Other Worlds : Selections from New Left Review

Contents: Preface. 1. Future unknown/Gopal Balakrishnan. 2. Rendezvous at Mumbai/Achin Vanaik. 3. The duckbilled platypus/Francisco De Oliveira. 4. Politics of Utopia/Fredric Jameson. 5. River of time/Perry Anderson. 6. Fire at the castle gate/Wang Hui. 7. India in the mirror of world fiction/Francesca Orsini. 8. Collision in Venezuela/Gregory Wilpert. 9. Managing the avant-garde/Matthew Jesse Jackson. 10. Ruins of the future/Lu Xinyu. 11. Literature as a world/Pascale Casanova. 12. Monsoon risings/Chittaroopa Palit. 13. Russia\'s modernist master/Tony Wood. 14. Digital Commons/Julian Stallabrass. 15. Dark side of the Chinese moon/Yang Lian. 16. On the wild coast/Susanna Hecht. 17. Mizrahi wanderings/Nancy Hawker. Notes on contributors.

"Each volume in this series brings together a collection of articles, reviews, essays and interviews from New Left Review -- a key journal of the international left. The books aim to cover a wide variety of issues ranging from world politics and the global economy; state powers and protest movements; contemporary social theory; history and philosophy; cinema and literature; heterodox art and aesthetics."