New Crisis Quarterly

Paul arrives in Budapest to give a lecture, but finds himself seeking an elusive woman, and increasingly caught up in some odd connections between football hooliganism, a mafia protection racket, a...

Mark arrives in Rome to take down an exhibition of his paintings but they have all been stolen. Is it simple theft or a scam, and why are Christian fundamentalists, a mysterious old hermit, and...

Dave and Kate arrive in Venice as strangers, for very different reasons, until a sequence of bizarre events bring them uneasily together. But are they confronting blackmail, terrorism, radical...

From 'Lit.Crit.' to the digital future...These various pieces trace a trajectory from a concern with problems of traditional literary criticism, through an often reluctant engagement with a variety...

Can a mere stage play attempt to do adequate justice to the controversial theories and complex life of the great Charles Darwin...? Absolutely not. So, instead, enjoy this constantly mutating romp...

Drama and democracy are critically entwined. This book considers some of the interconnections. A posthumous letter to Raymond Williams asks questions about his neglected television plays. The...

A series of attempted answers to a suitably challenging mock-examination paper probe the curious relations between various literary works and the specific procedures, problems, and dilemmas of the...

The merging of politics and religion today occurs mainly as various fundamentalisms, those of right-wing American Christians, Islamic radicals, or Israeli Zionists. Back in the 1960s, a different...

Tom Brady is due to give his last-ever lecture, in one of his favourite cities, magical Prague. But he hadn't reckoned with a feisty old lady, a highly secret society, an international scam, and the...

This short book offers three accessible essays. Joyce's Boarding House shows how the use of language in Dubliners might justify his claim for the book as a chapter in the moral history of Ireland...

W. B. Yeats's short poem 'Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation' may be only a minor work in the Yeats canon, but, in an unusually challenging exercise in literary criticism, it is here taken...

These selected essays, ranging from a Bakhtinian study of John Skelton (d. 1529) to a sympathetic critique of Raymond Williams (d.1988), explore a variety of relations between literature and...

The success of Christianity in the Roman Empire was also the harsh defeat of a much older religion. Egypt in the 4th century was the battleground. Christians were also split among themselves, with...

So what were those F16s doing low over Cambridge? Why did the Norfolk coast move in the night? Or strange stars suddenly start blinking on the screens of SETI? Could Frank, in his hi-tech wheelchair,...