Photo by Haim Charbit on Unsplash At the end of June 2026 much of Europe experienced its highest recorded temperatures since the 1950s. Cities like Paris approached 41°C, and large parts of the continent were placed under the highest red heat alert. As heatwaves...
Jessica Whyte Adania Shibli, Minor Detail. Trans. Elisabeth Jaquette. (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020) Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a novel made of two stories of violence and domination, separated by more than six decades. In the first, set during the...
Konštantín Bauer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons CLT recently featured a translation of E.B. Pashukanis’ 1929 article “The Right of Asylum and the Practice of Bourgeois Governments,” originally published in the journal MOPR under the auspices of the...
Several weeks ago, UK courts dealt a blow to the legal system in two cases. Both involve the group “Palestine Action”, whose aim is to end global complicity in the genocide in Gaza. The first case involves its proscription as a terrorist...
Strategic optimism as a concept for imagining and transforming justice, politics and resistance It is rare to attend a conference in honour of an author, in the presence of the said author. In all my 25 years of academic experience in both Brazilian, European and UK...
Maria Aristodemou Aaron Schuster, How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science (MIT Press, 2024) The narrator dog of one of Kafka’s short stories, “Investigations of a Dog”, declares that “all knowledge, all questions and all answers are contained...
