An aetiology of flatness, traced through close readings of three radical American poets. In tension with the expressive subjectivity of lyric and the forceful register of political commitment, resonances of the muted, withdrawn or deadpan affect of this poetry with a broader cultural mode, as the sound of the historical present.
Retranslated by NLR, they are published here for the first time in English. In the first of four New Left texts from , published for the first time in English, Peter Wollen assesses the films of Karel Reisz, Lindsay Anderson, Tony Richardson, Joseph Losey—and surveys prospects for a seventh art capable of transcending literary antecedents, in the context of a stultifying national industry. Anatomization of the fifties and sixties generations of British novelists—Amis, Wain, Golding, Murdoch, Lessing—and playwrights: Osborne, Wesker, Delaney, Pinter, with new forms emerging from the conservatism of the early Cold War years across the crux of As counterpoint to prevalent myths and pieties, Hobsbawm supplies a mordant panorama of shifting habits and customs against a backdrop of polarized class and cultural divergence.
Prognosis of the incoming Wilson administration. With Conservative defeat all but assured, a prescient assessment of the likelihood of a structural economic shift or foreign policy reconfiguration.
From the Resistance to the PCI to journalistic postings in Italy and beyond, a work marrying sentimental history and political retrospect, revealing a radical and independent-minded figure. An iconoclastic dismantling of the myth of classical Greek philosophy as precursor to its modern forms. Trajectories of four theorists—de Benoist, Gauchet, Todd, Debray—whose metapolitical writings mark a volta in French social thought. Sign up to the NLR newsletter for notifications of new issues, including free articles, and the Sidecar round-up for weekly notifications of articles on the NLR blog.
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