In Britain, the history of public provision is a history of austerity. From the earliest experiments with ‘public works’ in ...

Raymond Williams and I arrived in Cambridge simultaneously in 1961, he from a long stint in adult education to a college Fellowship, I from a year’s teaching in a Northern secondary modern school to ...

During this year’s protests against the Eurozone’s austerity measures—in Greece and, on a smaller scale, Ireland, Italy and Spain—two stories have imposed themselves.footnote 1 The predominant, ...

Within the circles influenced by and sympathetic to postmodernism there has of late been discussion as to how long an engagement with traditional criteria of truth and value can be deferred.footnote 1 ...

A man dressed in white with yellow butterflies pinned to his shirt is doing a dramatic reading from Cien años. He has a ...

Roughly the first half of Literary Criticism is taken up with telling the history of this double loss; in the second half of the book (which consists of a single chapter, ‘The Critical Unconscious’, ...

An English version of Witold Kula’s book has been long overdue.footnote 1 Although its Italian translation has been available for some time, the book has not been as well known to western readers as ...

What is the status of scientific truth-claims? Can they purport to hold good for all time across vastly differing contexts of language, culture, and society? That is to say: is science in the business ...

The title of your novel Do Everything in the Dark (2003) comes from Swift: ‘Do all in the dark (as clean glasses, etc.) to ...

There could be dozens, hundreds of similar projects that work with the grain of proletarian spaces, with their existing users. But since any break with Thatcher-Blair-Cameron-Johnson-Sunak housing ...

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