Four years after the so-called full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it is very hard to disentangle oneself from all the clichés, ...

In Feldman’s formulation, it’s as if noise is a promise that music contains, only achieved under certain conditions. But ...

Haven in a Heartless World tells the well-known story that begins ‘Once upon a time there was a real family . . . ’ and, describing the forces of evil that invaded this citadel, ends with a gloomy ...

Takaichi also appeared to immediately betray the LDP’s promise of ‘change’ by appointing seven scandal-ridden politicians to the Cabinet and just two female state ministers, visibly failing to tackle ...

The relationship of women to cities has long preoccupied reformers and philanthropists.footnote 1 In recent years the preoccupation has been inverted: the Victorian determination to control ...

In one of his notebooks, Chekhov recorded the following anecdote: ‘A man in Monte Carlo goes to the casino, wins a million, returns home, commits suicide.’ The classic form of the short story is ...

NLR 153, May–June 2025. Includes articles by NLR Editors, Zhang Yongle, Michael Levien, Roberto Schwarz, Alyssa Battistoni, Aaron Benanav and Michael Burawoy ...

Awhile ago, science-fiction writer Ted Chiang described Chatgpt’s text output as a ‘blurry jpeg of all the text in the web’—or: as a semantic ‘poor image’.footnote 1 But the blurry output generated by ...

NLR 3, May–June 2000. Includes articles by Nancy Fraser, Benedict Anderson, Robert Pollin, Georgi Derluguian, David Marquand, Peter Wollen, Malcolm Bull, John Foot, Declan Kiberd, Gopal Balakrishnan ...

As if demonstrating that the repressed does return, politics has erupted in the supposedly apolitical world of American psychoanalysis. An advocacy group, Black Psychoanalysts Speak, and a documentary ...

NLR 147, May–June 2024. Includes articles by Tony Wood, Owen Hatherley, Cédric Durand, Radhika Desai, Rebecca Lossin, Grey Anderson, Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Rashid Khalidi ...

The Project on the City assembles research from an ongoing graduate seminar directed by Rem Koolhaas at the Harvard School of Design; its first two volumes—the Great Leap Forward, an exploration of ...