NLR 61 Newsletter

[New Left Review]

Title: New Left Review

1960–2010 Fiftieth Anniversary Issue In NLR 61, January–February 2010 As NLR enters its sixth decade, Susan Watkins asks what remains of the neo-liberal order after the implosion of 2008—with what implications for a journal of the left? Mike Davis argues that green urbanism’s twining of social equality and ecological sustainability could offer an alternative starting-point to Copenhagen’s charades. Teri Reynolds reports from an Oakland Emergency Department, testifying to the stark inequalities in the US health system. Perry Anderson examines the Russian and Chinese revolutions—and their opposed outcomes after 1989—in comparative perspective. Tariq Ali asks what has changed in US foreign policy since the departure of Bush. Franco Moretti on the flexible morality of the bourgeois fin-de-siècle, as captured by the obscure misdeeds of Ibsen’s protagonists. NLR interviews Eric Hobsbawm on the major world developments in world history since the end of ‘Age of Extremes’. Robin Blackburn explores the fate of American radicalism amid the sharpening class struggles of the Gilded Age. NLR’s founding editor Stuart Hall recalls the emergence of the first British New Left out of the double conjuncture of 1956—Hungary and Suez. Book Reviews Anders Stephanson on Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti and Universal History. Did the Weltgeist drop anchor in revolutionary Saint-Domingue? Gopal Balakrishnan on Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History. Consoling homilies for today’s liberal imperialists. Aaron Benanav on Jan Breman, The Poverty Regime in Village India. A sociologist explores the life-world of informal labour. NLR 61 was mailed out to subscribers on 25th January 2010. Available at all good book stores and libraries. 6 Meard St, London W1F 0EG, +44 20 7734 8830, m...@newleftreview.org, www.newleftreview.org