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Melania Is Far-Right Propaganda. Thankfully, Nobody’s Buying It

Juliet Jacques

The white supremacist classic The Birth of a Nation was such effective filmmaking that it revived the Ku Klux Klan. Melania Trump’s cack-handed Amazon documentary has got a few Republicans excited, but little more than that, writes Juliet Jacques.

Novara Media’s Best Books of 2024

Aaron Bastani & Ash Sarkar

There’s little worse than wasting your time on a bad book, and little more rewarding than getting it right. Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar share their top reads of the year.

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Blitz Is Steve McQueen’s Most Conventional Film to Date – and That’s No Bad Thing

Juliet Jacques

The former Turner Prize-winning artist’s latest work is racial history masquerading as a chocolate-box depiction of the second world war, writes Juliet Jacques.

Asif Kapadia Doesn’t Know What He’s Trying to Say

Juliet Jacques

The director's new film 2073 gestures at social ills but struggles to name culprits, let alone solutions. The result is to induce despair rather than prompt action, writes Juliet Jacques.

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The Zone of Interest Reminds Us How Easy It Is to Ignore a Genocide on Your Doorstep

Juliet Jacques

Jonathan Glazer’s latest film follows a Nazi family living in Auschwitz’s backyard. It couldn’t be timelier, writes Juliet Jacques.

The New ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’ Doesn’t Just Preach to the Converted

Juliet Jacques

By transposing the Italian play to London in the 2020s, Daniel Raggett’s new production is a memorable piece of consciousness-raising, argues Juliet Jacques.

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Can We Solve the Climate Crisis Without Ending Capitalism?

Aaron Bastani

Bill Gates has written a book on how to avoid climate catastrophe. He claims that capitalism, with a historic dose of state intervention, can help us rapidly decarbonise. He might be wrong, but in approaching ‘net zero’ as an engineering problem - rather than a political question - he offers an important perspective from which the left can benefit.

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