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Stuart Hall (with Bill Schwarz): Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands. London: Allen Lane 2017. 978-0-241-28999-0

The renowned cultural theorist Stuart Hall, who died on 10 February, was the first editor of NLR. Stepping down in 1962, he continued to play an outstanding role in the broader New Left for the rest of his life. Stuart made decisive contributions to cultural theory and interpretation, yet a political impulse-involving both a political challenge to dominant cultural patterns and a cultural challenge to hegemonic politics-pervades his work. His exemplary investigations came close to inventing a new field of study, 'cultural studies'; in his vision, the new discipline was profoundly political in inspiration and radically interdisciplinary in character. Wrestling with his own identity as a West Indian-born anti-imperialist in Oxford, London and Birmingham, he evolved into his own style of Marxist. Author or coauthor of a hundred texts, subject of scores of interviews, keynote speaker at many dozens of conferences, co-founder of three journals, he managed to be strikingly original and always distinctively himself. He bore nearly two decades of illness with amazing stoicism, exhibiting a tenacious hold on life and intense curiosity about the future; and helped in all this by his companion of nearly fifty years, the historian Catherine Hall. Adapted from the source document.