The House That Marx Built
The incomplete or fragmentary state of Marxism is a sign of its ongoing life. It remains unfinished because so does history.
Winter 2024
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Dystopia and the End of Politics
In retrospect, the nineties can seem an anomalous decade, the only one since the Second World War when technological civilization did not appear particularly bent on self-destruction. Of course, not everyone greeted the end of the cold war as the …
Morality as Style 
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million by Martin Amis Talk Miramax, 2002, 306 pp., $24.95 All novelists are Stylists, but only a few are known chiefly for having what Vladimir Nabokov called “a fancy prose style.” Over the …
Societies of Mutual Isolation
Blindness by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero Harcourt Brace, 1998 293 pp $22 All the Names by José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa Harcourt Brace, 2000 238 pp $24 The twentieth century was the era of …
Wresting Freedom from Necessity
The Fierce and Beautiful World by Andrei Platonov, translated by Joseph Barnes, introduction by Tatyana Tolstaya New York Review Books, 2000, 288 pp., $12.95 In Andrei Platonov’s novel The Foundation Pit, Nastya—a beautiful and precociously ideological, kulak-baiting little girl on …
