Jamie Mackay (@JacMackay) is a writer, translator and critic based in Florence. His essays on art and politics have appeared in magazines and cultural journals across Europe including Frieze, the London Review of Books and Internazionale. He is the Italy correspondent for Krytyka Polityczna and the author of The Invention of Sicily, which is forthcoming from Verso books.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From sardines to a new language of politics? An interview with Paul GinsborgOn the doldrums in which the Italian Left has languished for many years, and the new democratic energies which have...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?50 years since the Piazza Fontana bombing and Italy is still facing-up to its ‘years of lead’Half a century has passed since one of the darkest moments in the history of the republic, yet the state’s own role...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?European identity and the paradox of anti-communismThe European Parliament’s conflation of Soviet Communism and Nazi-Fascism, says more about the present paranoia...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Transnational collaboration among independent media: an interview with Jamie MackayWhat we want to build is something counter-hegemonic, where we are accountable only to our readers, and committed to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Corbyn surge was no fantasy. But what does it mean for the UK?The so-called Corbyn surge, which pundits have tried to spin as a fiction invented to sell papers, revealed itself...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBlimey, it could be Brexit! Download Anthony Barnett's on-line bookIntroducing the ebook available here as a free PDF that foresaw Brexit was possible, and was written weekly for oD...