Sometimes, after I take a nap, I wake up, and wonder where I am, and what’s happening. It takes a few moments for memory to kick in. Steve Latham I feel like that with Covid. I blurrily try to work out what’s going on now, as the scene […]
In Focus
In Focus
Church vs. State
Why European courts don’t cut churches much slack during confinement. Darrin Burgess When Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York ordered a second wave of lockdowns last October to stem the contagion of Covid-19, he evoked the now-familiar distinction between essential and non-essential venues, and put severe restrictions on […]
Sentences: style and substance
For the last quarter of a century Brian Dillon has been copying sentences into the back pages of whatever notebook he happened to be using for some other purpose. Sean Sheehan He has amassed scores of these notebooks and their back pages provide the basis for the […]
Brutality and impunity in gender violence
Between 1st April and 13th November of this year in the Dominican Republic, between, 40 women, including six minors, lost their lives at the hands of their partners. Covid-19 and a macho society exacerbate the problem. Edilberto F. Méndez Amador Likewise, in the first 46 days of the […]
Radical community photography in Hackney in the 1980s
The Rio cinema in Hackney, at the Stoke Newington end of Kingsland High St, has been there for as long as anyone can remember. Sean Sheehan I recall as a youngster, when there were other cinemas on the same street (the Rio was then called the Classic), that […]
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