Following decolonization, the CFA franc was divided into two distinct currency zones, each with its own central bank: the ...

Makers’ Co-operative, which had been founded in 1966 by a group that included the filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin and critic ...

Anna Gréki, who joined the Algerian Communist Party as a teenager and became a combatant in the War of Independence, wrote ...

Alain de Benoist, born in 1943, came from a conservative, petty-bourgeois family in the Loire Valley. His father moved the household to Paris in 1950, and later took a summer house in Dreux, future ...

The ‘Act to Modernize Nationality Law’ has come into force. The law is a way for the German state to move closer to the mouth ...

'Nowadays, national literature doesn’t mean much: the age of world literature is beginning, and everybody should contribute to hasten its advent.’ This was Goethe, of course, talking to Eckermann in ...

The Soviet Union is going through its most radical transformation since the 1930s or, arguably (indeed, as argued by its leaders), since the 1917 Revolution. Many ‘impossibles’ become possible ...

Over the last decade, a series of works offering a comprehensive vision of the state of the world after the end of the Cold War have enlivened the tenor of mainstream intellectual life. These have ...

THE NOVEL. Alan Sillitoe’s brilliant novel has been filmed by the Osborne-Richardson company, with Albert Finney and Shirley Ann Field, directed by Karel Reisz. This two-part review is by Rod Prince I ...

Nearly half a century after its original publication in Germany, Georg Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness footnote 1 has at last become available in English. Those who now read the book for the ...

Iwas profoundly affected as a young man by the primeval rainforest and the savannahs of British Guyana in South America. I travelled as a land surveyor on the coastlands and into the interior for many ...