Spectres of ValueOver the past forty years, the scholar John Frow has offered a sustained investigation of the concept of value. Reviewing Frow’s latest book, Julian Murphet considers a world without value and its commensuration of the incommensurable.22 May. 2026
Mother Goose in PurgatoryIn his review of British poet Keston Sutherland’s most recent book, Julian Murphet delves into the history of the meditation as a literary form as well as the significance of geese to the development of European literary culture.20 Mar. 2025
Named and Nameless OthersMost fiction treats workers as fully external creatures, carrying their physicality as a symbol of their position within the division of labour; Weiss presents them as the authentic bearers of our collective human cultural destiny. It is a questio...29 Mar. 2020
E.L. Doctorow’s ‘Floating Worlds’Doctorow’s America was whatever was left of FDR’s New Deal, battered and parceled out and sold to the highest bidder; or it was what made the New Deal necessary in the first place: vicious corporate monopolies, union-bashing, tycoons, and so on.24 Nov. 2015
