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THE Scholarly Journal of the Left
New Left Review (NLR) was first published in 1960. It was the theoretical voice of the English New Left, which fought to dismantle the hegemony of both the ("Western") social democratic and ("Eastern") Stalinist tendencies over the international left. <
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>As such, over the period of four decades, the journal has published the works of authentically radical thinkers, allowing them to engage both current events and deeper theoretical problems within the broad materialist tradition. <
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>With the advent of the year 2000, the editors decided to give the journal a massive image overhaul, and, along with it, a philosophico-political one, taking into account the empirically-evident failure of the left project (USSR, etc.), the emergence of numerous theoretico-political challenges to Marxist orthodoxy (feminism, postmodernism, etc.), and the rise of a powerful breed of right-wing ideologues with mass appeal (Fukuyama, Huntington, etc.). <
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>More recently however, the journal's more apologetic side has taken a backseat to a new dissenting and critical attitude in direct response, presumably, to the turbulence of the Bush years. Contributions are made in a range of topics and disciplines, including economics, political science, philosophy, cultural studies, critical theory, art history, postcolonial studies, cinema studies, and psychoanalysis. In addition, each issue includes socio-political and/or economic dispatches from around the world. Articles and editorials are rounded off by astute, engaging book reviews. The tone and editorial style epitomize the perfect balancing of radicalism and grace. <
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>Contributers include: Fredric Jameson (postmodernism/art/architecture), Slavoj Zizek(psychoanalysis/ideology), Tariq Ali (politics/history), Jean Baudrillard (postmodernism/post-Marxism), Susan Watkins ( politics), Gopal Balakrishnan (political theory), Terry Eagleton (literary theory), Franco Moretti (literary history), Mike Davis (urban theory), Peter Wollen (cinema), Giovanni Arrighi (political theory), and Robert Brenner (economics). <
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SCHOLARLY BUT RADICAL
I started reading the New Left Review after 9/11 when I was still a post-grad at NYU. A few of the Profs bitched about it being too lofty and mandarinesque, but even they read it regularly. There is no other mag quite like it which reports on social movements and debates theory and economics. Giovanni Arrighi's critique of Professor's Brenner's economistic take on the US was intellectually stimulating.The reports on China, India and Latin America are great. The depth is astonishing. If one percent of those who read The Economist switched to the NLR they would become better educated. The editorials, too, are great and the fact that Lewis Lapham reprints some of them in Harper's is a tribute to the quality of writing. The book reviews are uneven though I prefer the more unpredictable reviewers like Bacevich and Gowan rather than the over-solemn and pompous Gopal Balakrishan. I recommend this mag to many friends.

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More ammo please for the war of ideas!
This is the magazine that does the imprint of Verso books, notable publishers of such writers as Tariq Ali, Perry Anderson, Fredric Jameson, Peter Gowan, Immanuel Wallerstein, et al., who likewise appear here. The general viewpoint of the writers assumes a vaguely Marxist tack, yet the articles are never monolithic or reductivist. Rather, they are insightful and well-written without an over-reliance on that technobabble that turns so many off to modern critical theory. The essays in this mag address economics, literature, foreign policy, semiotics, pop culture; in short, they take an intelligent look at the world around us, early 21st century as it is happening, and try to give the reader some more ammo to take into battle against the sleepwalking fools who believe everything they see on Fox news. An educated body politic can do no harm and a lot of good weighing the ideas discussed within the 100-plus bimonthly pages of this wonderful magazine. The only problem is that it doesn't arrive on your doorstep more often than that... meanwhile, you can go wade through some more Wallerstein or Armstrong on the development of world systems...