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Diana Darke’s brilliant history of medieval architecture reveals the extent of Islamic influence on the foundational phase of Western European art and buildings, finds Dominic Alexander.

CAL MCBRIDE recommends that you follow a coming-of-age trans story through harrowing lows to a point of optimistic triumph.

The Philippines’ most famous leftist couple is the subject of a stirring new documentary.

This entertaining Wes Anderson satire on imperialist scheming combines a slightly weak plot with clever characterisation but is mysterious in its intention and timing, finds Lucy Nichols.

John Perry reviews the book AMERICA, AMÉRICA: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin.

The pro-Palestine movement has never been more prominent in the West, but Western governments and corporations are still committed to the success of the Zionist project.

‘The Ethics of Belief,’ an 1877 essay by Cambridge mathematician and philosopher William K. Clifford, begins with the story of a fictional shipowner whose seagoing vessel, he himself acknowledges, might not be as sound as should be.

Martin Heidegger was arguably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century.

“Everything gives way and nothing stands fast.” —Heraclitus, as quoted in Plato’s Cratylus1 During the “Age of Catastrophe” (1919–45), a series of profound economic, political, and ideological crises disrupted what had appeared to be the “normal” functioning of capitalism.2 In 1930, a key moment of this “age,” marked by the economic catastrophe of the Great […]

Jennifer Berkshire has been writing insightfully about the rightwing attacks on public schools and on education for many years. S

Videogames are everywhere.

Sadowski’s book based on the This Machine Kills podcast is an incisive and important demolition of illusions around technology and AI, argues Kevin Crane.

While most recent class satires have focused on the perspective of the wealthy, Lawrence Lamont and Syreeta Singleton’s film debut brings class-conscious comedy back to its roots.

A science fiction novel about the future of nature and technology reviewed by Ian Parker.

Writer and journalist Karan Madhok’s book ‘Ananda’ is a deep-dive into the cannabis plant–what it is, what it does, and how Indian society looks at and reacts to it.

The Bob Dylan biopic is finely acted and captures the aspects of the musician impressively, but not the full political power of the songs, finds Jonathan Maunders.

In January 2024, the World Economic Forum predicted that by 2050 climate change will cause 14.5 million deaths and $12.5 trillion in damage.

Thought-provoking and polemical as ever, the recent publication of Domenico Losurdo’s “Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn”, finally provides English readers with access to the prolific Italian philosopher and militant’s penultimate book.

In this excerpt from Mike Davis’s classic book ‘The Ecology of Fear’, he explores the tinderbox of the wealthy “Los Angeles frontiers” and the massive public resources dedicated to keep it from igniting.

RICHARD CLARKE applauds the assertion that Western Marxism represents a withdrawal from action to change the world into the academy.