In NLR 72, SeptemberâOctober 2011 http://newleftreview.org/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR72
* Mike Davis on the electrifying protests of 2011âthe on-going Arab spring, the âhotâ Iberian and Hellenic summers, the âoccupiedâ fall in the United States. Against a backdrop of world economic slump, what forces will shape the outcome of contests between a crisis-raddled system and its emergent challengers? http://newleftreview.org/?view=2923&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR72 * Three years on from 2008, Atlantic economies remain mired in unemployment and stagnation. Robin Blackburn diagnoses the underlying causes of the crisis as global over-capacity, deficient demand and anarchic credit creation, and explores proposals for a genuine exit from it to the left. http://newleftreview.org/?view=2925&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR72 Also in NLR 72 * Stathis Kouvelakis on why Greece has proved the weakest link in the Eurozone. Contours of the post-dictatorship model, and the popular mobilizations that have arisen within its ruins. http://newleftreview.org/?view=2924&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR72 * Ai Xiaoming on the role of documentary in Chinaâs civil-rights campaigns. http://newleftreview.org/?view=2926&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR72 * Against the vast claims made for the wider applicability of Darwinian concepts, Kenta Tsuda offers a penetrating critique of selection theory. http://newleftreview.org/?view=2927&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR72 * Perry Anderson pays tribute to Lucio Magri, an outstanding figure of the European Left. http://newleftreview.org/?view=2928&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR72 * Pascale Casanova considers national literatures as competing entities within an agonistic world of letters. http://newleftreview.org/?view=2929&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR72 * Susan Watkins remembers Peter Campbell, the artist, typographer and writer who redesigned NLR. http://newleftreview.org/?view=2930&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR72 Book Reviews * Hung Ho-fung on Carl Walter and Fraser Howie, Red Capitalism. Two Wall Street China hands assess the PRCâs transition from plan to market. http://newleftreview.org/?view=2931&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR72 * Andrea Boltho on Barry Eichengreen, Exorbitant Privilege. The dollarâs long reign as global reserve currency and prospects for its continued hegemony. http://newleftreview.org/?view=2932&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR72 * Alexander Beecroft on Sheldon Pollock, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men. The millennial shift from holy to vernacular languages in South Asia. http://newleftreview.org/?view=2933&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR72 NLR 72 will be mailed out to subscribers by 22 December 2011. Available at all good book stores and libraries. To unsubscribe or change your email preferences, log in to your account on the NLR website and click "Manage your email options" http://newleftreview.org/?account=1&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR72&utm_content=unsubscribe
