Haven in a Heartless World tells the well-known story that begins ‘Once upon a time there was a real family . . . ’ and, describing the forces of evil that invaded this citadel, ends with a gloomy ...

The Last Refuge—A Survey of Residential Institutions and Homes for the Aged in England and Wales; Peter Townsend: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 60s. 552 pp. “We have decided to make a great departure in ...

Four years after the so-called full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it is very hard to disentangle oneself from all the clichés, ...

Whatever else it was, this was protest music. Their early material involved lo-fi drum machines, with vocals fighting through ...

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 ...

In his review of The Long Twentieth Century, Robert Pollin advances three surprising criticisms.footnote 1 All three criticisms concern what I have called ‘systemic cycles of accumulation’. These ...

Some time ago, while working on nineteenth-century literary markets, I was struck by how thoroughly British and French novels managed to streamline European cultural consumption: hundreds of thousands ...

Takaichi also appeared to immediately betray the LDP’s promise of ‘change’ by appointing seven scandal-ridden politicians to the Cabinet and just two female state ministers, visibly failing to tackle ...

Historical materialism as a concept for understanding society, past, present and future, is under constant examination, by its adherents as much as by its opponents.footnote ＊ Some of these ...