All articles from New Left Review
Martín Mosquera: The Meaning of Milei
With Latin America in Trump’s cross-hairs, a report from Buenos Aires on the social stalemate that allowed far-right firebrand Javier Milei to impose the harshest shock therapy in Argentina’s history.
Dylan Riley & Robert Brenner: The Long Downturn and Its Political Results
Responding to the wide-ranging debate sparked by their ‘Seven Theses on American Politics’ (NLR 138), Riley and Brenner expand the temporal frame of their analysis of capitalist stagnation as an endog
Owen Hatherley: Architecture of the Future?
The built legacy of the Soviet Bloc is undergoing a dramatic reappraisal, from crumbling concrete brutalism to Instagrammable socmod chic. Hatherley’s critical survey of a growing body of work in this
Nan Z. Da: Literary Criticism in the Age of AI
Critical analyses of AI usually adopt a stance of defensive humanism. Instead, Nan Da interrogates its mode of reasoning. How do LLMs make the step from data to inference—and what does it mean when th
Nicholas Mulder: Interludes of Abundance
Nicholas Mulder on Arnaud Orain, Le monde confisqué. Reading of the current neo-mercantilist lurch as a return to the norm of long-run capitalist history.
Gabriele Pedullà: Timpanaro’s Materials
Gabriele Pedullà on Tom Geue, Major Corrections. Intellectual biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro, who brought the tools of philology to bear in a keen-sighted historical materialism.