Claims that Covid-19 was designed with nefarious intent are far-fetched. Although the initial cluster of infections in Wuhan ...

How is it that, for the first time to my knowledge, the charge of schematism can be levelled at the articles which l’Unità ...

Adom Getachew on Martin Thomas, The End of Empires. The violent history of twentieth-century decolonization, set in global ...

Tom Hazeldine on Tom McTague, Between the Waves. Story of the Powellite origins of Brexit, told by the New Statesman editor.

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Emilie Bickerton introduces a selection from the intensive discussions that erupted after Tarkovsky’s first feature, Ivan’s ...

In 1943, at the height of the war against Nazism, Andrei Tarkovsky, the debut director of the Soviet film Ivan’s Childhood, ...

Often, when discussing new Soviet artistic and literary phenomena, there is a tendency to make them more intelligible by ...

Bourgeois ideology in nineteenth-century England confronted a severe problem. footnote 1 Its withered roots in the sparse soil of utilitarianism seriously limited its ability to produce a richly ...

Brazil’s presidential runoff on Sunday 25 October produced several historic outcomes. More than 128 million people voted, with the combined share of abstentions, spoilt ballots and blank votes ...

The situation of women is different from that of any other social group. This is because they are not one of a number of isolable units, but half a totality: the human species. Women are essential and ...

‘As your jet starts its descent, you are glued to your window. The scene below is astonishing: a 24-square-mile archipelago of coral-coloured islands in the shape of an almost-finished puzzle of the ...