‘Always historicise!’ With this resounding imperative, Fredric Jameson opens his third major work of Marxist literary theory, of which the precursors were Marxism and Form (1971) and The Prison-House ...

Beneath the town of Springs, near Johannesburg, where Nadine Gordimer was born in 1923, runs the richest vein of gold in the ...

The death of Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist and politician and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa marks the end of a golden age of Latin American literature. With his demise the Latin American ...

In 1981, Leszek Kolakowski began the introduction to the first volume of his magisterial trilogy Main Currents of Marxism with the statement ... The strength of Marx’s thought lies in his analysis of ...

Rudd is, as this elegantly written book demonstrates, a preeminent scholar of China who has produced an in-depth exploration of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s worldview and the dramatic impact it has had ...

In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments ...

John Cassidy’s “Capitalism and Its Critics” is a rewarding guide to the many fascinating attempts throughout history to ...

Omer Bartov, Israeli-born, renowned scholar of the Holocaust, has said lately that the genocide of Jews in the European 1940s is now fixed in history along with the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

Pope Francis has died at the age of 88. The 88-year-old pope, who had part of one lung removed as a young man, has long ...

Trump Attacks Zelensky for Rejecting U.S. Terms for Ending War President Trump lashed out at President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on social media on Wednesday after he rejected U.S. terms to ...

It was with considerable sadness that I learnt last week about the passing of my friend, Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Laureate and literary giant ... from what he described as economic chaos and Marxist ...