Review | 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
The latest in a series of British horror films subverts expectations.
Review | Other Rivers and Private Revolutions
Two new books highlight the huge changes that have taken place in Chinese society in the last three decades.
Review | A Philosophical History of Police Power
Niklas Rosen reviews Melayna Kay Lamb’s book on police power.
Review | Or Something Worse
To tackle climate breakdown, workers and communities must seize control of the environmental transition
2025 Cultural Highlights: Music
As the year draws to a close, rs21 members review their music highlights of 2025
2025 Cultural Highlights
As the year draws to a close, rs21 members review their cultural highlights of 2025
Review | Emergency Exits exhibition
The Imperial War Museum’s ‘Emergency Exits’ explores Britain’s violent retreat from empire and the brutality of colonial rule
Review | Backstage of the care economy
This new book provides an in depth of the working of the global care economy
Review | Overreach: how China derailed its peaceful rise
Overreach is written from within the US establishment and provides insight into why the US sees China as a mortal enemy
Review | I Swear
Colin Revolting reviews I Swear, a film about the life of Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson
Review | The Starmer symptom
Pat Stack reviews Mark Perryman’s essay collection on Starmer’s betrayals and Labour’s deepening crisis
Review | The Arcana of Reproduction
Kika Hendry reviews the new translation of Leopoldina Fortunati’s The Arcana of Reproduction.
Review | Lifeline to Freedom
Leftist Czech refugees to Britain in the 1930s had to cope with hostility from the British government, but also the zigzags of the Communist line laid down in Moscow.
Review | Red Flags
A new book distinguishes the liberation of October 1917 from state repression under Stalin and Mao.
Review | Enemy Feminisms
Sophie Lewis’ new book is a mini-encyclopaedia of TERFs, policewomen and girlbosses.
Review | Andor, Season 2
Rebellion against an empire complicit in genocide – in Star Wars, now a Disney brand. On the complexities of Andor.
Review | The Penguin Lessons
A review of Steve Coogan’s new film which is set in the context of 1970s Argentina under the repression of the military junta
Review | All In: a revolutionary theory to stop climate collapse
A review of ‘All In’ which argues for a revolutionary strategy as global temperatures continue to rise.
Review | Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood
How does the state shape who gets to mother, who suffers, and who survives?
Review | Mickey 17
Boon Jong-Ho’s new film Mickey 17 uses science fiction to shine a light on our world
Review | Monstrous Anger of the Guns
A new work unpacks the global arms industry and how to fight it.
Review | Hard Graft
Kika Hendry reviews the Wellcome Collection’s exhibition Hard Graft, which explores the relationship between work and health tracing through histories of exploitation, oppression and resistance.
Review | Disaster Nationalism
Richard Seymour’s recent book Disaster Nationalism can help us understand what’s happening as Trump’s second term accelerates the growth of the far right internationally.