In NLR 157: Party and Class.

Nausicaa Renner on the Trumpian capture of the GOP.

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In NLR 157, Tony Wood reads the correspondence of four titans of the Latin American novel.

‘The Boom’s repurposing of the techniques of modernism enabled it to give literary expression to the historical vertigo of Latin America’s experience of modernization’.

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Adam Nayman, The More You Know — Sidecar Frederick Wiseman (1930-2026)

Adam Nayman (@brofromanother.bsky.social) on Frederick Wiseman:

'He liked to cultivate cacophony: classrooms and playgrounds as echo chambers; hospitals and missile silos as makeshift soundstages; prisons and city halls as towers of babble.'

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Richard Seymour, Cognitive Dissonance — Sidecar On the Iran war.

Richard Seymour (@leninology.bsky.social) on the Iran war:

'What of the pundit class? The vacuity of the casus belli and lack of any coalition-building or jurisprudential window-dressing alarmed outlets that had been reliably pugnacious over Iraq and Ukraine.'

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Rohana Kuddus on Indonesia’s answer to Trump in NLR 157:

‘Prabowo’s first year does not herald a new regime so much as bring out into the open the long counter-Reformasi drift.’

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Ma Jiajia, Nagatachō Bubble — Sidecar Reading the Japanese elections.

Ma Jiajia on interpreting the Japanese elections:

'Should the hopes Takaichi has stirred prove unfounded, a sharp correction cannot be ruled out.'

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Xi Ruochen on the history of Sinosphere publishing in NLR 157:

‘How did post-colonial Hong Kong become the platform for an alternative cultural ecology, composed of offshore publishers, critical scholars and a de-territorialized reading public?’

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In NLR 157: the New Dollar Imperialism.

Costas Lapavitsas on the primacy of the dollar in shaping the world economy.

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Brilliant article summarizing the global political moment and cautioning that we are very much in uncharted territory.

In NLR 157: Trump Abroad.

Susan Watkins analyses the political logics behind the strategic cacophony of Trump’s fifth year.

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In NLR 157: an interview with Ervand Abrahamian.

A leading historian of modern Iran on the power structures of the Islamic Republic and the long-incubated American-Israeli assault.

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Featuring an interview with Ervand Abrahamian on Iran and Susan Watkins on Trump.

Also in NLR 157: Costas Lapavitsas on dollar imperialism, Xi Ruochen on Sinosphere publishing, Tony Wood on the Latin American ‘boom’ and much more.

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Photo portrait of Marielle Franco

Also from the archive, a tribute to Marielle Franco by Juliana Neuenschwander and Marcus Giraldes.

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Photo portrait of Marielle Franco with a crowd in the background.

Brasilian feminist activist Marielle Franco's killers have just been convicted. From the archive, here's an article of hers we published at the time of her assassination.

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NLR Editors, The Siege of Cuba, NLR I/7, January–February 1961 the most important events in the international socialist movement in 1960 took place in Cuba. And it may be that the most important event of 1961 will be the consolidation or overthrow of Cuba’s socia...

A prescient NLR editorial from early 1961, written as the Cuban Revolution came under tightening external pressure and anticipating the Bay of Pigs invasion:

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Rob Lucas, Stranglehold? — Sidecar On Cuba.

@roblucas.bsky.social on the US attempt to strangle Cuba by cutting its fuel supply:

"... between the chokepoint of oil-dependence and a green alternative... The question is whether Cuba has the capacity to hold out long enough to reach new strategic terrain."

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Rob Lucas, Stranglehold? — Sidecar On Cuba.

"Identification with the mambise guerilla; invocation of the machete-charge; rehearsal of ‘patria o muerte’ cries – often performed at the top levels of state, these are not without their residual popular bases."

On Cuba and Venezuela in @newleftreview.bsky.social
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In NLR 156, Maria Haro Sly reviews Carlos Pagni’s expansive political analysis of the Buenos Aires periphery.

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Nic Johnson reviews Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution in NLR 156:

‘What is significant for the fiscal sociology of morals is virtually irrelevant from the perspective of macroeconomic regimes of accumulation.’

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In NLR 156, Grey Anderson reviews Edward Luce’s biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski:

‘Brzezinski’s concept of “peaceful engagement” was an activist alternative to détente, not a softer version of it.’

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In NLR 156, Julieta Caldas on Frieze:

‘Frieze is for the most part a terrible place to see art, but a good place to glimpse the money that greases its wheels.’

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In NLR 156: Pierre Vesperini on the politics of public history.

'Societies do not seek the most accurate knowledge of their history. They instead seek to cast a favourable light on their origins, their way of life and the values they claim to uphold.'

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In NLR 156, Cédric Durand pays tribute to Michel Aglietta, founder of the Parisian Regulation School of heterodox economics.

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Why has ‘Wikipedia’ become a pejorative term among book reviewers in recent years?

In NLR 156, Ryan Ruby on fiction and encyclopedia, from Sterne and Melville to Rachel Kushner and Sally Rooney

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In NLR 156: George Kennan-Anders Stephanson correspondence.

Unpublished letters between the Cold War strategist and a young Marxist critic studying his work.

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In NLR 156: History’s Shadow.

Why is South Africa stuck in forms of social and economic segregation, 30 years after apartheid? Kevin Cox unpacks the white regime’s class-making processes.

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Tariq Ali, Abduction in Caracas — Sidecar What happens next?

Tariq Ali on Maduro's ouster:

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Kevin Cox on South Africa; Ryan Ruby on the wikinovel; Cédric Durand remembers Aglietta; Pierre Vesperini on politics of history'; Julieta Caldas at Frieze; Nic Johnson on Melinda Cooper; Grey Anderson on Brzezinski and much more...

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James Wolcott, The Pattiverse — Sidecar On ‘Bread of Angels’.

'Destiny had little to do with it. From the moment Patti slid her dance slippers into the downtown poetry scene, a shark fin of ambition seemed to trail behind, slicing through the fug.'

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James Wolcott on Patti Smith:

James Wolcott, The Pattiverse — Sidecar On ‘Bread of Angels’.

James Wolcott on Patti Smith:

'Hers wasn’t the bolted-down, battle-mapped ambition of Madonna, but it had its own formidability, lightened and brightened by a goofball side alien to Madonna’s control panel.'

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