This book, “Letter to Bruno Manser”, is a memorial to Bruno Manser and it begins with a photograph of the mountain that marks his last known location, before he vanished in 2000,  and a letter: “Dear Bruno, if only you knew how many of your friends looked for you at […]

There are lessons to learn from the current pandemic and one of them – the need for radical thinking, authority and discipline – underlies Žižek’s recent articles in the public media. They have been substantially rewritten for “A left that dares to speak its name”.   Sean Sheehan   He […]

If you love Jane Austen and want to form your own club of like-minded devotees,  Janine Barchas is someone who has to receive an invitation. In “The lost books of Jane Austen” – oh that there were! – she tracks the history of the novels’ publications over the course of […]

As a narrative, “Animalia” is about the four generations of a farming family in southwest France, from 1898 to 1981, but this is only the novel’s bare skin. Underneath it is a horrifying tour de force about the business of farming, killing and eating animals.   Sean Sheehan   Given […]

The deep-rooted appeal of the Jack Reacher novels is no big secret and, if you believe Amazon’s page about their author, Lee Child, every nine seconds another one of them is sold.   Sean Sheehan   Reacher embodies vengeance with a social conscience. In the early novels Reacher succeeds through […]