New Left Review 150, out now
Matthew Karp charts the continuities underlying Trump’s two victories, probing the causes of voter disengagement at a time of heightened geopolitical tension.
In the Latest Issue:
An interview with Ernesto Teuma, member of the La Tizza editorial collective in Havana, on the development of a new Cuban Left: shaped by the period of Reform, activated by social movements, and engaged with traditions of critical Marxism; a year into Lulismo’s second term, André Singer assesses the state of play for a government faced with an energetic and strengthening far-right and a Congress mired in centrist corruption; Hobsbawm’s positions on liberalism, its hold on French intellectual life in particular, excavated and examined by Alexander Zevin; a selection of texts introducing the work of the late Mark Elvin (1938–2024), pre-eminent comparative historian of Chinese civilisation, distinguished by his literary and scientific sensibilities; Rachel Kushner on the luxuriant and ruinous juxtapositions created by an exhibition of Cy Twombly’s drawings at the Casa Malaparte; Roberto Schwarz reads Beckett’s Endgame through the critical matrix set out by Adorno’s engagement with the text—the event ‘out there’ and the chasm of history; the work of internationalist American auteur Robert Kramer is surveyed by Erika Balsom; and Peter Osborne moves between Schlegel and Donald Judd to uncover the logical structure behind art-critical judgments of the ‘interesting’.