Through exploring points of contact between Jesus of Nazareth, Karl Marx, and Lenin, Roland Boer finds new and richer layers of shared meanings betwen the Bible and communism,... Continue reading
John Green introduces the life of Jack London. There is a hullabaloo around the quincentenary this year of Shakespeare’s death, but Jack London’s centenary appears to have... Continue reading
Diptych of Drones 1. Convenience Killing Over eight thousand miles awayfrom where the devastation wasa zap-happy, kapow-cowboyyeehah’d from his computer screen. A funeral party had diedin the... Continue reading
Professor Gabriel Egan concludes his series on Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s fellow playwright Ben Jonson paid him a compliment that has come to haunt the study of plays from... Continue reading
Gordon Parsons reviews Joe Kelleher’s book on theatre and politics. W. H. Auden’s insisted that all his poetry put together had not saved a single Jew, and... Continue reading
In the second part of his series, Mark Abel asks how Marxists should judge music. In the first part of this series of articles, I argued that... Continue reading
Is there a British band in today’s music industry that definitively reflects or comments on the consequences of Tory austerity? Or one that is a direct reaction... Continue reading
Phil Brett riffs on the political meanings of some great post-punk pop groups. Forty years ago punk exploded into the national conscience, with bands like The Clash,... Continue reading
Derek Wall introduces the life and work of Raymond Williams, and presents a review of a recent book about his politics and writings. Raymond Williams, born in... Continue reading