the mountainous northeastern province of Erzurum. Although his birth date is now accepted as 27 ...

The subject of our session this evening has been a focus of intellectual debate and political passion for at least six or seven decades now.footnote ＊ It already has a long history, in other words. It ...

Up till the 1970s, the notion that the Rest would follow in the footsteps of the West was intrinsic to the dominant development paradigm. Through industrialization and urbanization, the ...

The figure that emerges from Monterroso’s ludic assemblage is one of the sublime fools of literature, a man whose commitment to delusion is itself a kind of glorious art. Through the risible figure of ...

Before the fall of the Soviet Union my grandfather was a blur to me, a figure enveloped in legend.footnote 1 This was due to my father, Giuliano, who was a great romantic—a talented musician and ...

'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 ...

What is ‘the anti-globalization movement’?footnote 1 I put the phrase in quote-marks because I immediately have two doubts about it. Is it really a movement? If it is a movement, is it ...

Icoined the term ‘antisystemic movement’ in the 1970s in order to have a formulation that would group together what had, historically and analytically, been two distinct and in many ways rival kinds ...