https://newleftreview.org/feed Articles from the latest issue of New Left Review. en-gb mail@newleftreview.org web@newleftreview.org In which direction is America heading, amid the strategic cacophony of Trump’s second term—counter-revolution in the Caribbean, onslaught on Iran, somersaults on China? Analysis of the political logics at stake as the US ratchets up from covert to overt assassinations; from wars of attrition to wars of overthrow. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/susan-watkins-trump-abroad https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/susan-watkins-trump-abroad 2026-03-03 00:00:00 UTC United States Political Theory and Strategy New Left Review: current issue One of modern Iran’s leading historians provides a critical anatomy of the power structures of the Islamic Republic, on the eve of war—and a scathing denunciation of the long-incubated American-Israeli assault on the country, calculated to bring about Syria-style disintegration and civil war. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/ervand-abrahamian-iran-under-fire https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/ervand-abrahamian-iran-under-fire 2026-03-03 00:00:00 UTC Iran New Left Review: current issue Where might Chinese-language readers hungry for critical histories and marginalized voices find such books? A history of Sinosphere publishing, charting the relationship between Hong Kong and the Mainland within a broader media ecology from the Revolution to the present. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/ruochen-xi-in-search-of-good-books https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/ruochen-xi-in-search-of-good-books 2026-03-03 00:00:00 UTC China Literature New Left Review: current issue A critical-analytical portrait of Southeast Asia’s answer to Trump, as the Indonesian President—formerly the Suharto dictatorship’s crown prince and chief butcher in East Timor—re-centralizes power in the archipelago, strengthening the Army’s place within the civil administration. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/rohana-kuddus-prabowo-s-year-one https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/rohana-kuddus-prabowo-s-year-one 2026-03-03 00:00:00 UTC Indonesia New Left Review: current issue Topography of the contemporary world economy as a system of subordination, structured by the primacy of Fed-backed dollar-liquidity and a world division of labour jointly configured by productive and financial capital, generating forms of peripheral financialization. Monetary dominance—ultimately underwritten by military force? https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/costas-lapavitsas-a-topography-of-the-new-dollar-imperialism https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/costas-lapavitsas-a-topography-of-the-new-dollar-imperialism 2026-03-03 00:00:00 UTC World Economy and Globalization Economic Theory New Left Review: current issue Tony Wood on Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, Las cartas del Boom. Correspondence between four titans of the midcentury Latin American novel. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/tony-wood-a-bolivarian-republic-of-letters https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/tony-wood-a-bolivarian-republic-of-letters 2026-03-03 00:00:00 UTC Latin America and the Caribbean Literature New Left Review: current issue Nausicaa Renner on Paul Heideman, Rogue Elephant. Hollowed-out parties and capitalist sectoralization said to underlie the Trumpian capture of the GOP. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/nausicaa-renner-party-and-class https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/nausicaa-renner-party-and-class 2026-03-03 00:00:00 UTC United States Political Theory and Strategy New Left Review: current issue Emilie Bickerton on Michael Witt, Jean-Luc Godard’s Unmade and Abandoned Projects. A ‘negative’ history that sheds new light on the master filmmaker. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/emilie-bickerton-subterranean-godard https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii157/articles/emilie-bickerton-subterranean-godard 2026-03-03 00:00:00 UTC Aesthetics New Left Review: current issue