A train journey takes the author back to the settings of his childhood in Lancashire, only to discover that time has diminished the heroic landscapes of his memory, prompting a reflection on the distance between recollection and reality. Steve Latham Memory plays tricks. There were no coal mines […]
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Colombia, shadow of colonialism in modern tourism
Villa de Leyva preserves its colonial architecture while battling a frivolous tourism that pollutes its streets and displaces the local community, revealing the tension between historical heritage and careless modernity. Armando Orozco Tovar In this region, as in many in Colombia, the colonial period is never far from […]
Edvard Munch: A ship without a rudder
Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” is one of those paintings you probably cannot remember where and how you saw it for the first time. Sean Sheehan Like the “Mona Lisa” it has already and always been there and now, instantly logged when seen again, probably does not receive much […]
Politics, poetry and the pulse of protest: a late-night reflection
Andy Bungay hosts a weekend late-night radio show in Central and SW London – Riverside Radio DAB, which aims to take a deep conversational, post-prandial dive into ancient and modern culture wrapped around some broadly jazzy and folky music and poetry. Having a bop around the kitchen before settling on […]
Helga Paris loosens the chains
An interest in photography is being challenged by a steady diet of photobooks devoted to a photographer’s pet project that do little to provoke reflection beyond wondering how such banal work ever finds a publisher. Sean Sheehan A welcome relief is a new book devoted to the work […]
















