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Jonathan Glazer’s Zone of Interest has been read by critics as a reflection of the banality of evil. But, what if it in its materialist insistence on impersonal forces, it is actually about not evil's banality but its ubiquity?

Jean-Luc Mélenchon describes the slander campaign that has been carried out against him in the lead up to France's snap legislative elections.

Paul Elek argues that the only way to prevent a fascist government in France is a united response from the social and political left.

In response to the BLM protests, book publishers from giant majors to tiny indies rushed to respond. Nothing comparable has happened in response to the genocide in Gaza. But what role should publishers have in times of crisis, if any at all? And can they show solidarity without diluting a movement's radicalism?

Claire Bishop examines the way we look at art and performance today.

Frédéric Lordon makes the case for voting for France's "New Popular Front" – formed by La France Insoumise, the Socialist Party, the Greens, the Communist Party and some smaller formations – in Saturday's snap first election round.

Explore Paris arm in arm with Balzac, 19th century France’s most famous novelist and observer.

For our Jameson at 90 series, Anna Kornbluh revisits Fredric Jameson's project to theorize Marx's Capital as a representation in his book Representing Capital.

Andrew Cole revisits Fredric Jameson's The Hegel Variations through notes he took as a graduate student in Jameson's seminars for our Jameson at 90 series.

Sianne Ngai likens the totality of Fredric Jameson's work to a musical composition, hitting key notes that synthesize in the composer's master chord. The work that most embodies this phenomenon, she argues, is Jameson's Valences of Dialectic.