Joel Schalit / 26 Sep 2022
The Week Before the Election
Photographing Italian Politics
Few Italian elections since the turn of the millennium have felt more like the twentieth century than this one.(...)
Politics
Josh White / 19 Sep 2022
Capitalists Never Lie
Why Read The Financial Times
Above the entrance of Bracken House, sits the face of Winston Churchill, set in a gold sunburst on an astrological clock.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 06 Jul 2022
Working Through History
Folk on Acid, by OOPUS
If you stumbled upon Estonian band OOPUS at a festival, where many different acts are on the schedule, it might take you a few minutes to realize how special they are.(...)
John Foster / 27 May 2022
The Bad Influencers
A World After Liberalism, by Matthew Rose
In the aptly titled A World After Liberalism, Matthew Rose presents a series of close readings of reactionary thinkers who helped shape today’s far-right.(...)
John Foster / 25 Mar 2022
Diversity Without Nationalism
Heaven in Disorder, by Slavoj Žižek
One is always a bit apprehensive when cracking the latest publication by the eminent Slovenian curmudgeon Slavoj Žižek.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 09 Feb 2022
German Labour Music
Songs of Gastarbeiter Vol. 2
To begin a compilation of decades-old tracks with a remix is a bold move. But Songs of Gastarbeiter Vol. 2 deploys it brilliantly. (...)
Joel Schalit / 08 Feb 2022
Reading Propaganda Posters
Fratelli d’Italia in Torino
They had a different Italy in mind. But the mistake in ad placement was still telling.(...)
Oliver Sheppard / 02 Feb 2022
Reappraising Steady Diet of Nothing
The 30th Anniversary of Fugazi’s Most Underrated LP
"Though the album is a bit of a 'sleeper’ in many people’s eyes (ears?)," Ian MacKaye recently wrote to me, "the songs on that album were probably played by us live more than the others over the years”.(...)