Slavoj Žižek makes the point, in his introduction to Michael Marder’s “Pyropolitics”, that always pointing to and blaming capitalism for the multifaceted antagonisms and urgencies besetting our world has the drawback of simplistically making the economy the sole culprit.   Sean Sheehan   The complexities calling for our attention are […]

In his introduction to his new translation of Chekov’s “Three sisters” Rory Mullarkey rightly draws a comparison between the early 20th century Russian play and Samuel Beckett’s mid-century “Waiting for Godot”: “Two masterpieces sit, like bookends of Modernism, with a half-century of horror between them”.   Sean Sheehan    And, […]