The first review of Roberto Schwarz and World Literature, by Mario Sergio Conti for the Folha de S.Paulo (Folha de S.Paulo): "Um livro britânico sobre Roberto Schwarz fala em urdu da China e Beethoven" www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/marios…

I interviewed Bev Best about her book, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital (Verso Books). Up now at Endnotes. endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o-b…

I've got a short review of Irene Small's great new book on Lygia Clark and modernism in this month's issue of The Brooklyn Rail. Check it out here: brooklynrail.org/2025/04/art_bo…

Some reflections on the new Gillian Rose lectures for Critical Inquiry criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/thomas_waller_…

The psyche is structured like the commodity or Is the automatic subject of value in the room with us right now? By Luke Manzarpour redclinic.org/texts/the-psyc…

For the new New Left Review, I translated this interview with Brazilian giant Roberto Schwarz on his neo-Brechtian play about the strange rise of the right: newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/a…

.thomas waller on Jaleh Mansoor’s “Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction” up now at e-flux Criticism: e-flux.com/notes/6783374/…

For e-flux, I wrote about Jaleh Mansoor’s new book and Marx’s metaphor of “universal prostitution” e-flux.com/notes/6783374/…

I reviewed the latest translation of Brazilian architect Sérgio Ferro's writings for this month's The Brooklyn Rail MACK brooklynrail.org/2025/10/art_bo…

Very happy to hear that my essay on Freud and mourning is a joint winner of the 2023-2024 Paragraph prize. The piece is available to read for free via the link below: euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.33…

About to go on Lacan in Scotland for a talk on Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism with thomas waller. Feel free to join and share your thoughts, too.

Speaking on a couple of panels at the Historical Materialism Journal conference this week in London

Mondrian’s Firebomb: Avant-Garde and Underdevelopment in Brazil, with Thomas Waller (thomas waller) Friday 12th December, 2025 5.30-7.30pm UCL IAS @ucl-ias.bsky.social Common Ground G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL Gower St, London WC1E 6BT ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…