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Martin Eve on Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game.

Martin Eve on Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game This week, I’ve been reading Hermann Hesse’s final novel, The Glass Bead Game [1943; in translation to English], which I am ashamed to say that I had not read before (we’re all learning). Set in an unspecified

Joseph Brooker on reading the New Left Review

Joseph Brooker on reading the New Left Review. The New Left Review is a journal of leftist thought founded in the early 1960s. In 2000 it relaunched with a slightly different look – glossy, sleek, elegant, but still uniquely rigorous and austere. Not only does it