On Thomas Pynchon.

They became emblems of an alien future, imminent and universal. These concrete monuments in remote Minnesota or on the ...

It was Arendt who fused the Marxian and De Tocquevillian traditions in her account of modern totalitarianism (although there ...

Elections in Moldova.

In order to resist the attendant vices of his enterprise – the romanticising habits of a national-cinema tradition – Safdie moves in the opposite direction to Dickinson – towards lo-fi realism, the ...

The violence catalysed the biggest urban uprising in Kathmandu’s modern history. On 9 September, enraged crowds set the capital ablaze, torching government ministries, courts, the homes of leading ...

Sometime in the next year, a woman will give birth in the Lagos slum of Ajegunle, a young man will flee his village in west Java for the bright lights of Jakarta, or a farmer will move his ...

The ouster of West Bengal’s Communist government after 34 years in power is no less of a watershed for having been widely predicted. For more than a generation the Party had shaped the culture, ...

In the early 1930s, Bung Karno [Sukarno] was hauled before a Dutch colonial court on a variety of charges of ‘subversion’. He was perfectly aware that the whole legal process was prearranged by the ...

To be french is always to rise to the times when they demand it . . . It is, ultimately, choosing to write history rather than be subjected to it.’ On 9 June 2024, with this grandiose flourish, ...