Revisionist Histories: On Hannah Regel’s “The Last Sane Woman”
In revisionist feminist art and literary histories, a premium is placed on the young, suicidal woman
What was Ukraine?: On Volodymyr Ishchenko’s “Towards the Abyss”
Ishchenko argues that the burden of the post-Soviet left is debatably its greatest asset: that people remember how it felt to be part of communism’s utopian project, and that before today’s war, a strong plurality of Ukrainians felt ambivalent about, not hostile to, its cause.
After Populism: On Borriello and Jäger’s “The Populist Moment”
The material conditions that underpinned social democracy have disappeared. Against this backdrop, left populism constitutes a sincere, but plaintive, desire for the lost world to return.
