The key to commercial success for authors writing mainstream fiction in the West often comes down to their craft in maintaining narrative traction involving psychologically interesting characters. Sean Sheehan Emotional empathy is often established with one or more central character or, in the case of villains and psychopaths, […]
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William Howard Taft and his heavy chain
Many historians describe him as the jolly obese American president, who in spite of handling his condition with dignity, also wore it as a heavy chain around his neck. Silvio González The jokes about how he got stuck in his bathtub in the White House on the day […]
A trace for each face
Faces are part of the individual and collective imaginations. They are invented. This is especially so of those belonging to characters who have made a strong impression on others. Armando Orozco Tovar Faces also let us see people as we imagine them: by their actions and especially for […]
The urban palimpsests
The cover of the CD, Home, from electronic, drum and bass outfit, Rudimental, features the Hackney Peace Mural. Steve Latham I remember it being painted in 1985. I am surprised that it still exists and has not been painted over, in some act of so-called urban regeneration. The […]
Paper graveyards
“Paper graveyards” is a collection of essays by Eduardo Cadava, a professor at Princeton, that sees photography as invested with a migratory potential, the ability to shift away from itself and form new relations with other media. Sean Sheehan Cadava’s approach could be regarded with suspicion, another postmodernist […]