Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Thursday, April 25, 2024
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 […]
In “The Castle”, Richard Mosse deploys hi-tech thermographic cameras of the kind associated with stealth surveillance by the military. He uses the technology to record moments of life in refugee camps and border crossings along the migration routes into Europe from neighbouring continents. Sean Sheehan The site for […]
In Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus”, language has an unassailable grip on reality. It pictures the world but cannot say how it mirrors reality because we cannot get outside of language to see this mirroring. In his late philosophy, we find the antipode: language has no essence; language-games have different rules and different […]
In “New model island”, Alex Niven is looking for England and he can’t find it. The country existed as a nation state between the tenth and seventeenth centuries but he asks whether the idea of England today has any usefulness as a cultural cause. Sean Sheehan In the […]
Vasily Grossman is one of Russia’s greatest twentieth-century writers, possibly the very best. A new biography tells the story of the life of an author who should be better known and recognised for his achievements. Sean Sheehan Grossman knew only too well the twin horrors of the twentieth […]
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