Martin first attracted widespread attention for her extraordinary memoir Croire au fauves (2019), published in English as In the Eye of the Wild (2021),in a translation by Sophie Lewis. I read it in ...

In recent years the concept of attention has garnered considerable – well – attention. It has become, we are told, a commodity within the ‘attention economy’, a limited resource over which advertisers ...

In 2003 the chief demands were the resignation of President Sánchez de Lozada; abrogation of a law criminalizing social ...

It seems logical that no major players in the world economy would want to remain dependent on the currency of an erratic ...

At Raven Row.

India, of course, has generally been more corrupt than the US. Its Transparency International ranking in 2025 was 91. But the ...

In many respects, today’s crisis resembles that of the 1930s, as described by Karl Polanyi in The Great Transformation.footnote 1 Now, as then, a relentless push to extend and de-regulate markets is ...

Ralph Miliband’s recently published work, The State in Capitalist Society,footnote 1 is in many respects of capital importance. The book is extremely substantial, and cannot decently be summarized in ...

Giovanni Arrighi’s The Geometry of Imperialism (NLB, 1978) is an effort by a well-known Italian Marxist economist to deal critically with the Leninist theory of imperialism. That theory, as Arrighi ...