“The brothers Karamazov” is extraordinary. Mini-narratives, encounters and conversations between the characters proliferate like vegetation in a botanist’s rainforest fantasy. They spawn new stories by way of background to another story which is itself an offshoot of what looks to be the main story. Sean Sheehan The reader […]
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Walking through Argentina’s urban labyrinth
Our journey to Buenos Aires from London began on a stuffy British Airways flight lasting fifteen very long hours. However almost as soon as we stepped foot on to Argentinean soil our acidic moods evaporated and we were captivated by the enveloping passion of what I consider to be the […]
Fear and superstition in Oaxaca
The historical origins of La Santa Muerte (Saint Death) in Mexico are obscure but the cult, now more popular than ever, has millions of followers. This strikes an unsettling chord with the country’s plague of murderous narco-related violence. Sean Sheehan Myriam Lamrani considers this confluence of the spiritual-poetic […]
Zoogenetics, large-scale production and demand
For hundreds of millions of poor rural households, livestock remain a key asset, often meeting multiple needs, and enabling livelihoods to be built in some of the world’s harshest environments. Roberto Salomón The livestock sector is undergoing dramatic changes as large-scale production expands in response to surging demand […]
A labour of scholarly love
If Herodotus is the ‘father of history’ then surely Strabo (c. 60 BC–c. AD 25), describing the physical past and present of his known world, deserves the same status for geography. Sean Sheehan Born more than half a millennium after Herodotus, Strabo documents three continents at a time […]
















