The old filmstock is gorgeous, warm ghosts of pineapples and oranges bleed sensuously into drawings and paintings. The ...

What is a crash? It is the collapse of that belief. AI has given rise to two bubbles. There is a stock market bubble – the ...

Landy on Rahel Jaeggi, Progress and Regression. A critical theorist reformulates the concept of progress as social-reflexive problem-solving.

A response to Hillary Clinton.

Tiananmen Square, a Ming-era space in front of the Gate of Heavenly Peace, expanded fourfold over the course of the 1950s, as it was laid out with museums, halls and monuments for the new People’s ...

Ben Lerner once described Gerald Murnane’s The Plains (1982) as a ‘bizarre masterpiece that can feel less like something you’ve read than something you’ve dreamed’. Something similar could be said of ...

‘I won’t be able to write from the grave’, the American poet Fanny Howe once wrote, ‘so let me tell you what I love’. The list that follows is brief: brown bread, salt, wine, a windy day, intimacy ...

‘It’s a good sign when a movie sends us out wanting to know more, and feeling that there is more to know.’ That was Pauline Kael, writing on Frederick Wiseman’s High School in 1969. Her rave review in ...

In recent days there have been reports that Washington, and perhaps also Tel Aviv, is seeking an off-ramp from the current war with Iran. What options might such an exit involve? And how realistic do ...

Here is a conundrum. While stock exchanges across the world react nervously to the onslaught on Iran, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is booming. Here is another: while millions of people in the region ...

Four years after the so-called full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it is very hard to disentangle oneself from all the clichés, lies and reflexes in which the war is enmeshed. I have never lived through a ...

A surprising transformation has swept the political culture of the rich world over the past decade and a half. In the fallout from the financial crisis, the rise of the Tea Party, the Indignados, the ...