Art is for making games’, he writes, ‘that’s the message for today’. But even among his admirers it feels as if there’s a lingering misconception about Raworth: that because his work is funny, ...

If only the lords of Silicon Valley had read their Aftalion, who had compared the rhythm of investment to people stacking ...

Peking and Moscow.Klaus Mehnert. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 50s. Dr Mehnert enjoys a considerable reputation both in his native West Germany and in the United States, as an expert on Communist ...

Anything that was shown—American, Japanese, Hong Kong: whatever. By my teens there was a terrific range of films you could see in Taipei, because the Nationalist government set up a number of ...

Three things have won conventional wars in this century; greater reserves of manpower, greater industrial potential and a reasonably functioning system of civilian administration. The strategy of the ...

Economy and Society in Prehistoric Europe consists of twenty papers written by Andrew Sherratt over the past quarter of a century.footnote ＊ Taken together, these articles represent a uniquely ...

leonard schapiro’s recent book is the first general history of the Soviet Communist Party by a Western scholar, and it contains a great deal of information not previously available in English. It is ...

For the last 46 years the Communist Party has played a part in left-wing politics in Britain out of all proportion to its membership and electoral support. Other left-wing Socialist groups, ...

In his highly praised History of Russian Literature, Mirsky delivers a severe judgment on the Russian Formalist Movement (1915—30) which is now once again, at least in the ‘West’, attracting great ...

What is the status of scientific truth-claims? Can they purport to hold good for all time across vastly differing contexts of language, culture, and society? That is to say: is science in the business ...

Nazim Hikmet spent one third of his adult life fighting for a socialist revolution in his native Turkey, one third in jail and one third in exile. Now he is dead. Very few in Britain can have felt ...