Contraventions: Editorials From New Left Review

An anthology of 20 years of New Left Review editorials. A good journal is marked out by the heterodoxy of its opinions. Since its relaunch at the turn of the century, New Left Review has published some three dozen editorials on contemporary world politics, economics and culture, each departing from conventional positions from Clinton s sanctions stranglehold on pre-2003 Iraq to the pieties of the Middle East peace process and nuclear non-proliferation regime; from New Labour s bien pensant Third Way to the meaning of Donald Trump as well as tracking counter-movements from street to ballot box, the Arab Spring to the Cinque Stelle. This collection brings together a selection of NLR s output in these years of US unipolarity and late-capitalist boom and bust, bookended by surveys from 2000 and 2020 reviewing the political-intellectual conjuncture in which the journal is publishing, and the prospects for its - and the wider left s - continued renewal.