In NLR 159: Manufacturing Impunity Tom Mertes on Richard Beck’s account of the origins and afterlives of America’s War on Terror. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

Tony Wood on Cristina Rivera Garza's 'Autobiography of Cotton': 'Can the historical chain of developments in northern Mexico, from cotton farming to narco-violence, really be subsumed into a single campaign conducted by an unchanging state?' newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Cristina Rivera Garza’s ‘Autobiography of Cotton’.

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In NLR 159: Norm Smuggling? Katie Ebner-Landy evaluates Rahel Jaeggi’s reframing of progress as social problem-solving rather than development. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

In NLR 159: Rentier Regimes Jack Copley (@jackcopley.bsky.social) assessesTimothy Mitchell’s conceptualization of capital as capture of the future. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

In NLR 159: Dynamics of American Capitalism. Javier Moreno Zacarés offers a critical appraisal of Jonathan Levy’s The Real Economy, the theoretical counterpart to his history of American capitalism. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

In NLR 159: Steppe Transitions. Christian Sorace and David Sneath present a materialist analysis of Mongolia’s transformations to socialism and capitalism. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

In NLR 159: Metamorphoses Cultural observations from a life lived through two ages: Régis Debray reflects on shifts from prospects to retrospects, page to screen and time to space. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

In NLR 159: The New World Climate Order. An interview with Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos.bsky.social) on the current state of global climate politics, from anti-extractivist protests to the persistence of fossil capital. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

In NLR 159: Hyperpolitics in Command. Anton Jäger diagnoses the scrambled political culture of Western elites. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

NLR 159 is out now. Featuring Anton Jäger on elite political culture, Javier Moreno Zacarés on American capitalism, an interview with Thea Riofrancos on the state of world climate politics, and much more. newleftreview.org

NLR 159, May–June 2026

NLR 159, May–June 2026. Includes articles by Tom Mertes, Jack Copley, Katie Ebner-Landy, Anton Jäger, Thea Riofrancos, Javier Moreno Zacarés, Christian Sorace, David Sneath and Régis Debray

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In NLR 158: Western Promises. Thomas Meaney reviews Fritz Bartel’s The Triumph of Broken Promises: the end of the Cold War as a contest to impose capital’s discipline, East and West. newleftreview.org/issues/ii158...

In NLR 158: The Art of Counter-Remembrance: Marcus Verhagen asks how art can grapple with an event like the Grenfell Tower fire. Contrasting modes of aesthetic response explored in the works of Chris Ofili, Steve McQueen and Forensic Architecture. newleftreview.org/issues/ii158...

Richard Beck on the war against Iran: ‘States can only bear the strain of such incompetent and destructive leadership for so long.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Richard Beck, Core Interests — Sidecar

On Trump’s foreign policy.

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Rachel Armitage on Matthew Rices’s ‘plastic’ ( @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social ): Rancière describes ‘stolen time’ as the means ‘by which men and women wrenched themselves out of an identity formed by domination’. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Matthew Rice’s ‘plastic’.

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Tony Wood on elections in Peru: ‘A major factor in the opacity of Peruvian politics for outside observers is that party labels tend to hold only provisional meaning at best.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Elections in Peru.

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In NLR 158: Against Abolitionism Loïc Wacquant offers a sociological critique of radical calls for the abolition of police, courts and prisons. newleftreview.org/issues/ii158...

In NLR 158: Tom Stevenson interviews Richard Overy. One of Britain’s leading historians discusses the Second World War as a terminal contest between imperial-colonial systems. newleftreview.org/issues/ii158...

In NLR 158: Gaza as World Event. Nancy Fraser reads the global reverberations of Israel’s destruction of Gaza as a crisis point in the prevailing Western moral order. Reflections on neo-McCarthyism in Germany and the US. newleftreview.org/issues/ii158...

In NLR 158: Beyond Neoliberalism? Nathan Sperber takes neoliberalism’s vital signs in a multidimensional analysis—what is alive and what dead across ideology, policy, accumulation regime and class domination? newleftreview.org/issues/ii158...

In NLR 158: Trump's Gulf War. Alexander Zevin on the US-Israeli war on Iran, as an uneasy balance holds between Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz and the enormous firepower of the aggressors. newleftreview.org/issues/ii158...

NLR 158 out now! * Alexander Zevin on Trump's Gulf War * Nancy Fraser on Gaza as world event * Nathan Sperber analyses the death and life of neoliberalism Plus: Richard Overy discusses WW2; Loïc Wacquant on prison abolition; Thomas Meaney on the Cold War and more... newleftreview.org/issues/ii158

NLR 158, March–April 2026

NLR 158, March–April 2026. Includes articles by Nancy Fraser, Marcus Verhagen, Sebastian Veg, Nathan Sperber, Loic Wacquant, Thomas Meaney, Richard Overy and Alexander Zevin

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In NLR 157: Party and Class. Nausicaa Renner on the Trumpian capture of the GOP. newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...

In NLR 157, Tony Wood reads the correspondence of four titans of the Latin American novel. ‘The Boom’s repurposing of the techniques of modernism enabled it to give literary expression to the historical vertigo of Latin America’s experience of modernization’. newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...

Adam Nayman (@brofromanother.bsky.social) on Frederick Wiseman: 'He liked to cultivate cacophony: classrooms and playgrounds as echo chambers; hospitals and missile silos as makeshift soundstages; prisons and city halls as towers of babble.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Frederick Wiseman (1930-2026)

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Richard Seymour (@leninology.bsky.social) on the Iran war: 'What of the pundit class? The vacuity of the casus belli and lack of any coalition-building or jurisprudential window-dressing alarmed outlets that had been reliably pugnacious over Iraq and Ukraine.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Richard Seymour, Cognitive Dissonance — Sidecar

On the Iran war.

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Rohana Kuddus on Indonesia’s answer to Trump in NLR 157: ‘Prabowo’s first year does not herald a new regime so much as bring out into the open the long counter-Reformasi drift.’ newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...

Ma Jiajia on interpreting the Japanese elections: 'Should the hopes Takaichi has stirred prove unfounded, a sharp correction cannot be ruled out.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Ma Jiajia, Nagatachō Bubble — Sidecar

Reading the Japanese elections.

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Xi Ruochen on the history of Sinosphere publishing in NLR 157: ‘How did post-colonial Hong Kong become the platform for an alternative cultural ecology, composed of offshore publishers, critical scholars and a de-territorialized reading public?’ newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...

In NLR 157: the New Dollar Imperialism. Costas Lapavitsas on the primacy of the dollar in shaping the world economy. newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...

Brilliant article summarizing the global political moment and cautioning that we are very much in uncharted territory.

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In NLR 157: Trump Abroad. Susan Watkins analyses the political logics behind the strategic cacophony of Trump’s fifth year. newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...