It is not easy today to say something original about fascism. Exceptionally, Dylan Riley’s intelligent study succeeds in opening fresh perspectives. The book leaves aside many matters that are ...

A considerable part of the leading German intelligentsia, including Adorno, have taken up residence in the ‘Grand Hotel Abyss. . . a beautiful hotel, equipped with every comfort. . . And the daily ...

In Britain, the history of public provision is a history of austerity. From the earliest experiments with ‘public works’ in ...

Raymond Williams and I arrived in Cambridge simultaneously in 1961, he from a long stint in adult education to a college Fellowship, I from a year’s teaching in a Northern secondary modern school to ...

During this year’s protests against the Eurozone’s austerity measures—in Greece and, on a smaller scale, Ireland, Italy and Spain—two stories have imposed themselves.footnote 1 The predominant, ...

Within the circles influenced by and sympathetic to postmodernism there has of late been discussion as to how long an engagement with traditional criteria of truth and value can be deferred.footnote 1 ...

The tension between natural law and history—the theme of this series of lecturesfootnote 1 —has come down to us, as so many other ideas, from the ancient Greeks. In a most famous passage of his ...

At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the whole of Eastern Europe was divided between three empires. Previous little statelets, survivors of medieval fragmentation, were absorbed into the three large ...

A man dressed in white with yellow butterflies pinned to his shirt is doing a dramatic reading from Cien años. He has a ...

Revised transcript of a recorded conversation between Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams – August Bank Holiday, 1959. R.W.: I’m glad that at last we’ve managed to meet. Since The Uses of Literacy ...

In November 1942 Werner Krauss, serving as a specialist for Spanish in a Wehrmacht translation unit in Berlin, was arrested as a member of the so-called ‘Red Orchestra’, the Schulze–Boysen resistance ...

Roughly the first half of Literary Criticism is taken up with telling the history of this double loss; in the second half of the book (which consists of a single chapter, ‘The Critical Unconscious’, ...