Rob Lucas on Edward Fishman, Chokepoints. An insider’s account of the US sanctions regime, its heroes the technocrats waging ...

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

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

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

With Europe’s elites more willing to embark on a zombie rearmament than grapple with the divisions in their own hollowed ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was a grim poignancy to the timing of Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán’s death on 15 September. Best known for The Battle of Chile (1975–79), his trilogy chronicling the triumph and agonizing ...

No need to get ahead of ourselves: it will still be a few years before the AfD takes power. In the five German state elections held this year, while they were the only party to increase their vote ...

Fifteen years after the indignados occupied the Puerta del Sol, Madrid’s central plaza is once again the locus of a mass movement that has brought Spain to a political impasse. How are we back here ...