Chinese architecture in the Mao era.

when i settle down to write to you, I feel somehow “freer” than usual. The reason, I suppose, is that most of the time I am writing for people whose ambiguities and values I imagine to be rather ...

What is this novel’s beautiful rule, the principle behind its variations? To transcribe means to ‘make a copy in writing’.

Starmer, a former state prosecutor with an inflated sense of his own rectitude, had earlier insisted that due process was ...

Whilst hybridity is far from a stable concept, a watered-down or weak version of it has gained currency in humanities departments and art schools. In this version of hybridity, Bhabha and Hall’s basic ...

Far from contradicting those who speak of the decline of reading, the vast quantities of new titles available today, with print-runs stretching into the millions, seem rather to confirm them in their ...

From this point of view, to speak of the world as one society, as one single framework for political action, is an impermissible metaphysical abstraction. It is quite true that imperialism has woven ...

Some time ago, while working on nineteenth-century literary markets, I was struck by how thoroughly British and French novels managed to streamline European cultural consumption: hundreds of thousands ...

Rather than, as in the Communist Manifesto, calling on workers (‘Proletarians of all countries, unite!’) to create something ...

to pass from a “way of conflict” to a “way of life” is to pass out of the main line of the socialist intellectual tradition. I don’t mean that Raymond Williams has “broken” with socialism: at many ...