NEW LEFT REVIEW 160 LAUNCH

Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans

Tom Mertes on Richard Beck, Homeland. Origins and afterlives of America’s long War on Terror.

Researchers urge governments to help worst afflicted countries, such as Nigeria and Algeria, which rely on oil revenues for public services

NLR 160, July–August 2026. Includes articles by Perry Anderson, Julian Stallabrass, Donald Sassoon, Benjamin Kunkel, Mao Jian, Ilya Budraitskis, Carlo Ginzburg, Perry Anderson and Mario del Pero

As globalization stalls, what possibilities might national-economic policy open up for the left? Benjamin Kunkel weighs the claims of its Marxist, Polanyian and psychoanalytic interpreters, asking whe...

From city councils to Congress, homeowners have always dominated elected office. But after Mamdani’s victory, a slew of candidates want to follow in his footsteps.

FT analysis identifies 12 accounts on platform that made large well-timed wagers just ahead of start of conflict

The future of Dallas City Hall is too important to be decided in shady back-room dealings or on numbers no one trusts. Contact your council person today! Save Dallas City Hall!

The long read: I suffered with my mystery illness for decades before gaining a diagnosis. Could retraining my brain be the answer?

A new national survey finds 70% of Americans think the Trump administration is too focused on deportations. Immigration enforcement ranks as a top driver of defection among Trump's own 2024 voters.

The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

A short story by Daniel Lefferts: “Last summer my friend Andrew and I spent a few days in Fort Lauderdale.”

Betwixt and between is a strange place for any major writer to be more than a decade and a half after their death, and...

Amid cinema’s decline, two new books by A. S. Hamrah resist defeatism.

From “The Crying Lot of 49” to his latest noirs, the American novelist has always proceeded along a track strangely parallel to our own.

‘I had slept with her back in college and several times afterward, as presumptive grown-ups, only out of some masculine obligingness which I’ve never seen described in fiction’

Beloved characters are killed. Romances, too. But a subset of fan-fiction writers are taking matters into their own hands, “fixing” perceived wrongs.

The president wants to balance U.S. trade deficits? He can’t do it without this industry he hates.

Reading a new translation of Capital